Thread by @kawaiilovesarah

for those of you playing along at home with the disability policy course, the Intro to EDI and Disability Justice (Week 3) lesson is posted!💜

this one has a LOT of beloved community collaborators. i'll give you a summary [thread 🧵🤍]

2/ ok so far be it from me to claim i can explain ALL OF DJ in under an hour [70min runtime] so i decided to ask some of my favourite grassroots cds/mad gang activists for their "heartfelt knee-jerk definition" of disability justice, as non-academic as possible and they delivered

3/ we had "canonical" takes from @sinsinvalid @PattyBerne and Naomi Ortiz, more canon from @thellpsx and @projectlets 💜

and then beloved community takes from @HannahntheWolf @daniellelorenz @AdamHubrig @alexhaagaard @LabergeElaine @AnnGagne @travisclau & @_roseyesha

4/ i used the schizophrenia thread from this weekend as a "showing not telling" example about dj acting as a counter-system to the systems designed for exclusion. this slide summarizes 10 minutes of ranting about healthcare policy and mobilizing mad warning systems.

5/ then we took up the readings from @sinsinvalid and @alexhaagaard and we talked about dj as a verb-state: you can't so much "show" disability justice" as "be" or "practice" disability justice.

it's hard transformative work we do for ourselves, on purpose. 🤍

6/ WHERE DO WE ORGANIZE? These are my faves: @sinsinvalid @djnontario @projectlets @fireweedHJ @NDPostgrads @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @academicvoices @QueerDisability @Mad_In_America @MadMediaPod @MadCovid @AcademicsClass @madness_press @WeAreDisabled @ShoestringCdn

7/ next Monday's lesson is INTRO TO MAD STUDIES & DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION. this is my absolute bread and butter so i'm thrilled to lecture on this. see you soon~ 🤍💜