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This workshop invites participants to re-imagine accessibility using the framework of Disability Justice (DJ). In the U.S., accessibility is understood through the lens of legal compliance. How might we re-imagine accessibility so that it does not feel like we are simply ticking boxes off a checklist?
This workshop is intended for students, staff, faculty, and community members. As a framework, Disability Justice teaches us to center intersectionality and the leadership of those impacted. Building upon the Disability Rights Movement, Disability Justice embraces the messiness and complexities of disabled lives.
Emerging out of movement work, Disability Justice demands collective access and liberation for all disabled people. You can read the 10 principles of Disability Justice here. Drawing upon lessons from the COVID19 pandemic and the recent Immigrant Advocacy Conference, this workshop encourages participants to examine their relationship to disability, accessibility, and ableism.
This workshop will provide concrete tools and suggestions on how we can expansively reimagine accessibility.