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Everyday Discrimination, Everyday Anti-Ableism:

Everyday Discrimination, Everyday Anti-Ableism:. Fighting Oppression as Providers . Mia Mingus , Creating Change 2009. Introductions. SAFER SPACE GUIDELINES. RESPECT YOURSELF. RESPECT OTHERS. 1. Take care of yourself 2. Ask for what you need Tell me to be louder or clearer!.

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Everyday Discrimination, Everyday Anti-Ableism:

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  1. Everyday Discrimination, Everyday Anti-Ableism: Fighting Oppression as Providers

  2. Mia Mingus, Creating Change 2009

  3. Introductions

  4. SAFER SPACE GUIDELINES RESPECTYOURSELF RESPECTOTHERS 1. Take care of yourself 2. Ask for what you need • Tell me to be louder or clearer! 1. Speak for yourself • No outing people • Consent to share 2. Let others speak for themselves 3. No assuming, erasing, minimizing 4. Interrupt oppression …respectfully

  5. What do we mean by “disabled” or “disability?” • Disability • Civil Rights, Social, and Cultural Models • Disabled = Identity

  6. Oppression Privilege

  7. ABLE ISM Definitions • Prejudice and discrimination based on disabled status. • “Ableism is the idea that having a difference or disability is bad.” -Galen Smith • The over-privileging of certain kinds of abilities. • -Parallel to sexism as over-privileging male gender

  8. Disability Justice

  9. Dignity of Risk Robert Perske

  10. Disability and Workers (Side Note)

  11. Checking assumptions…and labeling versus identity

  12. Ideas 5 Eyes of Oppression Institution-al Inter-Personal Internal-ized Isolation Modified from Mel King, YouthBuild

  13. Ideas

  14. Institution-al

  15. Institutionalization

  16. Inter-Personal

  17. Common Sense As Oppression

  18. Internal-ized

  19. Oppression and TRAUMA

  20. Isolation

  21. Intersecting Oppressions

  22. Intersections of Oppressions The gawkers never get it right. They’ve turned away from me, laughed, thrown rocks, pointed their fingers, quoted Bible verses, called me immoral and depraved, tried to heal me, swamped me in pity. Their hatred snarls into me, and often I can’t separate the homophobia from the ableism from the transphobia. The gawkers never get it right, but what I want to know is this: will you? -Eli Clare, Gawking, Gaping, Staring, in Queer Crips, p. 214

  23. Ideas about responding…

  24. Responding as an Ally or Supporter…

  25. CONSENT!

  26. Advocacy, or Self-Advocacy?

  27. Power, Privilege, and Response

  28. Is now the time and place?

  29. Disability Justice and the Other Eyes of Oppression

  30. PISSR Becomes PISSAR People in Search of Safe Restrooms & Accessible! Trans & Queer Students Parents & Women Disabled People

  31. The Autistic Spectrum: What is it? “If you’ve met one person with autism – you’ve met one person with autism." -Stephen Shore Different brain processing of some or all of the following which is defined as or experienced as disabling*: Secondary/overlap: PTSD Allergies Food sensitivities Depression/Anxiety Physical Attention, Etc. Sensory Cognitive SENSORY OVERLOAD Emotional Social Communication Ian Ruotsala

  32. Autism and Access Use passions & strengths! -Sensory preferences for information/communication -Detail-to-whole, metaphors, pop culture Sensory reduction -Earplugs, Hats, etc. Make norms explicit! -Stimming allowed! -Social interpreters -Alone Time -Don’t be an ass (jokes/sarcasm) -Food -Structure! With some flexibility

  33. “I prefer to be subtle”

  34. What are you thinking about?

  35. Gender reaches into disability; Disability wraps around class; Class strains against abuse; Abuse snarls into sexuality; Sexuality folds on top of race … Everything finally piling into a single human body. … Where to start? … with the memory of how my body felt swimming in the river, Chinook fingerlings nibbling at my toes. There are a million ways to start, but how do I reach beneath the skin? Eli Clare, Exile & Pride, 123, 1999

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