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There are many key issues in the 2020 Presidential elections - and the rights of People with Disabilities appears to be one that is shared by a large percentage of the American public.

Majority of Voters Have Disability Connections - Respect Ability 85% of registered voters say it is very or somewhat important to them that candidates have accessible events and websites for people with disabilities.

Love, solidarity, and disability pride.

For National Coming Out Week we are highlighting LGBTQIA+ writers, activists and content creators over on our social media pages (Facebook and Instagram) @ UA Disability Culture.

Today we are highlighting Mia Mingus. Mia is a writer, educator and community organizer for disability justice and transformative justice. She is a q***r physically disabled korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. She works for community, interdependency and home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love. As her work for liberation evolves and deepens, her roots remain firmly planted in ending sexual violence.

Mia is a founding and core-member of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC), a local collective working to build and support transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse that do not rely on the state (i.e. police, prisons, the criminal legal system). She believes in prison abolition and urges all activists and organizers to critically and creatively think beyond the non-profit industrial complex.

Mia recently co-founded with disability justice activists Sandy Ho and Alice Wong. “Access Is Love aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love, instead of a burden or an after-thought. It is an initiative to raise awareness about accessibility and encourage people to incorporate access in their everyday practices and lives.” You can watch the short video here by Alice Wong all about the campaign https://youtu.be/J_DyjEcMHdI and head to their website to learn more, check out the online store, and access resources & readings about disability justice https://www.disabilityintersectionalitysummit.com/access-is-love

You can read more from Mia on their website https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/ or through her social media accounts .mingus.

[image description: a black and white photo of Mia sitting on a chair in the woods, she is smiling. Text on the right reads “Because I would argue that ‘disability justice’ is simply another term for love. And so is ‘solidarity,’ ‘access,’ and ‘access intimacy.’ I would argue that our work for liberation is simply a practice of love—one of the deepest and most profound there is. And the creation of this space is an act of love.”]

Check out this amazing episode of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility Project. It is about crip aging.

Ep 11: Crip Bodies and Crip Aging Today’s episode is about crip bodies and crip aging. Alice speaks with Patty Berne and Leroy Moore, two people who have a lot of wisdom to share about their bodies and aging. How do we listen…

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Publishing Has Failed Autistic & Disabled People — Here's How To Fix It In December of 2017, autistic advocate and YouTuber Amythest Schaber started the hashtag as a reaction to the widely criticized memoir To Siri With Love by Judith Newman, a book written by a neurotypical woman about her relationship wi…

H/T Alice Wong


We are living in dystopian times!

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The House Health Plan Makes Your Genes a Preexisting Condition When does “preexisting” turn to “existing?” More sophisticated and readily available genetic tests make that area greyer and greyer.

Tears, fear, and frustration. I am thinking about my fellow sick, crip, chronically ill family today.

House Passes Measure to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act After weeks of struggle, House Republicans narrowly passed hard-fought legislation to repeal and replace large parts of the Affordable Care Act.

"Disability Pride: Moving Past Stereotype" workshop this Wednesday, May 3rd, 6:00pm-8:00pm at Cal Poly (MPR). Free deserts!

An important piece about disability and race.

Flexin’ My Melanin & Talking About #DisabilityTooWhite at the NABSW Conference - Ramp Your Voice! I took a hiatus this month from blogging to prepare and attend the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) conference in National Harbor, Maryland.  It was the first time I attended the conference, as well as presented about to my social work colleagues.  I was ecsta...

This is so necessary. Thank you Alice Wong for sharing this.

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