"Disabled people have always existed, whether the word disability is used or not. To me, disability is not a monolith, nor is it a clear-cut binary of disabled and nondisabled. Disability is mutable and ever-evolving. Disability is both apparent and nonapparent. Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance, and joy. Disability is sociopolitical, cultural, and biological. Being visible and claiming a disabled identity brings risks as much as it brings pride." - Alice Wong, American disability rights activist
In this episode of Radicals for Good, we're discussing organizing with disabilities (visible and invisible) and how we can embody Disabled revolutionaries in our work with Tameka Citchen-Spruce, a disability justice advocate, independent media producer, author and national speaker who uses storytelling to amplify voices and challenge systems of exclusion.
Get out of your comfort zone & take action
Donate to #AutisticOutLoud documentary
Get involved with Detroit Disability Power
Get involved with Warriors on Wheels of Metro-Detroit
Further Learning
Learn about the 10 principles of disability justice
Learn more about #AutisticOutLoud film and watch the teaser: https://linktr.ee/autisticoutlouddocumentary
Follow Divas in the City TV on Instagram and YouTube
Living Unapologetically Media: www.tamekacitchenspruce.com
Read Tameka's book: Women in Leadership: From No to Yes, A Black Disabled Woman's Leadership Journey
Watch PBS documentary Renegades: Thomas Wiggins
Sources
Land Acknowledgement: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Brad Lomax: https://www.centerforlearnerequity.org/news/brad-lomax-uniting-the-civil-rights-and-disability-rights-communities/
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution: https://cripcamp.com/
Fannie Lou Hamer: https://19thnews.org/2023/07/fannie-lou-hamer-disability-voting-rights-activism/
Harriett Tubman: https://rootedinrights.org/why-dont-more-people-know-harriet-tubman-was-disabled/
Elias Hills: https://www.knowitall.org/video/former-slave-elias-hills-untold-story-palmetto-scene
Elias Hills testimony: https://www.scribd.com/doc/170718992/1-Testimony-Before-Congress-on-the-Activities-of-the-Ku-Klux-Klan
Fidel Castro source confirmed at Castro Center in Havana, Cuba
Revolution will be from my bed: https://diagnosisbedamned.com/2020/04/25/so-i-start-a-revolution-from-my-bed/
Intersectional disability justice: https://www.intersectional-disability-justice.org/en/intersectional-disability-justice-english/
Michigan disability rights resources: https://www.michigan.gov/disabilityresources
Trump admins war on disability: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-war-on-disability/
in office work: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/10/02/return-office-work-mandates-accommodate-ada-people-disabilities/70963365007/
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