FOR CHANGEMAKERS
Organizing at the Intersections
The tools, articles, and resources on this page represent guidance from the movement for Black Disabled liberation on how—and why—to organize at the intersections of issues, and for Black disabled liberation.
If you are an organizer, you’ll also find relevant resources on our page, Powerbuilding Tools and Resources. If you are a donor, we believe content across this site will be helpful to you—and we’ve gathered funder-specific resources on our page, Funder Tools and Resources. And if you have any items to add to this list—or wonderings to share—please visit our Contribute page.
Guidance and Explainers
- Grounding Movements In Disability Justice [Webinar] (Azza Altiraifi, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Dorian Taylor, Dustin Gibson, Talila A. Lewis, and Nirmala Erevelles)
- Cripping The Resistance: No Revolution Without Us (Disability Visibility Project)
- Ableism and our Movements (PeoplesHub)
- Identifying and Rejecting Ableism in our Movement Spaces (Medium)
- Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice (Learning for Justice)
- It’s Time To Listen To Black Disabled People (Essence)
- Disability Rights Are Civil Rights (Pod for the Cause)
- Yup. Non-profit culture and performative activism perpetuate ableism and anti-Blackness (The Black Youth Project)
- Black Feminist Disability Justice Frameworks (Black Feminist Future)
Tools and Resources
- Working Definition of Ableism (Talila Lewis)
- 10 Principles of Disability Justice (Sins Invalid)
- Skin, Tooth, and Bone: A Disability Justice Primer (Sins Invalid)
- Ableist Language
- Disability Justice: An Audit Tool (Stacey Park Milbern and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
- Free Audit Templates (radical access mapping project)
- 5 Things We’ve Learned about Leading Retreats Online (PeoplesHub)
- Creating Transformative Online Space (PeoplesHub)
Case Studies and Examples of Intersectional Organizing
- “Now is the time to start to live it” (The Forge)
- Cop City Is a Disability Justice Issue, Too (Yes Magazine)
- Disability Solidarity: Completing The ‘Vision For Black Lives’ (Huffington Post)
- End the War on Black Health and Black Disabled People (M4BL)
- Disability Solidarity: Completing The ‘Vision For Black Lives’ (Harriet Tubman Collective)
CESSA—Collaborating for Racial Equity and Disability Justice (Disability Lead)