DST 613 Module 1
How our communities can move beyond access to wholeness
People usually think of disability as an individual flaw or problem, rather than as something partly created by the world we live in. It is rare that people think about disability as a political experience or as encompassing a community full of rich histories, cultures and legacies
Towards Interdependcy: it has to be about justice not just inclusion, to move away from the "I am more like you than different, to love me for who I am" "Just because disabled people are in the room doesn’t mean there is no ableism (a set of beliefs that favors non-disabled people) or that people won’t pretend we’re invisible
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We need to acknowledge the difference without discriminating against it.
we need to look @ disability as one part of whe whole
Ableism is different for everyone, and indersectionality is rarly looked at: ie blind and fat!
The background theory
Community Organizing
The practice is shaped by the theory
premise 1: our values create our worldview
Fisher: 4 perspectives
Feminist perspective has made most grounds: took that women were oppressed, women looked @ traditional weaknesses & modified these to work better
marxisism = oppression of the poor
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premise 2: how change takes place