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You wanna know how you'll know if you're doing disability justice? ... We won't be grateful to be included; we will want to set the agenda.

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Inclusion without power or leadership is tokenism.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

A Disability Justice framework understands that all bodies are unique and essential, that all bodies have strengths and needs that must be met.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

People like to say survivors of sexual violence make up false memories. But it’s far more common for people who perpetuate abuse to make up a false reality where they did nothing wrong.

Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to “Move On” From COVID" op-ed (2022)

Writing from bed is a time-honored disabled way of being an activist and a cultural worker. It's one the mainstream doesn't often acknowledge but whose lineage stretches from Frida Kahlo painting in bed to Grace Lee Boggs writing in her wheelchair at age 98.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

We have ancestral shame to heal. We have disabled lineages to honor. Let’s get to it.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

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