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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.

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

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Inclusion without power or leadership is tokenism.

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

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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.

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.

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

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