[mixité choisie] Dreaming disability justice together (BIPOC only)
Le mercredi 21 juin 2023, à 17h30.
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SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, #LB 145 (métr Guy)
This meeting is for folks who identify as BIPOC, but will be mainly centering queer and trans BIPOC disabled voices and experiences. (A note for BIPOC non-disabled, non-queer folks, thank you for being respectful and mindful of this centering. We invite you to be present and to co-conspire with us because as Eddie Ndopu put it so beautifully: “We need to shift the conversation from having allies for disability inclusion to allies in the dismantling of ableism… because ableism implicates both disabled and non-disabled people alike. Ableism will dehumanize disabled people, but ableism also strips non-disabled people of their own humanity. So, when you’re fighting against ableism as a non-disabled person, you’re not fighting for me as a disabled person. You are fighting for yourself… for a world that doesn’t reduce us to narrow conceptions of what our bodies should and shouldn’t do. You’re fighting for a world… that embraces all kinds of ways of being, a multiplicity of ways of showing up. You’re fighting for a world that is more innovative, for a world that is more loving, for a world that is more beautiful. And so, that kind of allyship that implicates who you are in the dismantling of ableism… feels like we are co-conspirators, that we’re in this together, and that I’m not being saved but that we are saving each other through a mutual recognition that this system, the society that is built on ableism, is not working for all of us.”
This space will be facilitated by Nelly Bassily. Nelly is a queer disability justice advocate and intersectional feminist, anti-racism, and sexual rights activist and media maker. Born to Egyptian parents in Tiohtià:ke (so called Montreal), immigration, diaspora, and identity deeply inform her activism. Nelly is also a writer, a documenter, a wanna-be singer and a single mom to a 2-year-old who teaches her everyday and in new ways what care work and community means."
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