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Celebrate Disability Justice Week 2022

The Center for Cultural & Inclusive Excellence and Accessibility Resources departments invite you to join us for the 3^rd Annual Disability Justice Week: Trailhead to the Mountaintop: From Awareness to Advocacy and Activism. Disability Justice Week centralizes the intersectionality of the disability experience through a social justice framework, inspired by the 10 principles led by Sins Invalid. Please see details below for more info!

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

From the trailhead to the Mountaintop: Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Pt. 1

11:00am-12:30pm

Keynote Speaker: ChrisTiana ObeySumner

Building 7

Thursday, November 3, 2022

From the trailhead to the Mountaintop: Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Pt. 2

1:30-3:00pm

Presenter: ChrisTiana ObeySumner
Building 7

Friday, November 4, 2022

Film & Discussion: Rising Phoenix

Facilitated by: Dr. Tylir McKenzie

11:00am-1:30pm

Building 7

For more information visit https://ccie.highline.edu/disability-justice-week/

Sponsored by the Center for Cultural & Inclusive Excellence,

Accessibility Resources and Center for Leadership & Service

About Disability Justice

Patty Berne, the Co-Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid and one of the people whose work and words informed the conceptualization of disability justice, the framework was a reaction to the ways that the US disability rights movement “invisibilized the lives of peoples who lived at intersecting junctures of oppression – disabled people of color, immigrants with disabilities, queers with disabilities, trans and gender non-conforming people with disabilities, people with disabilities who are houseless, people with disabilities who are incarcerated, people with disabilities who have had their ancestral lands stolen, amongst others.”

What is Disability Justice? and its ten principles (Sins Invalid)

Online Resources

Highline College Access Services
Access Services at Highline College supports and assists students with disabilities with campus and classroom accommodations. In addition, Access Services and Highline Human Resources collaborate to provide reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants.
Sins Invalid - An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility
"Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body, developing provocative work where paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities." From About page
Project LETS
"A national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence. We specialize in building just, responsive, and transformative peer support collectives and community mental health care structures that do not depend on state-sanctioned systems that trap our folks in the medical/prison-industrial complex."
Washington State Department of Health: Disability Organizations
Lists nonprofit disability-related organizations and agencies in Washington State, You can filter by county, demographic group, disability community, and resources & services.
ADA.gov
Federal government web site with law/regulations, design standards, technical assistance materials, and enforcement for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Disability History Museum
"The Disability History Museum hosts a Library of virtual artifacts, Education curricula, and Museum exhibits. These programs are designed to foster research and study about the historical experiences of people with disabilities and their communities."
Deaf Poets Society
An online literary journal that publishes poetry, prose, cross-genre work, reviews of Deaf or disability-focused books, interviews/miscellany, and art by D/deaf and/or disabled writers and artists.
Highline College Counseling Center
Enrolled and registered students may use the services of the Counseling Center free of charge.