Disability Justice Movement

The disability justice movement is a social and political movement led by disabled individuals, aimed at challenging ableism and promoting the rights and inclusion of disabled people in society.

These are some of the ideas around disability justice that I admire, laid out by Sins Invalid, a disability justice organization.

• Leadership of the most impacted: emphasizes the importance of centering and prioritizing the voices and experiences of disabled individuals who are most marginalized and impacted by ableism both inside and outside the disability community. The leadership of these individuals is critical for creating effective and inclusive solutions to issues affecting the disability community.
• Interdependence: This principle emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing interdependence, where disabled individuals and their allies work together to meet their collective needs. This challenges the idea of independence as the ideal and recognizes the importance of community support and mutual aid.
• Recognizing wholeness and worth: embracing the diversity and complexity of disabled experiences and that their lives have "worth" whether or not they are able to contribute to the economy. 
• Sustainability and collective care: valuing rest, self-care, and community support, and recognizing that disability justice work is ongoing and requires long-term planning and sustainability.
• Cross-Disability and Cross-movement solidarity: recognizes the  solidarity and support across all types of disability. Disability justice work must be inclusive and accessible to all. It also emphasizes that disability justice work must be in solidarity with other movements and actively work towards building cross-movement relationships and collaborations.
• Collective access: recognizes the importance of access as a collective responsibility, rather than an individual burden. This means creating accessible spaces, practices, and policies that benefit everyone, and not just disabled individuals.
• Recognizing the legacy of systemic injustice: This principle recognizes the long history of systemic injustice and oppression faced by disabled individuals, and the need to acknowledge and address this legacy in disability justice work. This includes recognizing and addressing the role of eugenics, institutionalization, and other forms of ableist violence and oppression in shaping the experiences of disabled individuals today
• Intersectionality. recognizes and addresses the ways in which ableism intersects with other forms of oppression, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, and colonialism. Disability justice work must be intersectional and actively work to dismantle all forms of oppression.