Why Disability Justice is an Intersectional Imperative for Our Futures and Our Freedom
Event details
Date: November 4, 2024
Location:
On Campus, Rogalski Center
Speaker Lydia X. Z. Brown will be at the Rogalski Center Ballroom on November 4th to speak to the community. They are a queer, disabled, and East Asian advocate, organizer, attorney, strategist, and writer. Read the lecture description below for more details.
Why Disability Justice is an Intersectional Imperative for Our Futures and Our Freedom
Neurodivergent, crip, mad, and disabled people are already present in all of our communities. Yet we face the constant presence of pervasive ableism (disability prejudice and oppression), reinforced and intersecting with other forms of systemic injustice. Disabled people are working constantly to challenge the narratives that we do not belong in society, and to demand recognition and respect for disabled people's ways of knowing, being, learning, and relating. Disability justice analysis enables us to understand the necessary role of ableism in shaping social thought, research, and policy about race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation - and to challenge arbitrary notions of "normal" and "wellness" that undergird oppressive systems and influence our everyday lives. Disability Justice principles and practices offer radical and revolutionary ways of reimagining our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the communities where we live, work, and learn. Disability Justice goes beyond the frameworks of equity, inclusion, and diversity, and challenges us to incorporate multimodality, flexibility, and interdependence into our workplaces, research agendas, technologies, design, and communities.
Read the biography for Lydia X. Z. Brown here.
This event is hosted by Ambrosians Working for Social Justice (AWSJ), a faculty-led initiative that promotes education and action for human rights and for the fair and responsible use of resources.
Since 2004, AWSJ has sponsored an annual lecture series, bringing national and international speakers to campus, to highlight and discuss some of the most important social and economic justice issues of the day.
