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All the Weight of Our Dreams: on Living Racialized Autism

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All the Weight of Our Dreams: on Living Racialized Autism

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All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism [Brown, Network, Inc., Autism Women's, Ashkenazy, E., Onaiwu, Morénike Giwa] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism

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Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations of Cultural Interventions

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Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations of Cultural Interventions

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Disability Studies diverge from the medical model of disability (which argues that disabled subjects can and should be "fixed") to view disability as socially constructed, much in the same way other identities are. The work of reading black and disabled bodies is not only recovery work, but work that requires a willingness to deconstruct the systems that would keep those bodies in separate spheres. This pivotal volume uncovers the misrepresentations of black disabled bodies and demonstrates how those bodies transform systems and culture. Drawing on key themes in Disability Studies and African American Studies, these collected essays complement one another in interesting and dynamic ways, to forge connections across genres and chronotopes, an invitation to keep blackness and disability in conversation. With an analysis of disability as a result of war, studies of cognitive impairment and slavery in fiction, representations of slavery and violence in photography, deconstructions of illness (cancer and AIDS) narratives, comparative analyses of black and Latina/o and black and African subjects, analysis of treatments of disability in hip-hop, and commentary on disability, blackness, and war, this volume shows that the historical lines of demarcation in this field are permeable and should be challenged.

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Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (Forecaast; V. 21)

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Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (Forecaast; V. 21) [Bell, Christopher M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (Forecaast; V. 21)

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Dreaming Disability Justice

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access" -- access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure -- in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty-gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour.

Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of colour are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

Leah knows that the world we deserve is a world shaped by the honest, messy, skillful genius of disabled queer femmes of color. Reading this book allows you to live inside the gorgeous, uncomfortable, emergent, compassionate world that disabled femmes of color have been making all along. Leah cares for us all with this work, but not in the apologetic, default, mommy mode you may be trained to expect. This care is the survivor-sourced, survivor-accountable, saltysweet truthtelling we need to (guess what?) SURVIVE. -Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of M Archive and Spill, co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha has written a brave and brilliant book that captures the messy gestation and wildly liberating vision of disability justice. With passionate integrity, she tells the collective story of a movement that transforms the idea of care into a force capable of unraveling all the braided injustices of our lives. -Aurora Levins Morales, author of Medicine Stories and Kindling: Writings On the Body

Page after page, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha documents the necessity, power, and sheer brilliance of disability justice. Be prepared for her words, stories, and political thinking to shake up what you know about care and access, revolutionary dreaming, and present-day resilience. -Eli Clare, author of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile

We have mad crip dreams. In those dreams there exists a decolonized, liberated future in which none of our bodies and lives are disposable. With Care Work, Leah LakshmiPiepzna-Samarasinha reminds us that turning these dreams into radical practices have already been done, are happening right now within disability justice movements, and will continue to build a future where we are all free. This book is a touchstone for our journey. -Qwo-Li Driskill, author of Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory

An instant classic, Care Work is equal parts on-the-ground dispatch from the disability justice movement and practical field guide to liberatory access. Rather than something to be begrudgingly tacked on, accessibility, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha shows us, might be joyous and collective. - Smithsonian Magazine

As a Black disabled activist, cultural worker, and collector of art, books and music by people of color with disabilities for more than twenty years, I'm excited and thirsty for Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work. As one of the original thinkers of Disability Justice, I'm overjoyed that artists and activists like Leah are writing books like this one that helps water the roots of Disability Justice. This book is coming from the bed, the streets and on stages that Leah has spoke, taught, performed and struggled on -- thats why it's so accessible and brings lived knowledge into our outdated, stiff institutions and activist movements. In this era of hyper capitalism, toxic hypermasculinity, and White supremacy, we desperately need Care Work. -Leroy F Moore Jr. , co-founder of Sins Invalid, co-founder of National Black Disability Coalition

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a collection profoundly necessary at this moment . .. the essays share a fundamental hypothesis: to achieve social justice, ableism must be destroyed. Personal narratives and accounts of organizing are voiced from Black and brown and queer disabled people, radically reimagining the ways our society is structured, uplifting visions and models for care webs that create collective access. - Broadly (Best Books of the Year)

Leah writes brilliantly about sick/disabled/mad/neurodivergent genius, collective care work, and all-too-familiar patterns of abuse and trauma that happen even/especially in radical spaces/marginalized people's communities. Care Work is a necessary intervention for those in queer/trans people-of-color spaces and white disability spaces alike, but more importantly, it's an offering of love to all of us living at multiple margins, between spaces of recognition and erasure, who desperately need what Leah has to say. This book is an invitation to dream and to build and to love, as slowly and imperfectly and unevenly as we need to. -Lydia X. Z. Brown, co-editor of All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism

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Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionIn their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah ...

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Disability Studies Quarterly ( DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the multidisciplinary field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society. (ISSN: 1041-5718; eISSN: 2159-8371)

Note from the editors:
As the Co-Editors of DSQ, we embrace the task of generating intellectual debate and meaningful conversation around peer reviewed scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies. DSQ is uniquely positioned to engage research and writing across disciplines. Disability Studies scholarship has a firm foundation in the liberal arts while also having practical application to the lived experience of disabled people. We also value strong and creative interventions in the applied fields, recognizing these fields as vital to Disability Studies.

Announcements

Vol 41, No 4 (2021): Fall 2021

Table of Contents

Prefatory Matter

Section I: Kinship

Section II: Place

Section III: Knowledge Making

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disability studies; crip theory; disability culture; disability society; disability history; disability literature; disability education; disability art; feminist / black / postcolonial disability studies; mad studies; ableism; disablism

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Disability Studies Quarterly ( DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities.

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Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses and Intersectionality 

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Krip Hop was founded by Leroy F. Moore Jr., an African American writer, poet, community activist who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Moore was born in New York in 1967 to an activist father loosely connected to the Black Panthers. His upbringing sensitized Moore to the challenges faced by African Americans and the disabled.As a youth, Moore discovered that most people had little knowledge of the historical impact of disabled African Americans. This led him to begin research, initially in the music industry.

Moore first spotlighted disabled hip hop artists in the early 2000s. He co-produced and co-hosted a three-part series on what he called „Krip Hop" for a Berkeley, California radio station. The „Krip Hop" series appeared on KPFA's Pushing Limits, which focuses on news, arts, and culture for the disabled community. The series' popularity inspired Moore to create Krip Hop Nation for disabled musicians, since little cultural work or music by people with disabilities had been recognized. „The Krip-Hop movement really makes the pain of the people feel visible", Moore said. „It goes a lot deeper than what people can see.

The primary goal of Krip Hop Nation is to increase awareness in music and media outlets of the talents, history and rights of people with disabilities in the hip-hop industry. In an interview, Moore expressed the hope that by listening to his music the audience would understand the need to question authority and the information provided to them. He said he wanted his listeners to learn about their community and to become open to all people. Issues such as racism and sexism are commonly discussed, and Moore hoped that people would examine possible ableism in their attitudes. According to Moore, Krip Hop Nation goes beyond producing music and the bling-bling associated with hip hop; the movement is about advocacy, education and overcoming oppression. For Moore the movement has sought to reclaim negative terms associated with the disabled (such as „crazy", „lame", „retarded" and „cripple"), using them to shock people into understanding and respecting the disabled African American community. Krip Hop Nation addresses discrimination against disabled artists in hip hop by publishing articles and hosting events, lectures and workshops. It has over 300 members worldwide. Moore has explained that „Krip Hop" is a play on „Hip Hop." Although the „Krip" part of the name refers to „crippled", it is spelled with a „k" to avoid association with the Crips.

Krip-Hop Nation Early Stages & Big Achievements:
2003 Leroy meets disabled hip-hop artists on MySpace
2004 Leroy met face to face with Rob Da Noize Temple and Preechman in Brooklyn, NY
2004 Leroy met face to face with Keith Jones at the DNC in Boston
2005 Leroy and Keith Jones performed at the World Stage in L.A.
2006 Pushing Limits on KPFA Radio in Berkeley did a three part series on Hip-Hop & Disability/Deaf
2006 Leroy recorded Krip-Hop in Rob Da Noize Temple's home studio in Brooklyn, NY
2007 Krip-Hop Nation's first mixtape CD
2009 First public event of Krip-Hop Nation at UC Berkeley called Diversifying Hip-Hop: Homo-Hop & Krip-Hop
2010 First festival Krip-Hop performed at DADAFest, Liverpool, UK
2016 Krip-Hop Nation went to South Africa
2019 Krip-Hop Nation host Disabled African Musician Bay Area tour
2020 Three Krip-Hop artists did the theme song for Netflix documentary about the Paralympics

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Laboring in a private way.

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Posted on January 8, 2016

Any national movement we build around child sexual abuse cannot only protest in the streets and halls of government or articulate a passionate political analysis. It must also be able to respond to the real and messy realities of child sexual abuse when it happens in our families and communities; we must respond in ways that do not perpetuate the conditions that create those realities. We cannot only resist the world we do not want; we must also build the world we long for.

The Challenge: One of the greatest obstacles to successfully ending child sexual abuse is our collective inability to imagine a world without abuse. This is true whether it comes to believing that healing and accountability are possible-a common consequence of trauma, oppression and violence-or that child sexual abuse can even be stopped, let alone ended. The movement does not lack for brilliant analysis or compelling work. We lack the tools and resources for people to take action when actual incidents of child sexual abuse occur. People are scared, unsupported and often do not know what to do, and this absence of response mechanisms ultimately undermines our collective work.

The Solution: Cultivate a culture of hope and possibility in the movement to end child sexual abuse. The Living Bridges Project brings a force of creativity, inspiration and determination to combat the fear and isolation that surround people who are faced with responding to incidents of child sexual abuse. People need to see that the solutions are out there in order to have hope and stay invested in the work.

The Strategy: The Living Bridges Project will collect, document and publicize the stories of people-from all walks of life-who have responded to child sexual abuse in their families or communities. By documenting stories of how people have attempted to respond to child sexual abuse in ways that are generative instead of destructive, this project hopes to demonstrate that every single day, in all kinds of ways, everyday people are working to respond to child sexual abuse. By providing examples of strategies, tactics and tools that are approachable and accessible-including both what has worked and what has not-the project offers a resource of inspiration, creativity, hope and possibility that can help to buoy work that is all too often saturated in grief, rage, trauma and fear. It is by inspiring this hope that we will bring more people into the movement.

The Living Bridges Project also hopes to reveal the many conditions that allow for child sexual abuse to happen and continue, as well as the conditions that support generative and transformative responses, even if they were not successful. Some of the stories collected may also reflect the damage done by both state interventions (i.e. breaking family connections, re-traumatization, invasion and incarceration), and community interventions (i.e. vigilantism, exile, denial, intimidation, shame and blame). By so doing, we are building space for different and more complex narratives that can counter prevailing strategies that have not brought us concretely closer to ending child sexual abuse.

Mia Mingus is a writer, public speaker, community educator and organizer working for disability justice and transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse. She is a queer physically disabled Korean woman transracial and transnational adoptee. She works for community, interdependency and home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love. As her work for liberation evolves and deepens, her roots remain firmly planted in ending sexual violence. Mia is a core-member of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC), a local collective working to build and support transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse that do not rely on the state (i.e. police, prisons, the criminal legal system). She believes in prison abolition and urges all activists to critically and creatively think beyond the non-profit industrial complex. Her writings can be found on her blog, Leaving Evidence.

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Posted on January 8, 2016 Any national movement we build around child sexual abuse cannot only protest in the streets and halls of government or articulate a passionate political analysis. It must also be able to respond to the real and messy realities of child sexual abuse when it happens in our families and communities; we must respond in ways that do not perpetuate the conditions that create those realities.

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"Decarcerating Disability is a groundbreaking feminist study of the affinities, interrelations, and contradictions between prison abolition and psychiatric deinstitutionalization. Emphasizing the need for a more expansive field of critical carceral studies, Liat Ben-Moshe compellingly demonstrates the important lessons we can discover through serious engagements with radical disability movements. Scholars and activists alike should read this book without delay!"

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- Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz

"Provocative, original, and timely, this collection reveals inextricable links between disability and incarceration. Each study of confinement places disability in sustained dialogue with broader forces and identities, including race, gender, sexuality and class. Accessible prose and collaborative projects attest to the transformative power of activist scholarship."

- Susan Burch, Associate Professor of American Studies and former director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Middlebury College, USA

"This book reaches beyond the scope of strategies-focused compliance with the ADA, and through initially positioning chapters that disrupt able-ist curriculum and pedagogy, the editors emphasize socially responsible curriculum and universally accessible design..... The overall effect is that the reader is not immediately focused on compliance with the bare-minimum of federal policy, and is instead treated, first, to the ideas of those who think beyond compliance."

- Susan Baglieri, Teachers College, Columbia University

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Disability Studies, Prison Abolition | Liat Ben-Moshe

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"Decarcerating Disability is a groundbreaking feminist study of the affinities, interrelations, and contradictions between prison abolition and psychiatric deinstitutionalization. Emphasizing the need for a more expansive field of critical carceral studies, Liat Ben-Moshe compellingly demonstrates the important lessons we can discover through serious engagements with radical disability movements.

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Darren Walker's opening remarks for "Rights Now: Reimagining Justice in the 21st Century", where he discusses race, inequality, voting rights and human rights. 

Learn more: www.fordfoundation.org/rightsnow

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Disability is a common human experience, 20% of Americans have some type of disability. Many disabilities are hidden (such as mental health, intellectual disabilities, autism, chronic illness, traumatic brain injury...). And many people acquire disabilities at some point in their lives through accident, illness or aging. Every organization and group includes people with disabilities.

Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term "Intersectionality" to describe the experience of living with multiple identities (gender, race, culture, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, etc). We recognize that while there has been more conversation about some intersections (like race and gender) there have been other experiences that are often overlooked, even in conversations about equity (such as the experience of people of color who have disabilities). There is a growing body of research illustrating specific disadvantages experienced by people of color with disabilities. This video features local people of color sharing about their experiences with the disability community.

FISA Foundation, The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation are partnering to strengthening our work at the intersection of race and disability, and to better address the needs of people of color with disabilities. We're excited to invite you to learn along with us in these upcoming free programs!

Inside-out work: Embedding racial equity in organizational culture

Wednesday, May 26, 2-3:30 ET

In recent years, many organizations have expressed a commitment to racial equity and justice and taken important first steps. Truly integrating this commitment into the fabric of a nonprofit's mission takes leadership, intentionality, and tangible, practical work. The journey requires authenticity, vulnerability, and a willingness to make mistakes, learn and do better. Please join us for this conversation between Michelle McMurray, Vice President of Program and Community Engagement at The Pittsburgh Foundation, and Tricia Gadson, CEO of Macedonia FACE, about what it takes to embed equity into organizational culture. Speakers will share progress that organizations have made in this area and note challenges associated with this work. REGISTER!

Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color and Students with Disabilities

June 8, 2-3:30pm ET

In schools across the United States, Black students and other student of color are being harshly punished, arrested and issued citations at school for behavior that is not very different from white students. Students with disabilities are being excluded from the classroom through suspensions and expulsions and referred to the police for manifestations of their disabilities. And students of color who have disabilities experience compounded harms of racism and ableism in schools.

Students with disabilities are referred to juvenile justice at rates 5 times higher than students without disabilities.

Pennsylvania has the 2nd highest arrest rate in the country for Black students.

45% of Black boys and 26% of Black girls that Pittsburgh Public School Police refer to juvenile justice have disabilities.

Most of the infractions that result in criminal charges are minor and do not threaten school safety: being "disruptive," using "offensive" language, arguments where no one is injured. These patterns of over-policing further the myth that students of color engage in actions that are more dangerous than their white peers, which is unsupported by data. When police become involved in non-criminal disciplinary matters, the consequences for students, particularly students of color and those with disabilities can be profound and long-lasting. REGISTER!

(Recent event) Fostering Cultural Humility in Disability Services

Description: This workshop provided tools and strategies to increase multicultural awareness, knowledge, and the skills necessary to effectively work with and relate to ethnically and culturally diverse clients receiving disability services. Topics covered include intersectionality, disability justice and advocacy, implicit bias, cross-cultural communication, and microaggressions. Cultural Humility was introduced as a process to help build authentic cross-cultural relationships and will provide a culturally relevant strategic approach to reducing disparities. Presented by Dr. Channing Moreland, Director of the Wellness Pavilion at the University of Pittsburgh Community Engagement Center in Homewood.

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Funding Opportunity: Expanding Disability Inclusion and Access in Southwestern Pennsylvania

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Disability is a common human experience, 20% of Americans have some type of disability. Many disabilities are hidden (such as mental health, intellectual disabilities, autism, chronic illness, traumatic brain injury...). And many people acquire disabilities at some point in their lives through accident, illness or aging. Every organization and group includes people with disabilities.

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy is an accessible book for children to learn about systemic racism and racist behavior. For the awkward questions white and non-black parents don't know how to answer, this book is an essential guide to help support communication on how to dismantle racism amongst our youngest generation.

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OUR VISION

Sins Invalid recognizes that we will be liberated as whole beings-as disabled, as queer, as brown, as black, as gender non-conforming, as trans, as women, as men, as non-binary gendered- we are far greater whole than partitioned. We recognize that our allies emerge from many communities and that demographic identity alone does not determine one's commitment to liberation.

Sins Invalid is committed to social and economic justice for all people with disabilities - in lockdowns, in shelters, on the streets, visibly disabled, invisibly disabled, sensory minority, environmentally injured, psychiatric survivors - moving beyond individual legal rights to collective human rights.

Our stories, imbedded in analysis, offer paths from identity politics to unity amongst all oppressed people, laying a foundation for a collective claim of liberation and beauty.

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Sins Invalid is a disability justice performance project that centers people of color, queers, nonbinary and trans people with disabilities.

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I have designed the pages of this website to offer a revised and updated take on the original article outlining White Supremacy characteristics, written in 1999 when I was working in collaboration with my late colleague and mentor Kenneth Jones. While I wrote the words on the pages that became the White Supremacy Culture article all those years ago in 1999, I do not consider the original article or this website my work. I feel a sense of stewardship rather than ownership. The article was informed by my decade of experience facilitating racial equity workshops and work, starting with my original colleague the inestimable James Williams and followed by a 12-year partnership with Kenneth. I was deeply steeped in my own learning curve over the course of that decade as a result of my work with these two as well as many other colleagues who are named on the About page. In addition, I was fortunate to be mentored by Sharon Martinas, who was organizing the Challenging White Supremacy workshop at that time; Sharon was the one who advised me to include antidotes. I also attended a Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond workshop (one of many I was lucky to attend). This workshop was co-facilitated by Daniel Buford, a lead trainer at PISAB at the time the original article was written. You will see asterisks next to the sections of the original article (and here as well) informed by his teaching.

I did not know at the time I wrote the article that it would have such relevance over so many years. I never saw it as a free-standing piece; Kenneth and I included it as part of a much longer workbook that we designed and created to support our workshop curriculum and facilitation. People who came to our workshops then copied it and distributed it and put it on this new phenomenon called the internet. The article began to develop its own legs. I feel the power of the article has nothing to do with me as the author (and you will see why I say that on the Characteristics page) and everything to do with our shared desire to both understand and transgress white supremacy culture.

I want to be clear that this website is offering one way of understanding white supremacy culture, not the way. May this be a small contribution to a larger understanding.

Many other people have been and are writing about white supremacy culture; you will find links to many of them on this website. You will also find a list of some of those resources on the What Is It? page.

My hope is that this website offers something useful and that you, the reader, take what you find and develop it further. Please take whatever wisdom you find here and make it grow, correct whatever mistakes you find, create something deeper, wiser, better, and put it out in the world to help us all.

My goal in offering this website is to contribute to our shared anti-racist racial justice commitment. My hope is that this website is an organizing and justice building tool, one that helps us live into a collective vision of nourishment, resourcing, and cherishing ourselves and each other as we dream, build, stumble, get back up again, and cultivate compassion on our way together.

White supremacy culture is a devastating force in all our lives, used by ruling class power brokers to maintain vast and violent structural inequality (thank you Chris Crass). I will also say, with deep regret, that even those of us who are movement builders get confused about the difference between a tool and a weapon. I ask that we avoid weaponizing this information on the , along with the Characteristics page.
And... page that houses many of the different and ingenious ways that people have taken the original article, adapted it to a particular field, illustrated it, added to and revised it. I am so grateful for the creativity and brilliance that so many people and organizations have brought to this project. I close the website with a Joy page, where I include, with your help, all the ways we foster joy with and for each other as we resist, transgress, transform, liberate, and thrive.
If you click on the buttons below or on the Characteristics Page, you will find individual pages that take an in-depth look at some of the characteristics of white supremacy culture, including a few additional characteristics to those named in the original article. I have revised and updated the characteristics to incorporate more of an intersectional lens. I have added stories, poems, art, as well as links to other resources, all in service of a deeper dive and multiple ways to interact with and explore the characteristics' nuances and complexities.

While I describe these characteristics separately or in groups, they never stand alone. I have pulled them apart to help us understand them better and they reinforce each other rather than act in isolation.

I also include a page of Racial Equity Principles developed by DismantlingRacismWorks

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series“Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man”“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins...

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Disability Visibility: First-person stories from the twenty-first century

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Disability Visibility: First-person stories from the twenty-first century

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ONE OF THE PROGRESSIVE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent-but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

From Harriet McBryde Johnson's account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.

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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century [Wong, Alice] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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Increase your awareness of the concerns facing the black disabled community! Disability and the Black Community addresses physical, mental, and learning disabilities experienced across age, gender, and ethics groups by the black race in the United States. This unique book works to increase understan…

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Events at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law

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We lead the fight for economic and racial justice by litigating, shaping policy, and training and connecting people in the advocacy community.

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We lead the fight for economic and racial justice by litigating, shaping policy, and training and connecting people in the advocacy community. Race Equity at the Core of Consumer Law Racial justice should be central to the practice of consumer law on behalf of low-income people.

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Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race. 

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Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race. 

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The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues?

Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about communicating across racial and ethnic divides and pursuing antiracism. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand dynamics of race and racial inequality in America.

Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, is president emerita of Spelman College and in 2014 received the Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology, the highest honor presented by the American Psychological Association. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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ISBN: 9780465060689
ISBN-10: 0465060684
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: September 5th, 2017
Pages: 464
Language: English

"We don't talk about race in America, but we must start if we are going to heal this broken country--and Beverly Tatum's book is exactly the conversation opener we should be using."-Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things

" Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria was a landmark publication when it appeared in 1997. Twenty years later this updated edition is as fresh, poignant and timely as ever."-Earl Lewis, President, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

"An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life."-Jonathan Kozol

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race (Paperback)

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The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy?

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DRP operates a toll-free intake system available to all Pennsylvanians, providing legal advice, advocacy, and/or information and referral services to over 2,500 callers annually.

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DRP participates in approximately 10 outreach events annually to provide information about our services to people with disabilities, family members, advocates, and professionals.

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DRP provides approximately 50 trainings and presentations annually to people with disabilities, family members, advocates, and professionals on a variety of topics relating to disability rights.

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Disability Rights Pennsylvania | Protecting and Advancing the Rights of People with Disabilities

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Disability Rights Pennsylvania (DRP) is an independent, statewide, non-profit corporation designated as the federally-mandated protection and advocacy agency in Pennsylvania.

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Events at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Social Work

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The University of Pittsburgh is among the nation's most distinguished comprehensive universities, with a wide variety of high-quality programs in both the arts and sciences and professional fields.

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Disability & Mental Health Summit, Hosted by Representative Dan Miller

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Our free annual Disability & Mental Health Summit will look a bit different this year. For the last seven years, this event has made a difference in the lives of thousands of people and has brought together over 2,000 people, 180 participating organizations, and offered over many hours of free sessi…

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African American Conference on Disabilities

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The African American Conference on Disabilities is the premiere comprehensive disability conference in the United States that addresses the intersection between race and disabilities. The conference examines avenues for self-advocacy to ensure the effective provision of services, resources, and enforcement of civil rights in the African American and disability communities. This year's virtual conference attendees came from all across Arizona, almost every state in the U.S., U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada, Africa, and Europe to learn and ask questions on a wide range of disability issues. The virtual conference has featured workshops all with an emphasis on disabilities, held throughout the month of February, and had over 11,000 attendees on Zoom and Facebook Live. If you would like more information, please email: Natalie Luna Rose, nlunarose@azdisabilitylaw.org If you would like to be a sponsor or partner for the conference, please email: Renaldo Fowler, rfowler@azdisabilitylaw.org

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The 2021 African American Conference on Disabilities is the premiere comprehensive disability conference in the United States that addresses the intersection between race and disabilities. The conference examines avenues for self-advocacy to ensure the effective provision of services, resources and enforcement of civil rights in the African American and disability communities.

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'SignTasTic!,' game show featuring sign language, filming in Pittsburgh

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'SignTasTic!,' game show featuring sign language, filming in Pittsburgh

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A unique new game show aiming to raise awareness about American Sign Language and the deaf community is being filmed in Pittsburgh.

Each episode of the show, dubbed "SignTasTic!," features two contestants who have to learn 50 sign language words before the show. The show then tests how well they've learned those words through activities such as trivia games and charades that all revolve around American Sign Language.

The host, Dan Cook, and the performers who are involved in the show are all deaf. The contestants aren't deaf but learn sign language words through the game.

"It's focusing on deaf and hearing people. It's bringing the two worlds together," Cook said via an interpreter.

Cook said he hopes the show will encourage people to learn some sign language so they can better communicate with individuals in the deaf community, breaking down the "invisible barrier between hearing and deaf worlds."

Cook, a Pittsburgh native, has a master's degree in American Sign Language and teaches as an American Sign Language professor at CCAC.

He developed the idea for the show with Silent Visual Media owners David S. Keinath and Heather Gray. Gray also serves as the show's executive director and co-host.

Cook said he believes the show is the first in television history to revolve around sign language.

"We're really in uncharted territory," he said.

The budget on the initial production was about $1.2 million.

Details about when and where the show will air have not been announced. The show has not yet been sold and is not in distribution.

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Putting the show together with a crew that includes about 10 deaf individuals has been a unique experience, Gray said.

"The entertainment business hasn't always been friendly to people with disabilities," she said.

To overcome that, the crew made some adjustments on the set to ensure deaf performers feel welcome. They're using two teleprompters - one in standard English and one with American Sign Language, which is written differently than English. They have sign language interpreters and a sign language coach on set.

The show aims to prove that deaf individuals have a place in the entertainment industry and to teach people sign language in a fun, accessible way.

The final two episodes of the 11-episode initial production of "SignTasTic!" were filmed Friday at WQED studios in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. They're using the studio that once housed "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," Gray said.

"It's so special. I feel that all of the values we espouse are Mr. Rogers' values," Gray said. "We accept everyone, come as you are. We were all made different so we can learn from each other."

Stephanie Paris, a contestant from Cleveland, said she has learned a lot from participating in the game show.

"It's really cool, being able to learn the signs. I can't say I've learned (sign language) yet, but I know 100 words and I want to keep learning," Paris said.

Though Paris said it was stressful to try to memorize signs for the show, she was excited to finally learn some sign language, something she'd always wanted to do.

Plus, being on a game show had been a lifelong dream, she said.

This particular show, Paris said, proves that the entertainment industry can evolve to be more diverse and inclusive.

"It shows we don't have to do everything the way we've always done it," she said.

Paris was competing against Lamont Richmond of Cleveland to see who had mastered the signs better. In each episode, there is $5,000 at stake for contestants.

Richmond said he enjoyed being on camera, but the most rewarding part of being on the show was "learning something new and showing the world it can be done."

National game show producer Silent Visual Media LLC has been filming the show for about a month. The team producing the show includes producers Leigh Hampton, who has worked on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," "Hollywood Game Night" and other shows, and Jared Bierylo, who worked on "Hogwarts Tournament of Houses," "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" and other productions.

Julia Felton is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Julia at 724-226-7724, jfelton@triblive.com or via Twitter .

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'SignTasTic!,' game show featuring sign language, filming in Pittsburgh

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A unique new game show aiming to raise awareness about American Sign Language and the deaf community is being filmed in Pittsburgh. Each episode of the show, dubbed “SignTasTic!,” features two contestants who have to learn 50 sign language words before the show. The show then tests how well they’ve

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ACLU-PA Report highlights how school districts underreport student arrests in Allegheny County

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ACLU-PA Report highlights how school districts underreport student arrests in Allegheny County

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ACLU-PA Report Highlights how School Districts Underreport Student Arrests in Allegheny County

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PITTSBURGH - Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania released a new report, Student Arrests in Allegheny County Schools: The Need for Transparency and Accountability. The report finds that some school districts regularly underreport data on student arrests to the public.

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PeoplesHub - Skills For A Local Revolution

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PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.