2. Mia Mingus, Creating Change 2009

3. Introductions

4. SAFER SPACE GUIDELINES 1. Take care of yourself 2. Ask for what you need  Tell me to be louder or clearer! 1. Speak for yourself  No outing people  Consent to share 2. Let others speak for themselves 3. No assuming, erasing, minimizing 4. Interrupt oppression …respectfully RESPECT YOURSELF RESPECT OTHERS

5. What do we mean by “disabled” or “disability?”  Disability  Civil Rights, Social, and Cultural Models  Disabled = Identity

6. Oppression Privilege

7.  Prejudice and discrimination based on disabled status.  “Ableism is the idea that having a difference or disability is bad.”-Galen Smith  The over-privileging of certain kinds of abilities. -Parallel to sexism as over-privileging male gender ABLE ISM Definitions

8. Disability Justice

9. Dignity of Risk Robert Perske

10. Disability and Workers (Side Note)

11. Checking assumptions… and labeling versus identity

12. Isolation Internal -ized Inter- Personal Institution -al Ideas 5 Eyes of Oppression Modified from Mel King, YouthBuild

13. Ideas

14. Institution -al

15. Institutionalization

16. Inter- Personal

17. Common Sense As Oppression

18. Internal- ized

19. Oppression and TRAUMA

20. Isolation

21. Intersecting Oppressions

22. Intersections of Oppressions The gawkers never get it right. They’ve turned away from me, laughed, thrown rocks, pointed their fingers, quoted Bible verses, called me immoral and depraved, tried to heal me, swamped me in pity. Their hatred snarls into me, and often I can’t separate the homophobia from the ableism from the transphobia. The gawkers never get it right, but what I want to know is this: will you? - Eli Clare, Gawking, Gaping, Staring, in Queer Crips, p. 214

23. Ideas about responding…

24. Responding as an Ally or Supporter…

25. CONSENT!

26. Advocacy, or Self-Advocacy?

27. Power, Privilege, and Response

28. Is now the time and place? SafetyOppression Self-control *Trauma PriorityCONSENT! Other needs? Prepared For Response For Support For Self- Care

29. Disability Justice and the Other Eyes of Oppression

30. People in Search of Safe Restrooms Trans & Queer Students Disabled People Parents & Women PISSR Becomes PISSAR & Accessible!

31. The Autistic Spectrum: What is it? Sensory Cognitive Social Communication Secondary/overlap: PTSD Allergies Food sensitivities Depression/Anxiety Physical Attention, Etc. Emotional “If you’ve met one person with autism – you’ve met one person with autism." -Stephen Shore SENSORY OVERLOAD Different brain processing of some or all of the following which is defined as or experienced as disabling*: Ian Ruotsala

32. Autism and Access -Sensory preferences for information/communication Sensory reduction -Food -Detail-to-whole, metaphors, pop culture -Don’t be an ass (jokes/sarcasm) -Social interpreters -Structure! With some flexibility Make norms explicit! -Stimming allowed! Use passions & strengths! -Alone Time -Earplugs, Hats, etc.

33. “I prefer to be subtle”

34. What are you thinking about?

36. Gender reaches into disability; Disability wraps around class; Class strains against abuse; Abuse snarls into sexuality; Sexuality folds on top of race … Everything finally piling into a single human body. … Where to start? … with the memory of how my body felt swimming in the river, Chinook fingerlings nibbling at my toes. There are a million ways to start, but how do I reach beneath the skin? Eli Clare, Exile & Pride, 123, 1999