Topic: Disability Justice

  • Insight abolition, disability justice, welfare

    Understanding Welfare State Violence

    State violence hides and thrives, harms and disarms, because we’re told it’s for ‘our own good’. The violent bureaucracy, assessments, waiting, being made to feel like you’re undeserving, being told…

    yellow and red illustration / collage with a person in a wheelchair reaching out towards the sun
  • Insight disability justice, welfare

    Creative Resistance to Welfare State Violence

    Creativity has been key to exposing and resisting the violence of the welfare state – as a political strategy to show the scale of harm, hold the government to account,…

    blue and red digital artwork that reads deaths by welfare with the names of those killed as a result of the welfare state in the letters.
  • Insight disability justice

    Skills & Wisdom of Disabled People

    Disability Justice activists Lani Parker and Dzifa Afonu discuss the skills and wisdom that disabled people bring to surviving and thriving during the pandemic and beyond. They draw on their own experiences to share…

  • Insight disability justice, life-affirming infrastructures

    Lived Experience Mental Health in Times of Covid-19

    Akiko Hart, CEO of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), shares user-led mental health initiatives and key learnings from the pandemic period in conversation with researcher China Mills. In response to…

    pink and yellow graphic that reads lived-experience mental health in times of covid-19 with China Mills and Akiki Hart
  • Insight abolition, disability justice

    Liberation Through the Lens of Disability Justice

    This conversation brings together Mia Mingus and the Triple Cripples to discuss  disability justice and its relationship to liberation practice through their respective work. They discuss the intersections of disability…

    blue background with yellow and white text that reads liberation through the lens of disability justice a panel sicsussion between The Triple Cripples, Mia Mingus, and Farzana Khan