Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha connects disability justice to mutual aid, grief, climate survival, accessible art, and disabled joy - without romanticizing care work.

A mixed-media memoir of Asian American family, disability, pandemic politics, access, humor, and collective care - asking whose knowledge and futures matter.

Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility gathers first-person writing by contemporary disabled people, bringing disability culture, media representation, embodiment, law, art, and everyday life into public view.

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.

A manga artist with cerebral palsy seeks authorship, sexual experience, and independent life. HIKARI makes a disabled woman not an object of care but a subject with desire, contradiction, and agency.

Kate Kahle reflects on how diagnostic frameworks can miss autistic women and girls. Her talk connects masking, gender expectations and clinical recognition while cautioning against treating one personal story as every autistic person’s experience.

Drawing on Black feminist and disability-justice traditions, two Level Up organizers define collective care as movement infrastructure rather than a benefit added after political work.

In her TEDxShivNadarUniversity talk, Srishti Pandey starts from the everyday life of a disabled woman to challenge inspiration narratives and connect ableism with sexual autonomy and access.

Ivorian lawyer Brigitte Mensah continues legal work and disability-rights advocacy after losing her sight, prompting questions about accessible voting, legal services and public institutions.

Judith Heumann connects her struggle for education and public participation with the Section 504 protests, showing how collective organizing turns a legal promise into an enforceable right.

In this TEDxSydney talk, Stella Young critiques inspiration porn and the way nondisabled society consumes disabled people as objects of moral uplift.