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Disability: The Blind Spot...
Invitation from Olivia Nathan for the PW community based on a talk Reclaiming Justice run for Climate Justice actors. Please let me know if you are interested and can make the date by booking a ticket. You are welcome to donate to us before or after the session.
Disability: The Blind Spot... Tuesday 16th of March 6:30-9pm
6:30-7:30 1st half of talk + exercise + break
7:30-8:20/8:30 2nd half + exercise
8:20/30-9 optional Q&A
Disability as personal experience and a wider topic came up in the first seminar of a series within a longer PW training I am part of. It is a collective issue that feels often overlooked in the world and in PW spaces and too often left misunderstood.
People with disabilities represent the worlds largest minority group and only group that any of us can become a member of at any time. Disabled people experience prejudice, barriers and bias on a daily basis and we all possess inherent prejudices and patterns of being that contribute to that.
I would like to invite you to come to an event hosted by a small collective I am part of, Reclaiming Justice, to engage in the work of learning and undoing abelism within us, understanding better the conditioned prejudices and allow deepening in our understanding of this important issue.
The event will include us sharing a talk we made with Emily Obree, disabled disability and climate justice actor. This will explore the wider narratives surrounding disability, its history and include some examples from the environmental movement (our specialist area) as well as Covid and exploring intersectionality and the notion of oppression. You will also be hosted an opportunity to do some small exercises to better understand your relationship to disability and start to uncover personal prejudices as well as be invited to participate in a Q&A.
Whatever your positioning, identifying as disabled or not, based on previous successful events we trust it will be a rich experience for you, as well as what we feel is a needed service to those with disabilities and to our overarching shift to a world vision many of us share that values equality, diversity and inclusion.
Financial contribution: We have a role in reshaping the economic world around us. Culturally it has become acceptable for much of the public good work, the caring work, the justice work to come from volunteer labour or low waged workers. Essentially we believe we must pay oppressed people for their labour in undoing the oppressors that live within us. Therefore we are asking for a suggested contribution of £3-£15 depending on your means.
Accessibility: If you feel unable to pay the contribution then please don't hesitate to register for a free ticket. If you need additional support for example a pre-sent transcript, a buddy during the meeting who you meet before to provide emotional support or anything else please get in touch with us at reclaimingjustice-info@riseup.net and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.
About the speaker:
Emily identifies as a disabled-disability and climate crisis activist. For the last 2 years Emily has been a highly active member of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, a charity by disabled people for disabled people focusing on advocacy and rights for disability in Scotland. She has been a part of the Drivers for change group pressuring the government for policies and education including writing the material and reviewing it with the government. Since the age of 17 she has been involved in the zeitgeist movement of a resource based economy and social movement science. Emily also has been involved in digital privacy/rights and hacker-space autonomy which she has applied in the context of speaking out against unjust police surveillance.
Image credit: Tommy Parker, Synergy
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Edinburgh EH1
United Kingdom
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