Disability Justice--and REALLY practical down to earth advocacy

RantWoman notes the existence of #DisabilityPrideMonth. In true Quaker fashion, there should be Disability Pride all the time but since the anniversary of the signing of  the Americans with Disabilities Act will soon be upon us, RantWoman is going to grab a few items seasoned with characteristically piquant RantWoman commentary.

RantWoman has not checked but thinks the enumeration in this video of Disability Justice principles is slightly different and in any case briefer than previous articles.

RantWoman imagines some readers will need to filter some of the rhetoric. RantWoman herself is somewhere in the camp of "where is the love?" The video also reports on really powerful initiatives in New York.

Here a weird disability culture note: the video opens with the speaker offering a physical description of herself. The speaker also makes the point that this is an access / inclusion gesture regardless of how a call participant may be connected. Among blind people this practice is highly controversial: some blind people like it fine as long as it is brief; some blind people really hate it. 

There was a resolution at "those other blind people's convention soundly condemning the practice. The author of the resolution is African American (as in father from Africa) and his wife is Japanese American but somehow the resolution got interpreted as opposition to the organization's #DEI / DEIA initiative. RantWoman is glad the resolution failed and somehow soothed in the thought that even without sacred Quaker process discussions can go in unpredictable directions. 

Finally a dollop of alphabet soup just to garnish this post: DEI / DEIA and SPICES + J??