PeoplesHub - Building a Disability Politic & Access-Centered Cultures workshop series

This 2-part series is for people that are interested in applying a disability justice framework to your current movement work. Using a popular education methodology, we’ll begin with brief assessments of where you’re at and build on existing knowledge and practices. We’ll work through your politic around disability and how it relates access for everyone, particularly disabled people. The workshops are meant to sharpen your analysis by identifying gaps and strengths in challenging ableism. 

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This series will occur 3 times in 2025:

‍Option 1: Tuesdays, July 15 & 22, 6-8 pm ET (click to register for these dates)

Option 2: Fridays, August 1st & 8, 12-2 pm ET (click to register for these dates)

Option 3: Tuesday, October 21 & 28,  6-8 pm ET (click to register for these dates)

Workshop #1: Building a Disability Politic (2 hours)

‍This workshop links the ways disability is connected to the systems of oppression that you are already addressing in your work, aiming to deepen its understanding of disability in relation to capitalism, imperialism, and other dominant systems. Through scenario-based exercises, we’ll identify how ableist views of disability shape situations and find ways to challenge them. We'll examine historical organizing examples through a disability justice lens, to build an understanding of how you can apply the framework to your work.

Workshop #2: Building Access-Centered Cultures (2 hours)

‍Building on the first workshop, we'll focus on the distinctions between disability rights and disability justice as it relates to accessibility and access. This is not an accessibility training. Our goal is for you to begin developing an understanding of the culture and analysis necessary to implement collective access, as opposed to individual accommodations. We'll use scenarios based on information we have about everyone in the group and real-life situations, to practice applying a disability justice framework.