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Disabled people have always been at the forefront of movements for justice and freedom, building networks of care and solidarity, and creating social and cultural transformation. Disabled students organized to create the first disabled-run direct services center in Berkeley in the 1960's, bring the first Deaf president of the nation's only Deaf university in the 1980's, and create Disability Cultural Centers at a growing number of universities since the 1990's and peer-led, abolitionist, anticarceral support by/for neurodivergent and mad people. Come to this session to find solidarity, community, connection, and witness. You'll learn about histories of powerful disabled students' organizing and community building, gain tools for knowing and caring for ourselves and each other, and plant seeds for future connection, growth, and transformation.
Neurodivergent, crip, mad, sick, and disabled people are already present in colleges and universities. Yet pervasive ableism, reinforced and intersecting with other forms of systemic injustice and structural oppression, relegates us to the margins, keeps us outside the gates, and forces too many of us out. Disabled students, scholars, and community members are working constantly to challenge the narrative that we do not belong in the academy. Beyond inclusion and belonging, Disability Justice demands recognition and respect for disabled people's ways of knowing, being, learning, teaching, and relating. Disability Justice transcends frameworks of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and challenges us to incorporate multimodality, flexibility, fluidity, and interdependence into our pedagogies, technologies, classrooms, and communities.
Neurodivergent, crip, mad, and disabled people are already present in all of our communities. Yet we face the constant presence of pervasive ableism (disability prejudice and oppression), reinforced and intersecting with other forms of systemic injustice. Disabled people are working constantly to challenge the narratives that we do not belong in society, and to demand recognition and respect for disabled people's ways of knowing, being, learning, and relating. Disability justice analysis enables us to understand the necessary role of ableism in shaping social thought, research, and policy about race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation
• and to challenge arbitrary notions of "normal" and "wellness" that undergird oppressive systems and influence our everyday lives. Disability Justice principles and practices offer radical and revolutionary ways of reimagining our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the communities where we live, work, and learn. Disability Justice goes beyond the frameworks of equity, inclusion, and diversity, and challenges us to incorporate multimodality, flexibility, and interdependence into our workplaces, research agendas, technologies, design, and communities.
Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Radical Access, Community Care, and Collective Liberation by/for Disabled Students, Beyond Student Services and Support: Disability Justice Transforming Higher Education and Why Disability Justice is an Intersectional Imperative for Our Futures and Our Freedom. The estimated speaking fee range to book Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown generally travels from Baltimore, MD, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Kylar Broadus, Temple Grandin, Tiffany Yu, Geena Rocero and Keely Cat-Wells. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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