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Ten Principles of Disability Justice

The 10 Principles of Disability Justice recognize that disability exists at the intersection of other identities and experiences oppression in different ways depending on those intersecting identities. The principles call for leadership from those most impacted by ableism and oppression, take an anti-capitalist stance recognizing human worth isn't defined by productivity, and advocate for cross-movement solidarity and cross-disability solidarity in working toward collective liberation.

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Ten Principles of Disability Justice

The 10 Principles of Disability Justice recognize that disability exists at the intersection of other identities and experiences oppression in different ways depending on those intersecting identities. The principles call for leadership from those most impacted by ableism and oppression, take an anti-capitalist stance recognizing human worth isn't defined by productivity, and advocate for cross-movement solidarity and cross-disability solidarity in working toward collective liberation.

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10 Principles of Disability Justice:

1. Intersectionality
We know that each person has multiple identities, and that each identity
can be a site of privilege or oppression. The mechanical workings of
oppression and how they output shift depending upon the characteristics of
any given institutional or interpersonal interaction; the very experience of
disability itself is being shaped by race, gender, class, gender expression,
historical moment, relationship to colonization, and more.

2. Leadership of Those Most Impacted


We know ableism exists in the context of other historical systemic
oppressions. We know to truly have liberation we must be led by those who
know the most about these systems and how they work.

3. Anti-Capitalist Politic
We are anti-capitalist as the very nature of our body/minds resist
conforming to a capitalist "normative" level of production. We don't believe
human worth is dependent on what and how much a person can produce.
We critique a concept of "labor" as defined by able-bodied supremacy,
white supremacy, and gender normativity. We understand capitalism to be
a system that promotes private wealth accumulation for some at the
expense of others.

4. Cross-Movement Solidarity
Necessarily cross-movement, Disability Justice shifts how social justice
movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, lending itself
toward a united front politic.

5. Recognizing Wholeness
We value our people as they are, for who they are, and understand that
people have inherent worth outside of capitalist notions of productivity.
Each person is full of history and life experience. Each person has an
internal experience composed of their own thoughts, sensations, emotions,
fantasies, perceptions, and idiosyncrasies. Disabled people are whole
people.

6. Sustainability
We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long-term.
We value the teachings of our lives and bodies. We understand that our
embodied experience is a critical guide and reference pointing us toward
justice and liberation.

7. Commitment to Cross-Disability Solidarity


We value and honor the insights and participation of all of our community
members. We are committed to breaking down
ableist/patriarchal/racist/classed isolation between people with physical
impairments, people who identify as "sick" or are chronically ill, "psych"
survivors, and those who identify as "crazy," neurodiverse people, people
with cognitive impairments, and people who are of a sensory minority, as
we understand that isolation ultimately undermines collective liberation.

8. Interdependence
Before the massive colonial project of Western European expansion, we
understood the nature of interdependence within our communities. We see
the liberation of all living systems and the land as integral to the liberation
of our own communities, as we all share one planet. We attempt to meet
each other's needs as we build toward liberation, without always reaching
for state solutions which can readily extend its control further over our lives.

9. Collective Access
As brown/black and queer crips, we bring flexibility and creative nuance to
engage with each other. We create and explore new ways of doing things
that go beyond able-bodied/minded normativity. Access needs aren't
shameful—we all have various capacities which function differently in
various environments. Access needs can be articulated within a community
and met privately or through a collective, depending upon an individual's
needs, desires, and the capacity of the group. We can share responsibility
for our access needs, we can ask that our needs be met without
compromising our integrity, we can balance autonomy being in community,
we can be unafraid of our vulnerabilities knowing our strengths are
respected.

10. Collective Liberation


How do we move together as people with mixed abilities, multiracial, multi-
gendered, mixed class, across the orientation spectrum—where no
body/mind is left behind?

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