Disability Justice movement
A movement, practice, and framework that centers intersectionality and includes interdependence, differences in disability, differences in identity, connections with other justice movements to overcome ableism and other oppression.
The term was first used in 2005 by disabled queer activists of color including Patty Berne of Sins Invalid, Mia Mingus, and Stacy Milbern. It was a pushback on the disability rights movement with criticism that it focused too much on independence of disabled people and capitalism and was built in white supremacy and gender-oppression, which, like ableism, describes bodies as “deviant,” “unproductive,” and “invalid.”
For more information, see the curriculum at Project LETS and see the resource library at Disability & Philanthropy Forum.