This document contains a partial list of public gatherings, workshops and courses. Please note that it hasn’t been updated since 2019. Most of the online material is still available. I work with the organizers as much as I can to center access. The information is hyperlinked in the document. If you have any questions, please contact the organizers or me.
If you’re organizing an event, I recommend referring to the #AccessIsLove Readings and Resources List to begin. I supported the construction of PTTAH 2019 Venue & Accessibility guide which provides a good template on how to center access in the development phase.
Collecting [a] home for Disability Justice in the Library contains a list of almost 40 books that have helped me form an analysis of disability and ableism.
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Leroy Moore, Lydia X.Z. Brown, Talila A. Lewis, and others - Accountable Reporting on Disability, Race, & Police Violence: A Community Response to the “Ruderman White Paper on the Media Coverage of Use of Force and Disability”
Deborah Danner - LIVING WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
Etheridge Knight - Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
Norman Kunc and Emma Van der Klift - Credo for Support
Helen Meekosha - Disability: Thinking and Acting Globally
Gil Scott-Heron - Poem for José Campos Torres
Florida Prisoners - FL Prisoners Call for Operation PUSH to Improve the Lives of Incarcerated People and the Communities We Come From
Esperança Garcia - Letter to the Governor of the Captaincy of São José do Piauí, Gonçalo Lourenço Botelho de Castro
Darius Miles - What the Hell Happened to Darius Miles?
Kerima Çevik - #AutisticWhileBlack: The Terrifying Case of Rebecca X
Trudy Hamilton - Explanation Of Misogynoir
Lateef Mcleod - Disability Justice and Liberation (Revolutionary Left Radio)
Annie Olaloku-Teriba - Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
Trudy Hamilton - On Blackness and Perceptions of Able-Bodied Privilege
Rachel Kushner - Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
Leroy Moore Jr - The Real Jim Crow (Poem & Statement To Reinstate Disability Component In History)
Robert Saleem Holbrook - Control Units: High Tech Brutality
Devyn Springer - Extracting a legacy of Black, Southern organizing for Palestine
Patty Berne - Disability Justice: A Working Draft
Jamelia N. Morgan - Caged In: The Devastating Harms of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners w/Physical Disabilities
Talila A. Lewis - Emmett Till & the Pervasive Erasure of Disability In Conversations about White Supremacy & Police Violence
Deane Spade & Mariame Kaba (compiled by) - Challenges and Pitfalls of Reforms
Sithandiwe Yeni - Putting land at the heart of radical economic transformation – a perspective from the ground
Mia Mingus - Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm
Virginia Woolf & Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - Suicide Letter to Her Husband, Leonard & an erasure of Virginia Woolf’s suicide letter to her husband, Leonard
Below is a list of organizations working in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The list is updated periodically in attempts that people can plug into the ongoing work.