1. In what ways does interdependence play a role in your life? Give one example.
To further contextualize and humanize the 10 Principles, here are some quotes from disability justice activists expressing their personal thoughts about being included or not included in what society deems valuable.
“The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the world.”- Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
“Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn’t me being weak or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honored crip creative practice. And that understanding allowed me to finally write from a disabled space, for and about sick and disabled people, including myself, without feeling like I was writing about boring, private things that no one would understand.”― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
“Access for the sake of access or inclusion is not necessarily liberatory. But access done in the service of love, justice, connection, and community is liberatory and has the power to transform. – Mia Mingus, Disability Justice Activist
“Centering those of us who live – comfortably or uncomfortably, willingly or forcibly – with disabled as part of our identities and experiences means treating all people, regardless of how our brains or bodies work, as worthy of love and care…Disability justice allows us to embrace weakness, vulnerability, frailty, and imperfection.”– Lydia X. Z. Brown, Attorney and Disability Rights Activist
“It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed.”― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
2.Pick one of the above quotes and explain how it applies to any of the 10 Disability Justice Principles.
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