#disability organizing

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Check out past and upcoming webinars in the PADSA webinar series, and learn new skills you or your group can use to promote self advocacy in your state!

[autisticadvocacy]

This PDF can help you get your meetings to work! 

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Chief of Police: "why you making this fuss? Nobody ever changed nothing breaking the law."

Adapter: "The buses you're taking us to jail on, are they accessible? "

Chief of Police: "yes, they have ramps."

Adapter: "we put those there. "

--Source: Michael Bailey's Facebook

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Webinar: Same Old Story - Strategies to Combat Media Misrepresentations

Often times, media will say negative things about people with disabilities that end up harming our community. This webinar will explore community organizing strategies and effective messaging to respond to negative portrayals and perspectives of people with disabilities.

To learn more about the PADSA series of trainings, go to our site.

[autisticadvocacy]

This is recommended by one of the presenters at ACI 2014, Allegra Stout:

Sarah Schneider mentioned one-to-ones (intentional conversations to build relationships for organizing) in response to a question during my session on building student groups. The New Organizing Group website also has several other excellent online trainings on organizing skills. Unfortunately, the videos only have automatic Youtube captions and there are no image descriptions for the PDFs.

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“It’ll Grow Organically and Naturally": The Reciprocal Relationship between Student Groups and Disability Studies on College Campuses

“It’ll Grow Organically and Naturally": The Reciprocal Relationship between Student Groups and Disability Studies on College Campuses- Allegra Stout, Ariel Schwartz

Abstract: 

Although few colleges and universities offer undergraduate disability studies curricula, our own experiences suggest that higher education settings provide opportunities for students to engage with and act upon disability studies theories and concepts. To learn more about the interactions between undergraduate student groups and disability studies, we interviewed students and faculty on three campuses. We found that students not only access disability studies theory through both formal and informal means, but that they also actively engage with it to develop their understandings of disability and interpret their experiences. Additionally, student groups educate their campus communities by advocating for the inclusion of disability studies in curricula, sharing their perspectives in the classroom, and hosting events related to disability studies. Through these activities, often in collaboration with faculty and staff, students forge reciprocal relationships between their activism and the field of disability studies.

This was mentioned by (and co-authored by) one of the presenters from ACI 2014!