This practice with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter, leads you to cultivate a sense of belonging within yourself that is untouchable by external conditions. It is a political act to claim a belonging and dignity that cannot be threatened by inequality or oppression, and an emotionally empowering act to resource ourselves with this very real human need to know we belong. You don’t need anything except a quiet space for this practice, and you can try it alone or together with a group.
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Today we’re talking with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of the Black Lives Matter Network. We talk about the ways anti-Blackness shapes all of us to deny our own humanity, the role of shame, how we heal so we can give our unique contribution, avoidance, the Black Lives Matter Healing in Action toolkit, how healers are real people with limitations who aren’t better than anybody else, and belonging as a decision we make, not an external condition.
A basic, brief guide through the alphabet looking at terms for gender and sexuality.
Gender glossary: a guide to understanding sexuality and gender terminology.
Fuck your gender norms : How western colonisation brought unwanted binaries to lgbo culture, an article in which Chidera Ihejirika explores the untold story of how alien ideas of rigid gender constructs were introduced to Nigeria – and why they persist today.
Video discussions made by the collective SINS INVALID , a series of videos called CRIP BITS. This particular video focuses on ideas of queering the crip body, looking at gender, sexuality, and disability.
Mia Mingus is an American writer, educator, and community organizer who focuses on issues of disability justice. She is noted for introducing the concept of and coining the term “access intimacy” and “forced intimacy” and urges disability studies and activism to centralize the experiences of marginalized people within disability organizing. This is an article written by Mia Mingus.
Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of colour and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized .
Disabled people of color, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people, including Patty Berne, Stacey Milbern, Eli Clare, Sebastian Margaret, Mia Mingus, and many others have documented the history of ableism in the U.S. as well as the work and limitations of the disability rights movement, and developed critical resources toward a disability justice framework. The videos in the series “No Body Is Disposable” offer snapshots of this framework and tools for activists, educators, and students to bring to their communities.
Conversation with SINS INVALID about the disability justice framework, Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern discuss the need for a politicized understanding of ableism within a context of racism, classism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.