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March Fourth: A call to follow in Judy Heumann's path

  • 1.  March Fourth: A call to follow in Judy Heumann's path

    Posted Mar 04, 2024 04:33 PM
    Edited by Samantha Evans, ICE-CCP, CAE Mar 04, 2024 05:15 PM

    Today we are one year out since the loss of US Disability Activist Judy Heumann.

    I met Judy when she launched the campaign for Crip Camp and dozens of us were scrambling to prevent their use of an accessibility overlay on the Crip Camp website. Once we met with the website designers who worked with social and disability justice leaders, they quickly removed the overlay. 

    She offered for her help anytime, and she always responded, which astounded me. She was always ready to support advocacy work.

    If you haven't watched Crip Camp, you should. You'll find where the US disability rights movement took so many of its leads from the intersectionality with Black Civil Rights leaders and movements as well.

    Of note, disability like any group of systemically oppressed people - is not a monolith.

    Black disabled leader Andrea Levant collaborated on Crip Camp, the Crip Camp website, and the Crip Camp interactive tour as well as the websites/content.

    You'll likely see a whole series of Capitol Crawls this month too at State Capitols around the country.

    You can read/listen to more about Judy in this memorial to her from last year:
    https://www.npr.org/2023/03/04/1161169017/disability-activist-judy-heumann-dead-75

    And if you'd like to learn more about Judy in her memoir, Being Heumann

    NOTE: Crip Camp is criticized for white-washing disability and for also being akin to inspiration porn and for driving some level of oppression olympics.
    https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=mcleod

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration_porn

    Interested in reading about intersectionality and disability rights not being the "oppression olympics"? 

    The first potential recorded use of the term as a way to theorize comparing oppression was by Chicana feminist Elizabeth Martínez in a conversation with Angela Davis at the University of California, San Diego in 1993. Martínez stated: "the general idea is no competition of hierarchies should prevail. No 'Oppression Olympics'!"

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    Samantha Evans, CAE, ICE-CCP, MBA (she/her)
    The Accessible CAE
    sam.evans@accessibilityassociation.org
    Certification Director
    Intl. Assoc. of Accessibility Professionals, a division of G3ict
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