Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People

Stacey Milbern is a disability justice thought leader with twelve years of experience incubating leadership programs, managing services programs, and providing technical assistance to organizations wanting to increase their capacity around disability and diversity. She is a queer, mixed race, disabled woman of color and is passionate about advancin

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I feel a little bitter that most non-disabled people do not have this dilemma of whether they will exchange their privacy to be seen as human.

Resistance must work to transform the conditions that created the need for that resistance in the first place.

The fact that abled white cisgender straight generationally well-off men comprise the vast majority of those who are deemed “qualified” to prosecute and practice in courts across this stolen land should be indicia enough of the problems inherent in our legal system. Attorneys,

also know personally that a function of ableism is that it forces disabled people to navigate systems in isolation, so most people do not actually have a clue about what our lives are like. I

The more invested our communities become in the government as the solution to violence, the less connected we become to each other, and the less we look to our own communities as sources of safety, healing, prevention, and transformation.

is not enough to only be able to articulate what you’re against; you also need to know what you are

The idea of autism as undesirable defect is so widespread in society, but if somebody says that, they will be yelled at for being self-hating.

We talk about how we can make events more accessible, and we absolutely need to be having that conversation more frequently and seriously than we already do. But aside from events, what does it mean to make your organization, Facebook group, or house accessible? What does that mean for those of us who are on a fixed income or have no income, or if