Solidarity between catastrophic singularity and disastrous individualism — Against Catastrophe
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Solidarity between catastrophic singularity and disastrous individualism — Against Catastrophe
They have articulated ten principles of disability justice: Intersectionality, Leadership of those most affected, Anticapitalist politics, Cross-movement solidarity, Recognizing wholeness, Sustainability, Cross-disability solidarity, Interdependence, Collective Access, and Collective Liberation.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Rebecca Solnit explores the connection in “A Paradise Built in Hell,” articulating how amidst the destruction that disasters enact, more considerate and caring communities often arise. It’s a dynamic that can spark deep joy for those who experience it, Solnit writes — a joy that “reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness... See more
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
• post-tragic (meaning and agency on the other side of despair)
• post-extrinsic (driven by new societal purposes)
• post-rational (open to ways of knowing that transcend and include the intellect),
• post-exploitation (reflective about the uses and abuses of power)
• post-tribal (whole-hearted togetherness in a world of love and power; an expansive
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