this is a resource created by BATJC to designate who could be a support in being accountable for harm, holding someone else accountable for harm, or who could help you if you witnessed harm. Honor where it came from and who created it.

Best practices for good ASL/CART access for online events: The Revolution Must Be Accessible document from HEARD.78 If you look at one resource on this list about online access, it should be this one!

Ableism robs us of our ability to see disabled possibilities, even ones that might be relatively small.

As an important footnote to this: It’s not about having no sense of time and no one showing up for anything ever. Often when I see abled people encounter disabled people talking about “flexibility” and “sustainability,” I see their faces close up. I believe they imagine that if we have a more relaxed approach to time, nothing will get done and all

This could just be sad, and it is—the corporate ableist refusal to let access stay. But it’s also a remembrance: nothing has to be the way it is. Access is created, it gets taken away/destroyed, but it can be created again.

Part of our process of learning to love ourselves and each other and to practice care means doing the incredibly risky work of tapping back into the disabled body/mind we have been taught to suppress and abandon, to learn what our boundaries are, and what we want, need, and desire.

However, in the words of June Jordan, “We always have choices. And capitulation is only one of them.”

Autistic long-form overlaps with another maligned form, sometimes known as “infodumping.”

disabled Black and Indigenous queer ancestor Ibrahim Farajajé referred to as “luminous endarkment”64—a sacred Dark time, a quiet, inward, bed time. A crip space of creation and possibility.