Mia Mingus is a disability justice writer, educator, and community organizer. Her work centers the experiences of disabled people of color and queer disabled people, and addresses how access, care, and interdependence function within and against ableist systems.
Core ideas
- Access intimacy: the felt sense of having one’s access needs understood and met without constant negotiation or justification. Access intimacy names a quality of relationship rather than a checklist of accommodations.
- Disability justice: Mingus is a co-creator (with Patty Berne and others) of the disability justice framework, which insists that disability cannot be separated from race, class, gender, and other axes of oppression.