Disability Justice

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Disability justice is a political framework developed by disabled activists of color — particularly the performance collective Sins Invalid, Mia Mingus, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Patty Berne — that grounds disability in intersecting systems of oppression rather than treating it as an individual medical condition. Where the disability rights movement focused on legal inclusion and accommodation within existing institutions, disability justice insists that those institutions are themselves organized around ableism, racism, capitalism, and settler colonialism. Access cannot be secured by adding ramps to structures built on exclusion.

Harm Reduction

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to reduce the negative consequences of risky behaviors — particularly drug use — without requiring abstinence as a precondition for care. Needle exchanges, naloxone distribution, supervised consumption sites, and safer supply programs all operate on harm reduction principles: meet people where they are, reduce the immediate dangers, and treat survival as the first priority rather than demanding behavioral transformation before offering help.

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