Understanding Power
A systemic bias favoring nondisabled people.
What is ableism?
The overlap between oppressed identities; Kimberlé Crenshaw's term; Audre Lorde's idea that there are no single-issue movements.
What is intersectionality?
The act of supporting each other in an act of radical solidarity; for example, financial support.
What is mutual aid?
View of survival in The Shape of my Impact.
What is strength? What is thriving? What is a promise?
Organization that focuses on finding a "cure;" can be viewed as a hate group.
What is Autism Speaks?
One nation taking over a territory, commonly by force.
What is colonialism?
The idea that some people are "more disabled" than others.
What is disability hierarchy?
The concept of existing outside the "expected" timeline. Can be perceived as lost time, time travel, borrowed time, exhausted time, fractured time, fraught time, uncertain time, forever lost time, scrambled time, grief time, pandemic time.
What is crip time?
The mountain referred to by Eli Clare.
What is the capitalist, patriarchal, white supremacist society?
The state of existing with neurology that is different from the "norm."
What is neurodivergence?
Any instance of forced extension of power, commonly associated with the answer to Understanding Power: 200.
What is imperialism?
The structure that pathologizes disabilities; prioritizes treatment/cures.
An example of practicing anti-capitalist politics.
(No incorrect answer)
The internal struggle Samuels argues that all disabled people experience, especially regarding the panopticon and being watched.
What is passing vs. acceptance?
The idea that all people have different neurology.
What is neurodiversity?
People affected by ableism.
Who is everybody?
A structure that leads to more community, views disability through a complex lens, and focuses on the collective.
What is the social model of disability?
Can be supported with open-mindedness, privacy on demand, and safe spaces, according to Tobin Siebers.
What is sexual citizenship?
The act of hiding disability-related behaviors and thought processes.
What is masking?
The idea that isolating members of a community undermines the movement as a whole.
What is cross-disability solidarity?
Reshaping the system and allowing disabled people to have real power.
What is access?
Being both neurodivergent and queer, engaging in anti-heteronormative and neuronormative practices, etc., as according to Walker.
What is neuroqueer?
Repetitive behaviors performed as a way to self-soothe; primarily seen in neurodivergent individuals.
What is stimming?