#DJGrounding conversation on #DisabilityJustice and #DisabilitySolidarity livestreaming with ASL interpretation, captioning at http://bit.ly/djgrounding  https://twitter.com/autistichoya/status/1253464854763114505

. @Azza_Alt naming ableist and anti-Black discourse about enslaved Black people as simultaneously immune from disease and threatening as more susceptible to disease - shows up today too in response to pandemic. #DJGrounding #DisabilitySolidarity #DisabilityJustice

Nirmala Erevelles now on: "You cannot talk about race without engaging disability; you cannot talk about disability without engaging race."
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Nirmala Ervelles: "Ableism is an inherently racist project and an inherently anti-Black project. People who are Black, Brown, and Indigenous are impacted by ableism even if they don't have that label [of disability]."
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I want to add to this conversation that the categories of criminality, promiscuity, sexual deviance, and disability have ALWAYS been used against Black, Brown, Indigenous, other negatively racialized people - interchangeably. #DJGrounding #DisabilitySolidarity #DisabilityJustice

Nirmala Erevelles: Public education is a carceral space even though many do not usually think of it as such. Disabled children of color face the most brutal violence in schools. esp. Black, Brown, Indigenous children.
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Nirmala Erevelles: It is not a school to prison pipeline because schools are a type of prison. Disabled Black, Brown, and Indigenous children move from one type of prison/carceral space to another.
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Nirmala Erevelles: Disability and race are used to further justify these children's incarceration in these units.

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. @talilalewis: A lot of the work that I do is unearthing histories that have been intentionally hidden from Black, Latinx, Indigenous, other negatively racialized people.
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. @talilalewis mentioning that trauma, deprivation, violence, and impoverishment are causes and consequences of disability.
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. @talilalewis: "The United States has always been good at depriving folks of resources necessary for life and liberty and breath and family."
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. @talilalewis: It was illegal for enslaved Black people to read/write. Enslaved people had tongues cut out, hands chopped off, for reading and writing.
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. @talilalewis White people created ideas of intelligence based on reading/writing, physical characteristics, labor output, ability to produce babies. If you couldn't read/write, you were labeled unintelligent/locked away.
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. @talilalewis on drapetomania: It wasn't just a crime to escape, to resist forced labor; it was a mental illness that only Black people could have.
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. @talilalewis on US census of 1840 on enslaved Black population and freed Black northern population. Free Black people had more instances of idiocy and insanity than enslaved Black people in South - enslavement was a "favor."
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. @talilalewis on US census of 1880 created Three D's - deficiency, delinquency, dependency. Framing freed Black people as burdens on society when provided with no material assistance on emancipation.

Might be degeneracy!

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. @talilalewis: Zoos and circuses put Black and Indigenous disabled people's bodies on display for white people to gawk at. When they made too little money they built different institutions/prisons instead.
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. @talilalewis clarifies - 3D Schedules of 1880 census were defective, dependent, and delinquent classes.

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Dorian Taylor: Group homes, nursing homes, psych hospitals are often seen as better alternatives to jails and prisons. They are not.

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