Indiana Disability Justice

01/28/2025

By artst: Tara x This piece was sent as simple text that reads: “you took me in with broken wings, nursed me over time, helped me move past many things, and taught me how to fly. When things began to fall apart, and darkness turned to stone, your kind embrace and warming heart, began to feel like home. You mended every shattered dream, with patience, gentle grace, and in your light, my spirit gleamed, I found my peace in this safe space....

By artst: Tara x This piece was sent as simple text that reads: “you took me in with broken wings, nursed me over time, helped me move past many things, and taught me how to fly. When things began …

01/22/2025

By Artist: Kenadie Description of Art:Front: This piece is painted and drawn on a rectangle canvas. It shows a bedroom with yellow walls, tan-colored flooring, a white open door, and typical bedroom furniture. The dresser drawers are open with clothes spilling out of them. The waste basket is overflowing, there is a book on the floor, and someone sitting in their bed on the right side of the room....

By Artist: Kenadie Description of Art:Front: This piece is painted and drawn on a rectangle canvas. It shows a bedroom with yellow walls, tan-colored flooring, a white open door, and typical bedroo…

01/13/2025

Webinar-Expanding Access: A Virtual Resource for Supporting Survivors with Disabilities. Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025. Time: 1:00-2:30 EST. Languages: ASL, English and Spanish. Registration: https://bit.ly/DJ-curriculum. Questions and Comments: jmilharcic.idj@gmail.com. During this webinar, you will learn the underlying ideas and values that went into creating this tool, a discussion about modern-day abolitionism, and a summary of resources in each section. https://mailchi.mp/ca35d7b4048d/webinar-expanding-access-a-virtual-resource

01/09/2025

Artist: Mo Clark Description of Art:This piece is on a white rectangle canvas and was created using a variety of colorful markers. At the center of the piece is a side profile of a person in black ink. Inside the side profile where the brain would be is a plethora of colorful scribbles going in a circular motion. At the center of the scribes is a silver-colored semi colon....

Artist: Mo Clark Description of Art:This piece is on a white rectangle canvas and was created using a variety of colorful markers. At the center of the piece is a side profile of a person in black …

12/12/2024

By Ben Description of Art:This piece was submitted and created digitally utilizing a tool that mimics watercolor paint. At the center of the piece is a person with long, green, messy hair and pale skin. They are wearing a blue striped shirt and blue pants with blotches of blue-green and purple colors. The person is sitting down, legs bent in front of them, with their hands together at their front....

By Ben Description of Art:This piece was submitted and created digitally utilizing a tool that mimics watercolor paint. At the center of the piece is a person with long, green, messy hair and pale …

12/10/2024

Description of Art:Front: This piece is on a white rectangle canvas and the art was created with a black graphite pencil. The border of the canvas has a cloud shape, inside the shape are the following series of words and phrases: Irrational, Worry, Dont give up on me, exhausted, irritability, overwhelmed, sadness, intrusive thoughts, fear, brain moves slowww, numb, fear of failure, excessive sleep, introvert, worried, isolation, slow, intense, lazy, losing people, no down time, tired, lonely, not enough, routine, hopeless, drained, behind, guilt, panic, and the words inconvenience and burden are underlined....

Description of Art:Front: This piece is on a white rectangle canvas and the art was created with a black graphite pencil. The border of the canvas has a cloud shape, inside the shape are the follow…

12/09/2024

(Webinar) Art 4 Social Change: Cultivating Youth Voice in the Anti-Violence Movement - https://mailchi.mp/2ae0ca10d152/webinar-art-4-social-change-cultivating-youth-voice Date December 18, 2024. Time 1:00-2:30 EST. Register: https://bit.ly/art4socialchange. Description: What makes an environment safe, stable, and nurturing? What if you’re q***r? What if you have mobility challenges? What if you’re autistic? Support young artistic voices as vehicles for connectedness, resistance, and social change in a time of deep separation. Meet three Hub contributor.

11/15/2024

Arturo Contreras Hey folks! I’m Arturo Contreras, a 25-year-old Latinx guy on a journey of understanding and advocating for disability justice. Like many of us, I’ve recently been diagnosed with ADHD. That moment was both a relief and a revelation—a chance to finally put a name to all those quirks that made me feel out of place. But let me tell you, disability justice goes far beyond just an individual diagnosis....

Arturo Contreras   Hey folks! I’m Arturo Contreras, a 25-year-old Latinx guy on a journey of understanding and advocating for disability justice. Like many of us, I’ve recently been diagnosed …

11/11/2024

Fight for equitable accessible housing! IDJ is committed to promoting social justice for persons with disabilities and the prevention of sexual violence within this community.These two go hand in hand. By addressing the needs of communities that are marginalized we reduce violence prevalence. - https://mailchi.mp/306edfe52af2/fight-for-equitable-accessible-housing

10/15/2024

Lets recognize the Superhuman feats of the US Paralympians. Please note that not all medalists are pictured. For a full list of all of the events and results check out Paralympic.org.

Gold (left to right, top to bottom):
🥇Ezra Frech (Para track and field, Men’s 100m T63 & Men’s high jump T63)
🥇Matt Stutzman (Para archery, Men’s individual compound open)
🥇Grace Norman (Para triathlon, Women’s PTS5)
🥇Rebecca Hart (Para equestrian, Individual event grade III &Individual freestyle event grade III
🥇Fiona Howard (Para equestrian, Individual event grade II & Individual freestyle event grade II
🥇Men’s competition (Wheelchair Basketball)
🥇Women’s Competition (Sitting volleyball)

Silver:
🥈Derek Loccident (Athletics, Men’s Long Jump T64)
🥈United States national wheelchair rugby team (Wheelchair Rugby)
🥈Dennis Conners (Cycling, Men’s road race T1-2)
🥈Maria Liana Mutia (Judo, Women’s 57 kg J1)
🥈Arelle Middleton (Athletics, Women’s Shot Put)

Bronze:
🥉Liza Corso (Athletics, Women’s 1500m T13)
🥉Blake Haxton (Paracanoeing, Men’s VL2)
🥉Susannah Scaroni (Athletics, Women’s 1500m T54 & Women’s 800m T5 & Women’s Marathon T54)
🥉Elouan Gardon (Cycling, Men’s Pursuit C5)
🥉Katerina Brim, Travis Gaertner & Matt Tingley (Cycling, Mixed team relay H1–5)
🥉Mark Barr (Paratriathlon, Men’s PTS2)

08/30/2024

This is our Penultimate installment in our series, where we’re breaking down Sins Invalid’s work: The 10 Principles of Disability Justice.

This week we are talking about Collective access. What are the ways that you can implement this in your life? Let us know down below!

08/30/2024

Hello! This is our final instalment of our Series where we’re breaking down sin’s invalids 10 principles of disability Justice.

As a reflection, which principle resonated the most with you?

Description: There is a pastel lime green background that remains consistent throughout the post. There is a title at the top that reads “10 Principles of Disability Justice”. In the center, there is an image of a group of people in a circle, with people in the middle of the circle as well. They are all holding hands and a chain as well. Below that scene there is a title that reads “10. Collective liberation”

2) There is a title that reads “What does this mean?“. The body text reads ““We move together as people with mixed abilities, multiracial, multi-gendered, mixed class, across the sexual spectrum, with a vision that leaves no bodymind behind. This is disability justice. We honor the longstanding legacies of resilience and resistance which are the inheritance of all of us whose bodies and minds will not conform. Disability justice is not yet a broad based popular movement. Disability justice is a vision and practice of what is yet-to-be, a map that we create with our ancestors and our great-grandchildren onward, in the width and depth of our multiplicities and histories, a movement towards a world in which every body and mind is known as beautiful.”- Sins Invalid”

3) There is a title that reads “What does this mean?“. The body text reads “We all move together. Just like some giant automaton with lots of moving parts, Disability Justice also has a lot of moving “parts”. There are a lot of different organizations, groups and individuals who are trying to bring about change. These people are making sure that we stay moving together, that no one is left behind. Even though Disability Justice is not a new movement we have to keep this fire going and be sure to call on the power and strength of our ancestors so that our successors and beyond can live in an equitable and beautiful society.”

4) There is a title that reads “This principle highlights the need to keep community going. We can only affect change if we participate. We must continue to inform ourselevs and continue to implement these principles in our lives. In previous posts, I have mentioned that there is an easy starting point. And there usually is, but after the start we have to continue to challenge ourselves in order to grow not only as individuals but also as a movement.”