#IDPWD: To exist is to resist! Disability Justice is Feminist Justice ✊✨

On this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we honor the leadership of persons with disabilities, especially women, queer folks, migrants, Indigenous peoples, and racialised communities whose struggles are too often erased.

📣 As Patricia Berne of Sins Invalid reminds us, “We cannot comprehend ableism without grasping its interrelations with heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism.”

Feminist movements fail unless we confront ableism and the systems that produce and weaponize disability through violence, exclusion, and dispossession.

From women activists speaking up against authoritarian regimes to Palestinians and Rohingyans facing genocide – state violence disproportionately harms women and gender-diverse persons with disabilities. It also creates disability through injury, trauma, starvation, and denial of medical care.

Even in exile and diaspora, these communities continue to face discrimination; A clear reminder that feminist movements must center them.

🌺 As decolonial, intersectional feminists, we at Manushya Foundation commit to centering the leadership and lived realities of persons with disabilities in all our work.

A feminist future is one led by the communities most impacted at the center, not the margins.

#DisabilityJustice #IntersectionalFeminism #Decolonization #CollectiveLiberation