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Why feminist movements will fail without disability justice #DisabilityPrideMonth ๐ŸŒโœŠ

Writer: Manushya Foundation
Manushya Foundation
Jul 14
1 min read

To exist is to resist! Disability Justice IS Feminist Justice.



๐Ÿ“ฃ Disability rights organiser and artist Patricia Berne reminds us,

"We cannot comprehend ableism without grasping its interrelations with heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism."

๐—™๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜†๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† through trauma, injury, and denial of care.


Working class, racialized, and Indigenous women bear the heaviest burden of this intersecting, systemic violence. We see these larger forces at play in the weaponized starvation in Gaza, the atrocities against the Rohingya, and a capitalist prison-industrial complex that profits off the medical neglect of incarcerated people.


๐ŸŒบ A truly decolonial and intersectional feminist movement shifts the most impacted communities from the margins to the center.


โžก๏ธ Browse through the photos to read the breakdown.


#WeAreManushyan โ™พ๏ธ Equal Human Beings


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