Crutches and Spice - Featured: Imani Barbarin

This workshop centers ableism. Imani Barbarin describes ableism as having always been the best way to perpetuate white supremacy under the guise of “progress for the disability community”. Now more than ever, white disabled people are presented with a choice: white supremacy or disability justice. Most disabled Black, Indigenous and people of color are firm trying to pull the disability community in the direction of justice, because whiteness has created the emergency, and there are disabled BIPOC in the building scrambling towards safety.
0:00: Opening
9:20: Speaker Introduction
12:15: Defining Disability & Ableism
17:19: Ableism in Action
21:09: Disability is Political and Ableism is a Tool for Oppression
24:48: Disability in the Bodies of Community
36:46: Advocate for Change
42:31: Q & A
Equity Conference is a chance for CFA members to connect for co-liberation. The now-annual event reflects the concerted efforts undertaken in the last several years to center Anti-Racism & Social Justice in all things CFA, beginning with the recognition that racism and white supremacy is institutionalized in our organization and a commitment to what we began calling our Anti-Racism & Social Justice Transformation.
CFA is an anti-racist, social justice union of 29,000 faculty members at the CSU.