Tools & Resources

Videos – Hmong – Family Support Network/HOPE (fsnhope.org) 

• Why Asian American Kids Are Under-Diagnosed When It Comes to Learning Disabilities

• 10 Principles of Disability Justice (SIns Invalid) 

• 10 Books on Disability Justice

• January 2021 Working Definition of Ableism (Talila “TL” Lewis)

• The Social Model of Disability Explained: Medical Model and the Social Model: The social model says that individual limitations are not the cause of disability. Rather, it is society’s failure to provide appropriate services and adequately ensure that the needs of disabled people are taken into account in societal organization. Simply constructing sidewalks and entrances that are wheelchair accessible, for example, can turn a disability into an ability. 

• The Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) is a biennial national conference that centers the multiple oppressions that shape the lived experiences of disabled individuals, as told by disabled people, in a setting organized by disabled activists: Places to Start When Approaching Accessibility (Disability Intersectionality Summit)

• Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet (Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective)

• This guide will help you make your own Mad Map. Mad Maps are documents that we create for ourselves as reminders of our goals, what is important to us, our personal signs of struggle, and our strategies for self-determined well-being:  Mad Map Guide (Icarus Project/Fireweed Collective)

• Hmong – Culture Care Connection

• Disability Impacts All of Us Infographic | CDC 

Disaster Justice Guidebook PDF: A Disaster Justice Guidebook for People of Color with Disabilities
Authored by Justice Shorter & Offered by SeededGround. This guidebook is dedicated to any person of color with a disability who has ever lived through crisis. Every word, every single sentence, was written in honor of the world you deserve. Let this guidebook serve you in whatever ways you need it to.