Disability Justice

A framework developed by disabled queer and trans people of color — including Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, Stacey Milbern, Eli Clare, and Leroy Moore through Sins Invalid — that recognizes disability as intersecting with race, class, gender, sexuality, and other axes of oppression. Disability justice goes beyond the disability rights movement's focus on legal equality to address the structural, cultural, and economic conditions that create and maintain ableism. Its ten principles include intersectionality, leadership of the most impacted, anti-capitalist politics, cross-movement solidarity, and wholeness, recognizing that all bodies and minds are unique and essential.