A Primer: Disability Justice In the Age of Mass Incarceration

Talila "T.L." Lewis at Affect 2017

Transcript

1. DISABILITY JUSTICE IN 
 THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION A PRIMER: @talilalewis
2. CENTERING ALL OF ALL OF US Terrell Kareem Johnson Portland John T. Williams Seattle Vanessa Barrows Boise
3. MASS INCARCERATION A UNIQUELY AMERICAN CRISIS
5. RACE, CLASS, & DISABILITY.
6. (DIS)ABLEISM A system that decides who is valuable or worthy based on their appearance and/or their ability to produce, excel & “behave.”
7. OVER 1/2 OF THE PEOPLE KILLED
 BY “LAW ENFORCEMENT” ANNUALLY ARE DEAF/DISABLED.
9. OVER 60% OF ADULTS IN THE U.S. CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM 
 READ AT OR BELOW FOURTH GRADE LEVEL.
10. DISABILITY?
11. MEDICAL MODEL VS. SOCIAL MODEL
13. SCIENTIFIC RACISM-ABLEISM -“Intelligence” -Education -Literacy -Testing -“Achievement Gap” -Language
14. Trauma Poverty Disability
15. SO WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY INCARCERATED PEOPLE? -Racial inequity -Education inequity -Criminalization of poverty, disability, & the “other” -Unaddressed trauma -Capitalism (i.e., commodification of the “other”) “CRIME” IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
16. DISABILITY RIGHTS VS. DISABILITY JUSTICE
18. ACTION
21. FREEDOM PRIVILEGE