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Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities and the reality of disability justice cannot be separated from the fight to end the carceral system. People with disabilities face ableism within the health care system through medical violence, and neglect as well as within systems of policing. Black cis and trans women, gender non-conforming, and intersex, people with disabilities are increasingly vulnerable to being attacked, arrested, and incarcerated. Disability justice is an intersectional movement that combines the issues of ableism and the harms of the carceral state. This longstanding, generational war on Black people’s health and Black disabled people, is a central component of anti-Black racism.
Abolition is not only about eliminating the police, but imagining new systems that work to ensure a fair, equal society where there is no place for racism, ableism, or state violence.
This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we affirm that disability justice as a cornerstone of prison abolition. All Black people deserve excellent, free, equitable, and easily and physically accessible health care, delivered with dignity, and free from entanglement with systems of surveillance, policing, and punishment.
Visit m4bl.link/health to learn more about our vision for Black health and disabled people.
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