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This series was developed by the Office of Equity & Inclusion in collaboration with campus partners to provide the UMass Amherst community with foundational knowledge and language regarding disability as a social identity.
It is intended to provide access points for learning, reflection, and engagement for ALL community members, including people with disabilities and those who seek to be in active allyship.
As you explore this toolkit, click on any image or underlined text for links to additional resources!
This toolkit series invites the UMass community to…
- Consider what we know (or think we know!) about disability,
- Explore the impact of socialization and dominant cultural narratives on our understanding of disability,
- Practice applying disability justice as a lens that will continually ask us:
- What does it mean to think and act in anti-ableist ways?
- How does disability interact with other aspects of social identity, particularly for community members who experience marginalization around multiple sites of identity?
- How can we treat disability justice as a way of perceiving the world, not just an inclusivity “checklist item”?