Transformative Justice, Sexual Violence, and Disability Justice
Photo Credit: Franco Folini
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), join Men’s Peer Education for a lecture by Mia Mingus on the intersections of disability justice, sexual violence, and transformative justice.
As a queer, physically disabled woman of color, Korean transracial and transnational adoptee, writer, organizer, and community builder, Mia Mingus has worked with disability justice, reproductive justice, queer liberation, and transformative justice. Her work is concerned not only with responding creating safer, healing communities for survivors, but also transforming the social and institutional conditions that give rise to violence.
Much of her work can be understood in terms of disability justice, an emerging political framework rooted in the lived experiences of disabled people who have been largely excluded, silenced, and ignored by the mainstream disability rights movement. Led by disabled people of color, and specifically disabled queer, trans, and gender non-conforming people, disability justice offers a necessarily intersectional analysis of ablism, racism, class, and gender which has implications for all social justice movements.
We recommend reading this brief introduction on ablism and disability justice.
For wheelchair access from Broadway or Amsterdam Avenues, travel along College Walk (116th St) to Dodge Hall (nearer to Broadway) and use the elevator at the east end of building to access upper campus. University guests can alert a Public Safety officer, stationed on College Walk at both the Broadway and Amsterdam entrances, for assistance.
This event is sponsored by Men’s Peer Education (a program of Sexual Violence Response) and Disability Services (Morningside), and co-sponsored by ROOTEd, Femsex, Asian American Alliance, IvyQ, Radical College Undergraduates Not Tolerating Sexism, Students Against Mass Incarceration, Lucha, Columbia University Amnesty International Chapter, CUSSW Disability Awareness Caucus, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Office of Disability Services (Barnard) and Office of Access and Services for Individuals at Teacher’s College.