We will talk about the creation of Detroit Disability Power as part of an effort to ensure local movements for social change are rooted in disability justice analysis and practice. We’ll discuss ways to diversify leadership and perspective, and increase chances of winning issue campaigns, through an intentional and strategic disability consciousness.

• Examine our own assumptions about disabled people’s role in social change and politics
• Better understand how an intersectional disability justice approach can improve the lives of disabled people and also help propel other social justice movements.