Disability and Anarchism with Richard Amm

From The Final Straw Radio

In this segment we hear from Richard Amm, a member of the Disability Action Research Kollective, or DARK, which describes itself as a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. Amar and Richard speak about disability, eugenics, radical history the Corona virus and other topics.

Disabled Anarchists - An Introduction

From The Commoner

Disabled people have been active parts of every liberatory movement. Yet when their histories are recounted, disability is often excluded to avoid tarnishing their reputations. This widespread and harmful practice strips away the full humanity of these figures and reinforces disability as a stigmatising characteristic. This essay aims to celebrate the lives of disabled anarchists by reclaiming their histories and framing disability not as an individual shameful failure that undermines one’s agency, legitimacy and personhood, but rather, as a neutral characteristic within the natural variation of humanity, one which likely deeply impacted their life experiences and perspectives. This essay will provide brief biographies of several disabled anarchists, briefly outline how ableism is foundational to other forms of oppression and provide an outline of The Social Model of Disability.

Disabled Radicals Write In: Call for Submissions

From A Radical Guide

This project seeks volunteers to write a single-paragraph biography about a disabled radical. The aim is to raise awareness of disability history and disabled people’s involvement in radical social movements. The project output will be circulated as a zine. Volunteers may choose to write about any disabled person who was involved in challenging oppression and may write more than one.

Self and the Body, on Immediatism podcast

Immediatism offers readings of four essays on the body and the self. "Anarchism & the Body," by Michelle Campbell, is a call for more anarchists to contribute writing in this area. "Agency & the Body: On Body Positivity, Ressentiment, & Desire," by Rhyd Wildermuth, is a disclosure of Rhyd's own experiences growing up with a different body type and his thoughts around agency and fitness; as explained in length in a chapter of his upcoming book, Rhyd's view is that we ARE our bodies. "Access Intimacy: The Missing Link," by Mia Mingus provides a terminology for that feeling when someone really "gets" you based on a shared experience of disability or hardship. In Cory's view, noticing when we do or do not have access intimacy with a person can help us to realize when empathy is coming naturally and when it is not, and to identify whether the other person is being empathetic with us. Finally, "On Self-Love & Gun Powder," by Flower Bomb, recorded in response to a listener request, is on a nihilistic love for both chaos and the whole self.

Fifth Estate by request on Immediatism podcast

Here are five episodes of articles from Fifth Estate, by listener request. Immediatism intends to feature still-relevant articles from back-issues of both AJODA and Fifth Estate as regular programming from now on, right along with the books from Little Black Cart and other publishers/distros, and -- of course!-- listener requests.

Madness, Disability, and Abolition

From IGD

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with the author of the text, Madness, Disability, and Abolition, a two part series that ran on It’s Going Down which explored the history of the criminalization of madness and mapped out what an abolitionist approach might look like, along with examples of projects already being put into place.

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