Day 1: Disability – Concept & Identity

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Before we begin…

Welcome, community members! Before we dive into the Racial Justice Challenge, let’s take a moment to reflect on the power of knowledge, empathy, and collective action.

At YWCA Spokane, we believe understanding and addressing racial injustice starts with education, introspection, and open dialogue. Our Racial Justice Challenge is designed to be a catalyst for change, an opportunity to explore, learn, and grow together as a community.

Let’s be curious, compassionate, and ready to take meaningful steps toward a more just and equitable society. Remember, change doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a process, a journey that requires commitment and willingness to challenge our own perspectives.

What To Expect

The Racial Justice Challenge is accessible at anytime to anyone interested in learning more about racial equity and social justice and examining these issues in our own communities. This 10-day virtual learning series offers daily prompts that will be shared via email as well as on our website. Each challenge will dive into a topic and provide articles, videos, and/or podcasts to check out. It is also designed to encourage reflection on your own personal experiences.

Businesses have the opportunity to engage employees, customers, and stakeholders in important conversations about race, inequality, and injustice. Participating in this Challenge demonstrates an alignment with corporate values, benefits the workforce, and contributes to a more equitable Spokane that we all deserve. Learn about how the Challenge provides a unique and transformative opportunity for businesses to engage in dismantling systemic racism, fostering inclusivity, and driving positive societal change.

LEARN MORE

What’s Included

• Resources to expand one’s learning journey
• Localized content included, covering 4 key topics of disability, housing, mental health, and music
• Ways to take action related to each topic
• Zusätzliche Ressourcen:
  • Daily Reflection log to capture key takeaways

  • Glossar

• (2) virtual discussion sessions at the end of each week
• (1) in-person post-challenge gathering to discuss takeaways and gather feedback
• Custom debrief sessions for businesses or groups going through the Challenge together

  (Please email equity@ywcaspokane.org if your group is interested in this additional offering.)

Don’t forget to tell your friends, family, and colleagues to join the YWCA Spokane Racial Justice Challenge at ywcaspokane.org/challenge!

We hope you are ready to create a better future, together

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Conceptualizing Disability

To advance equity for all, we must understand numerous social identities and their impacts on individuals, families, communities, organizations, and society at large. In this challenge, we focus on building an understanding of Behinderung, a social identity. This understanding must be integrated into an intersectional framework that emphasizes the ways in which individual social identities intersect and overlap, and the impact of these intersections.

Consider how you define disability. You’re not alone if you found this challenging. People often think about disability as a medical diagnosis, health condition, or set of symptoms.

A more robust definition used by the CDC emphasizes that disability has three dimensions: impairment, activity limitation, and participation restrictions.

How we define and think about disability more broadly has tangible impacts on our lives and our world. Models of disability provide frameworks that can help us understand our ways of thinking and consider how our conceptualization of disability impacts personal actions, organizations, and systems.

There are many models of disability. Arguably, the three most dominant are the moral, medical, and social models of disability. A major difference between models of disability is the meaning of disability, namely whether disability is a deficit or a social construct describing human diversity.

Disability Pride & the disabled community

The social model of disability nourished the disability pride movement, which is characterized by disabled people understanding, valuing, and connecting with their disabled identity.

The disabled community is expansive and internally diverse. There are many types of disabilities; a single type of disability can impact different people in different ways; and the ways in which one disability impacts one person can change over time. Additionally, the disabled community includes individuals of all ages, races, ethnicities, genders, socioeconomic backgrounds, sexualities, religions, birthplaces, and living places.

Disability pride is growing within the community, even as ongoing ableist oppression and discrimination continues. To learn more about Disability Pride in Spokane, check out our Pathways Forward event with Inland Northwest Disability Experience Hier.

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WENN SIE HABEN…

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5 Minuten	Und	10 Minuten	Und	45 Minutes
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SCHAUEN SIE SICH DIESES VIDEO AN of Imani Barbarin, who shares her journey towards self-acceptance & how she advocates for greater inclusivity & understanding of disability.	Und	CHECK OUT THIS BLOG that discusses 3 models that underlie assumptions about disability, highlighting the need to shift away from a medical model.	Und	CHECK OUT THIS PODCAST about a mother-daughter duo that share the same physical disability as they talk about their relationship & their journey into activism.

 

Zusätzliche Ressourcen:

YWCA USA Disability Justice Report

Glossar

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REFLEKTIEREN

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Nehmen Sie sich einen Moment Zeit, um über die heutige Herausforderung und die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse nachzudenken.

• Laden Sie die vollständige Reflexionsvorlage zur Herausforderung der Rassengerechtigkeit herunter und füllen Sie sie aus Hier.
  • Zu berücksichtigende Fragen:
    • Welche Gefühle oder Emotionen habe ich beim Abschließen der heutigen Herausforderung bemerkt?
    • Was habe ich gelernt? (Das kann ein neues Konzept, eine neue Idee oder ein neues Wort sein.)
    • Warum ist dieses Thema/Fach wichtig?
    • Von welchen Verhaltensweisen und Glaubenssätzen möchte ich mich lösen?
• Erwägen Sie, Teile dieser Herausforderung mit einem Freund oder einer Gruppe zu teilen, um Ihr Verständnis der Informationen zu vertiefen.
• Join us Friday 9/22 at noon via Zoom for a Week 1 debrief session.

  Link zum Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84927226372?pwd=MFV6dDgrOTVGSFhGYm9UWWZ5UWFHZz09

  Besprechungs-ID: 849 2722 6372

  Passcode: letmein

• Setzen Sie die Konversation online fort und vernetzen Sie sich mit anderen, indem Sie unserem Facebook-Gruppe für Rassen- und soziale Gerechtigkeit.

Du bist gerade bei der Racial Justice Challenge dabei? Melde dich an und finde die vorherigen Tage Hier. Bitte nehmen Sie die Umfrage vor der Herausforderung - Es wird helfen Bereiten Sie Ihren Geist und Körper darauf vor, in diese rassistischen und sozialen Themen einzutauchen und geben Sie uns wertvolles Feedback für zukünftige Herausforderungen.

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Sources:

_{Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. (2020). Disability and health overview. cdc.gov. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/disability.html.}

_{Disabled World. (2023). Disability pride: Definition, awareness, flag. Disabled World. https://www.disabled-world.com/definitions/disability-pride.php.}

_{Olkin, R. (2002). Could you hold the door for me? Including disability in diversity. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 8(2), 130.}

_{Rajkumar, S. (2022). How to talk about disability sensitively and avoid ABLEIST tropes. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/08/1115682836/how-to-talk-about-disability-sensitively-and-avoid-ableist-tropes}

_{Rogard, K. R. (2020). How disability pride fights ableism. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disability-is-diversity/202008/how-disability-pride-fights-ableism}

Day 1 is authored in collaboration with Mia, a disabled community member. Graphic design by Lara Estaris.

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Die Arbeit für Rassengleichheit ist ständig unterfinanziert. Geben Sie ein starkes Zeichen im Kampf für Rassen- und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Ihr Beitrag unterstützt direkt Initiativen, die Gleichheit fördern, Diskriminierung bekämpfen und Einzelpersonen und Gemeinschaften stärken. Gemeinsam können wir eine integrativere und gerechtere Welt für alle schaffen. Machen Sie noch heute mit und bewegen Sie etwas!

UNTERSTÜTZEN SIE DIESE ARBEIT

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Besonderer Dank gilt unseren Missionspartnern

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Wenn Sie mehr über eine Partnerschaft mit YWCA Spokane zur Unterstützung dieser Racial Justice Challenge erfahren möchten, wenden Sie sich bitte per E-Mail an Erica Schreiber, Director of Community Engagement ericas@ywcaspokane.org oder telefonisch unter 509-789-8275.

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