Intersectionality: Many disabled people experience other forms of oppression in addition to ableism. The experience of disability is shaped by race, gender, class, and more.
Leadership of the most impacted: The most oppressed lead our movement because they know the most about how systems of oppression work.
Anti-capitalist politic: We don’t conform to capitalist systems that profit from us. Human worth does not rely on how much a person can produce.
Commitment to cross-movement organizing: We work with other movements to shift views on ableism and disability.
Recognizing wholeness: We have value beyond capitalist standards of work. Disabled people are whole people.
Sustainability: We work at a pace that promotes ongoing justice and liberation and values the teachings of our lives and bodies.
Commitment to cross-disability solidarity: We join together to accomplish more. Isolation harms us all.
Interdependence: We help each other achieve liberation for all living systems and the land. Government solutions control us more.
Collective access: We share the responsibility to create community with each other by making access a way of life for all.
Collective liberation: No one is left behind; we need each other to achieve freedom.
