Learn to identify, rethink and reframe everyday normalizing ableist practices that threaten wellbeing

Date: Thursday, November 14
Time: 5pm – 6pm EST
Location: Online
Cost: FREE

As a Black woman, living with disabilities, who bears multiple intersectionalities, while successfully navigating postsecondary education, Zahra’s academic work includes a critical exploration of the value of self-advocacy for people with disabilities. Zahra will employ her compelling public speaking personality to share the value of self-advocacy for peoples with disabilities and will emphasize the need for stakeholders and organizations supporting peoples with disability to recognize the importance of this value in their praxes.

Are you a high school student with invisible or physical disabilities, interested in going to College or University? Are you a parent of a child/children with disabilities who want to nurture the skill of self-advocacy? Are you an educator wanting to unlearn ableist teaching practices? Or you might want your organization to be a step ahead in enabling and modelling praxes that value self-advocacy of peoples with disabilities?

This spotlight enables high school and postsecondary students with disabilities, parents, educators, and community stakeholders to (1) reject traditional understandings and knowledges (racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic) that dehumanize people bearing the intersectionality of disability; and (2) learn new and empowering ways of enabling change and well-being.

You will learn critical skills of self-advocacy to enable living and thriving with disabilities. You will learn new languages and knowledges for creating and enabling changes in your everyday life /organization/ profession/. You will learn to identify, rethink and reframe everyday normalizing ableist practices that threaten wellbeing.