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Anti-Ableism

Developing a whole practice to combating ableism. Anti-Ableism is strategies, theories, actions and practices that challenge ableism and counter ablesim and inequality, prejudices and discrimination based on developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disability.

"A system that places value on people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence, excellence and productivity". These concepts are connected to anti-Blackness, eugenics, colonialism, and capitalism, and this systemic oppression leads society to judge worth based on appearance or ability to conform."