Summary Of Mia Mingus Changing The Framework: Disability Justice
Topic: Mia Mingus in her article “Changing the Framework: Disability Justice, How our communities can move beyond access to wholeness” advocates how the issue with society in regards to the treatment of the disabled community is not just about access, but also about understandment. She calls for her audience to question the stigma of disability and move to an integrated society. A society united with interdependence within various communities to be part of a collective disability justice movement.
Argument: Mingus’ argument in her article is that the disabled community is often very misunderstood by the abled body community who do not face the same oppression and challenges. Often the disabled community is seen through the medical model of
disability and Mingus argues that as a society this stigma that it has built needs to be changed because disabilities are just another unique way of living life and that disability justice as a whole needs to be re-thought. The author presents key concepts of moving toward interdependence and the power of disability justice to convince her audience of need to change the framework of disability and disability justice.
The author breaks down the idea of independence put forth by society which models accessibility and as a result typically excludes disabled individuals. Mingus challenges her audience to think about accessibility differently, to understand how accessibility would like in the lens of having an interdependence that encompasses every ability and intersectionality to have everyone’s needs meet.
A major influencer in radically questioning structure and accessibility has been through the power of disability justice. Mingus writes. “Disability justice activists are engaged in building an understanding of disability that is more complex, whole and interconnected than what we have previously found” (Mingus, 2). Within this activism, the author discusses how there is different disability movement and how they are affected by ableism differently. Mingus pushes for disability justice to include intersectionality to incorporate an interdependency in the disability justice movements themselves to cultivate spaces that includes everyone.
The author concludes her article by advocating disability justice to not independent based off of a single issue, but to use an interdependent model because many individuals face intersectionality and fall into many different issues. The author concludes with, “I imagine places where we fight for whole and connected people, families and communities.”
Argument: Mingus’ argument in her article is that the disabled community is often very misunderstood by the abled body community who do not face the same oppression and challenges. Often the disabled community is seen through the medical model of
disability and Mingus argues that as a society this stigma that it has built needs to be changed because disabilities are just another unique way of living life and that disability justice as a whole needs to be re-thought. The author presents key concepts of moving toward interdependence and the power of disability justice to convince her audience of need to change the framework of disability and disability justice.
The author breaks down the idea of independence put forth by society which models accessibility and as a result typically excludes disabled individuals. Mingus challenges her audience to think about accessibility differently, to understand how accessibility would like in the lens of having an interdependence that encompasses every ability and intersectionality to have everyone’s needs meet.
A major influencer in radically questioning structure and accessibility has been through the power of disability justice. Mingus writes. “Disability justice activists are engaged in building an understanding of disability that is more complex, whole and interconnected than what we have previously found” (Mingus, 2). Within this activism, the author discusses how there is different disability movement and how they are affected by ableism differently. Mingus pushes for disability justice to include intersectionality to incorporate an interdependency in the disability justice movements themselves to cultivate spaces that includes everyone.
The author concludes her article by advocating disability justice to not independent based off of a single issue, but to use an interdependent model because many individuals face intersectionality and fall into many different issues. The author concludes with, “I imagine places where we fight for whole and connected people, families and communities.”