How has COVID-19 emphasized that Disability Justice is necessary
How has COVID-19 emphasized that Disability Justice is necessary for radical change? This assignment asks you to outline how the COVID-19 crisis has worsened gendered/racialized/disability disparities, AND how these groups have been at the forefront of change.
How has COVID-19 emphasized that Disability Justice is necessary for radical change?
COVID-19 has disproportionally impacted disabled, BIPOC, (cis) women and gender-diverse (trans, non-binary, and genderqueer) people.
This assignment asks you to outline how the COVID-19 crisis has worsened gendered/racialized/disability disparities, AND how these groups have been at the forefront of change.
How has COVID-19 emphasized that Disability Justice is necessary for radical change?
Using the format of your choice (essay, letter, blog post, Instagram post, etc.), your assignment should do the following:
Present a connection between COVID-19 and systemic oppression (whether it is ableism, sexism, racism, cissexism, heterosexism, or a combination)
Use Sins Invalid’s 10 Tenets of Disability Justice, showing how Disability Justice connects to this issue
Give at least one example of a person/group who has enacted parts of Disability Justice in their response to this topic related to COVID-19.
You will be graded on spelling and grammar, but the tone and format is up to you!
Please double-space and use font around 12-point.
You’re welcome to use first-person pronouns (I, me, my) and personal experience, but this is not required.
If you are having difficulty choosing a topic for this assignment, read over Goggin and Ellis (2020) (reading in week 2), or come to tutorial and ask for help from your professor, TAs, and peers.
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In addition, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that an outbreak of the viral disease COVID-19 – first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China – had reached the level of a global pandemic.
Lastly, citing concerns with “the alarming levels of spread and severity,” the WHO called for governments to take urgent and aggressive action to stop the spread of the virus.