Next Year in Freedom Bibliography and Resource List

March 19, 2022 Jonah Aline Daniel

Next Year in Freedom Haggadah Supplements Bibliography, Thank Yous, and Resource List

In Spring 5782, as part of our Ritual Box offerings, we collaboratively developed a collection of Disability Justice themed Haggadah Supplements for inclusion in a Passover Seder. If you ordered a Ritual Box from us, you received specially printed versions of these supplements. These supplements were re-released in Spring 5783 in honor of collaborator mads deshazo and again in Spring 5784 with updated articles on Disability Justice and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 

Here is a link to the evolving Google Doc: tinyurl.com/nbchaggadah. Here's a 'text only' version of the Google Doc: tinyurl.com/nbchaggadahtext. Both Google Doc versions have screen reader, braille and screen magnifier support enabled. We will add resources and materials to the Google Doc supplements as they come across our desk but the main offerings will be staying the same.

Enclosed in the Next Year in Freedom Haggadah Offering:

• A Spoon on the Seder Plate Supplement by jonah aline daniel & mads deShazo @narrowbridgecandles @sickwitchherbs
• A Principles of Disability Justice 4 (but 10) Questions Supplement by mads deShazo & jonah aline daniel @narrowbridgecandles @sickwitchherbs
• A Dayeinu Supplement by carrie sarah kaufman @RosesAreSpread

Gratitudes

Thank you to Sins Invalid, Toby Kramer, Simonne Bonfatti,

Nomy Lamm Patty Berne, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Susan Raffo, 

Organizations and Project to Learn about and Support!

Disability Culture Club

OakCLT and the Disability Justice Culture Club (DJCC) are raising funds to acquire and permanently preserve the DJCC house - the home that Stacey Park Milbern purchased in 2018 to create both an affordable haven for low-income Disabled BIPOC in a rapidly-gentrifying Bay Area, and a radically accessible space in the East Bay for community building and movement work.

oakclt.org/djcc

@disabilityjusticecultureclub

Sins Invalid

Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.

sinsinvalid.org

@sinsinvalid

Ukraine Herbal Solidarity

Ukraine Herbal Solidarity is a grassroots response to the invasion of Ukraine. The project’s aspirational aims are:

• To support frontline organisers responding to the invasion
• To organise a mobile herbal clinic on the Ukrainian border
•  To provide herbal first aid tools to anarchist and anti-fascist fighting units in Ukraine
•  To connect evacuated refugees with a network of herbalists that can offer support where they are.

solidarityapothecary.org/ukraine

@solidarity.apothecary

Healing Histories Project

We are healers, medical practitioners, organizers, media makers, cultural and memory workers who believe that all deserve care and support during times of crisis, vulnerability & resistance. We come together to inform and shape a vision for collective care and safety while integrating models of wellness that seek to transform and intervene on medical violence, harms, and abuses rooted in racism and capitalism. We are engaging individuals, communities and institutions to remember these abuses and harms by catalyzing research, action and movement-building strategies. We do this through the creation of popular education tools, workshop curriculum, cultural and political events and more.

healinghistoriesproject.com

patreon.com/healinghistoriesproject

@changingfrequencies

Long Covid Justice Project

After 3 years of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is significantly more disabled and chronically-ill. As we saw with HIV/AIDS, disease outbreaks expose the need for large-scale change in healthcare, public health, and other unjust structures. Yet even as the pandemic continues to claim lives, we are pressured to return to a ‘business as normal’ that has never centered the needs of disabled and chronically ill people. In the third year of the pandemic, we must end practices and policies that ignore, and further marginalize, disabled and chronically-ill people. ⁠

springboardhealthlab.org/long-covid-justice

@longcovidjustice

Crips for eSims for Gaza

In the spirit of many disability justice crowdfunds, like Stacey Park Milbern’s collective fundraiser to buy the Disability Justice Culture Club in 2019, we are organizing this disabled (and ally) crowdfund to buy a shit ton of eSims.  ⁠

chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza

Recommended Articles

Palestine is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

...I come to the present moment in Palestine understanding what war and empire do. I am a disabled, autistic survivor from a forever-war country who has learned from and try to contribute to a deep Sri Lankan feminist humanism created by the courage of ordinary people insisting there is a third way, a way of peace, decolonization and justice. They do so out of all our disabled experiences of war and genocide – whether we call it disabled or not...

Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice by Alice Wong

...I’m no expert but I know what it means to be dehumanized, rendered disposable, and oppressed. I know that all people deserve freedom. I know that genocide is a mass disabling event and a form of eugenics. In a piece by Rabea Eghbariah that was rejected by the Harvard Law Review, “… does one have to wait for a genocide to be successfully completed to name it? This logic contributes to the politics of denial. When it comes to Gaza, there is a sense of moral hypocrisy…which mutes the ability to name the violence inflicted upon Palestinians. But naming injustice is crucial to claiming justice.” The fact that people are denying the genocide happening right before us and justifying it based on racial and religious superiority is difficult to fathom. If this isn’t genocide it is something far worse that is yet to be named...

Crips for eSims for Gaza by Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha & Alice Wong 

...Poet Rasha Abdulhadi, a disabled, queer Palestinian Southerner, invites us to do everything in our power to refuse the genocide against Palestinian people and in so doing, encourages us to make connections between our struggles and theirs.  In their bio in The Offing and elsewhere, they share, “Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it’s a handful, throw it. If it’s a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We can refuse with our every breath and action. We must.” As disabled people we owe our disabled kin in Gaza to get in the way...

The Pandemic Tried to Break Me, but I Know My Black Disabled Life Is Worthy by Imani Barbarin

... Since the start of the pandemic, unabashed ableism has run rampant among public health officials, the government, and social media. Although people with disabilities of the mind and body have historically faced marginalization, exclusion, and oppression long before now, COVID-19 and the subsequent safety guidelines have made overt the long-standing institutional and systemic inequalities that span across our culture, from the medical system to workplace policies. These complexities are exacerbated when race and other marginalized identities come into play, particularly for Black disabled people, as we also face racial health disparities, like the disproportionate misdiagnoses of Black people due to culturally insensitive medical education... 

Half Assed Disabled Prepper Tips for Preparing for a Coronavirus Quarantine by Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha

... I’ve compiled some lists, thoughts and strategies on the disabled prepping I’ve been doing. Like everything, this is a work in progress and some things may or may not work for or apply for you- take what works and leave the rest...  To me, the five cornerstones of prepping are Food, Health Supplies,Water, Fuel (for heating and eating), and Mutual Aid...

Disability Doesn’t Make Us Less Worthy of Life. COVID Policy Assumes It Does by Rabbi Elliot Kukla

…I fear that we’re moving toward a reality where it’s increasingly risky for many elders, sick and disabled people to leave their homes, with the able-bodied creating a strange new kind of public society without us, while online access to public spaces like college campuses and religious services wanes. This is tragically ironic in its carelessness. Disability justice activist and writer, Alice Wong, coined the phrase the “future is disabled” and the disabled author, Leah Lakshmi Piepenza-Samarsinha, has a book forthcoming by that title. This phrase speaks to a very tangible reality. Already, more than half of this country has a chronic illness, and almost one in four Americans is disabled. As the population ages and we face more disabling conditions, like long COVID and environmental illness, it seems likely that the majority of the population will be sick and/or disabled in the near future.

The mainstream world does not yet grasp just how much would be lost if public spaces became even less accessible due to endemic COVID. Just as (largely) able-bodied medical authorities vastly underestimate the happiness level of disabled individuals, able-bodied society, as a whole, underestimates the creativity, joy, innovation and connectivity of disabled culture. On a warming planet, as life gets more tenuous, disabled communities have some of the knowledge, experience and innovations needed for everyone’s future. My chronically ill life has taught me how to slow down, give and receive care, sit with uncertainty and love unconditionally. These skills are particularly valuable for life on this chronically ill planet…

10 Principles of Disability Justice by Patty Berne, Aurora Levins Morales, David Langstaff, and Sins Invalid

INTERSECTIONALITY “We do not live single issue lives” –Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world “invalid.”

LEADERSHIP OF THOSE MOST IMPACTED “We are led by those who most know these systems.” –Aurora Levins Morales

ANTI-CAPITALIST POLITIC In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds.

COMMITMENT TO CROSS-MOVEMENT ORGANIZING Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance.

RECOGNIZING WHOLENESS People have inherent worth outside of commodity relations and capitalist notions of productivity. Each person is full of history and life experience.

SUSTAINABILITY We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term. Our embodied experiences guide us toward ongoing justice and liberation.

COMMITMENT TO CROSS-DISABILITY SOLIDARITY We honor the insights and participation of all of our community members, knowing that isolation undermines collective liberation.

INTERDEPENDENCE We meet each others’ needs as we build toward liberation, knowing that state solutions inevitably extend into further control over lives.

COLLECTIVE ACCESS As brown, black and queer-bodied disabled people we bring flexibility and creative nuance that go beyond able-bodied/minded normativity, to be in community with each other.

COLLECTIVE LIBERATION No body or mind can be left behind – only moving together can we accomplish the revolution we require.

Bibliography

In addition to sources already listed above, for the Principles of Disability Justice 4 (but 10) Questions Supplement we referenced:

- Ten principles of disability justice published in WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, written by Patty Berne, Aurora Levins Morales, David Langstaff, and Sins Invalid