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Workshop recording:  

Workshop description: An exploration into the systematic and personal barriers that disabled people face and how we continue to resist through peace and rage. We discuss how our community comes together despite the barriers and violence we face, highlighting the Crip movement. Rage against injustice is common in the disability community, we are justified in our anger and must navigate the cognitive dissonance of living in a world that is actively trying to push us out. Advice for practitioners on avoiding tone policing and addressing anger without repressing it will be shared, along with how to encourage feeling and expressing rage with the wide range of emotions we experience.

Info: 2 hour workshop with auto-generated live captions.

This is the second workshop in our Disabled Realities series — for the first workshop, see Disabled Realities: We need your help, but we don’t need saviors

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Speaker: Regina Hockert (they/them) is a Nonbinary, Queer, Disabled, Neurodivergent, white person who has been a disabled activist for over 6 years. They believe in unraveling theories and frameworks of disability where they align most with the social model of disability, and prioritize lived experiences over clinical opinions. This translates into community care and organizing, boots-on-the-ground activism, and creating resource webs. In their work—including writing university legislation, fighting for and serving in accessibility positions, and creating events with people including the late Judy Heumann—Regina prioritizes care, action, and community. They have a degree in Kinesiology from Cal Poly and minored in Dance and Queer Ethnic Studies, which shapes their intersectionality approach.