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Workshop recording:  

Workshop description: An exploration of how saviorism harms the disability community and how to help meaningfully. Regina discusses the social, medical, and other models of disability and how framing affects the outcome felt by disabled people. The focus is on how our rights, opportunities, and laws are shaped by perceptions of disability, and by the efforts of pre-disabled saviors and white saviorism. Alternative solutions are explored, focusing on pre-disabled people fixing the problems they create, instead of fixing us. Finally, there is space for creativity and reflection on actions pre-disabled people can take instead of engaging in saviorism.

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

This is the first workshop in our Disabled Realities series — for the second workshop, see Disabled Realities: Crip Rage

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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.