Module 2: CCC and Leadership of the Most Impacted

by

Dr. Pau Abustan (they/siya)

Description:

• Comfy Cozy Community (CCC) teaching and learning is connected to disability justice tenet #2 of LEADERSHIP OF THOSE MOST IMPACTED: “We are led by those who most know these systems.” –Aurora Levins Morales

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Prior knowledge reflection:

• Name and list education, societal, and cultural leaders. Reflect on how many openly identify as BIPOC, low income, women, nonbinary, transgender, queer, sick, and/or disabled.

•  Why are there few widely known multiply marginalized education, society, and cultural leaders? How can educators encourage the growth of more multiply marginalized education, society, and cultural leaders?

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Essential questions:

• How can teaching and learning center the leadership, wisdom, and education, society, and cultural contributions of multiply marginalized communities?

• How can educators continue to educate themselves and each other in proactively supporting and cultivating the leadership of multiply marginalized communities?

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Objectives:

• To name, learn about, and teach about multiply marginalized leaders, communities, and issues.

• To continuously educate educators in learning how to recruit, retain, graduate, and support the next generation of multiply marginalized leaders leading multi-issue movements.

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Content:

• The Disability Visibility Project is an excellent example of a multiply marginalized led organization educators and their students can learn from. The Disability Visibility Project founded by disabled Asian American activist, Alice Wong, centers and cultivates the next generation of intersectional disabled leaders and wisdom meaning makers through get out the crip vote campaigns, encouraging civic participation, and the development and documentation of intersectional disabled led stories. Educators can invite their fellow educators, staff, and student to center lessons focusing on the intersectional multiply marginalized led work of Disability Visibility. To learn more, read Disability Visibility by Alice Wong.

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Effective classroom strategies:

• Educators can teach about multiply marginalized leaders and organizations and invite their learning communities to join and become involved in local multiply marginalized led organizations akin to Disability Visibility.

• Educators can continuously learn about ways to recruit, retain, and graduate multiply marginalized leaders, educators, and creators through following organizations such as Disability Visibility and more which share ways how to be in solidarity with intersectional disabled communities through cultivating affirming spaces of support and transforming society to have built in care systems for all.

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References:

• Wong, Alice (Ed.). Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty First Century. New York: Penguin Random House, 2020.