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Creative Disability Justice Exploration

TOPIC: Power

Learning Objectives: 

1. Students will explore the power dynamics in their own lives and community. 
2. Students will examine  the dynamics of power, and its role within the disability community. 
3. Students will apply the Principles of Disability Justice to the concept of power. 

Assignment Description: 

The purpose of this activity is to offer students an opportunity to reflect on power as it relates to disability justice. This assignment is designed to help you examine power and the role it plays in how the disability community is perceived within society. This assignment helps us explore different kinds of power that we have, don’t have, and are impacted by. 

Think about it. Power is everywhere, all the time.

• Think about school uniforms. How are school uniforms about power? Who has power in relation to them? Who is impacted the most and how? 
• What about being online? Who has power when you are accessing the internet? 
• What about your home? Where is power in your home or household? How are decisions made? 

Power doesn’t just exist between people, it moves on the levels of community, state, and nations. Changing the way power at these levels is used can be a longer process, as it may require changes to laws, policies, and enforcement.

Assignment Requirements:

For this assignment, you have the freedom to decide how you want to present your work. We are modeling the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to allow you the freedom and flexibility to present material in a way that works best for you. To receive full points, you must address/answer all of the questions listed below in some way and follow the rubric.  If you choose an artistic format, you must ensure that you address the questions (video recording, write-up, audio description, etc). There are many ways to complete this assignment:

• Essay
• Power Point
• Adobe Spark 
• Song
• Art
• Video

REMINDER: AS LONG AS YOU ADDRESS ALL OF THE POINTS LISTED BELOW, AND YOU FOLLOW THE RUBRIC, YOU WILL LIKELY RECEIVE FULL POINTS. 

Required Assignment Activity & Prompts: 

1. Listen to the following podcast episode –  The Heumann Perspective: What’s Next? Teaching and Learning Disability Justice with Lydia X.Z. Brown
   (Links to an external site.)(Listen for conversations of structural ableism that address how disabled people are systematically denied power and control over their lives.)
2. Where in your own life do you hold the most power? Explain.
3. Where in your life do you feel like you do not hold power? Why?
4. How do power structures/dynamics affect the disability community? Think about what we’ve discussed in this course.
5. How do current power structures/dynamics drive the disability justice movement?
6. Reflect on the podcast episode of The Heumann Perspective. Where does it seem that Lydia (and Judy) hold the most power? And where do they and the group they represent (disabled people) not hold power?
7. What solutions are presented that would facilitate equitable access to power?
8. What next steps can you and other members of society take in order to support those solutions?
9. In your opinion, why are the 10 Principles of Disability Justice (Links to an external site.) important to the disability community and its relationship to power?