Bay Area Resources
- Bay Area Autism Collective (BAAC)BAAC is an intersectional, autistic-led group that provides peer to peer support services to autistic adults.
- Creative GrowthNon-profit organization based in Oakland, California that advances the inclusion of artists with developmental disabilities in contemporary art and strengthens community by providing a supportive studio environment and gallery representation.
- Disability Justice Culture Club (DJCC)DJCC is a collective of disabled and/or neurodivergent queer people of color operating out of East Oakland.
- Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually ImpairedRooted in blindness positivity and disability justice, Lighthouse promotes independence, community, and equity created by and with blind and low vision people.
- Paul K. Longmore Institute on DisabilityThe Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University studies and showcases disabled people's experiences to revolutionize social views.
- Senior and Disability ActionThrough individual support and collective action, San Francisco Senior and Disability Action mobilizes and educates seniors and people with disabilities to fight for individual rights and social justice.
- Sins InvalidSins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.
Community-Generated Resources
- BirdabilityThrough education, outreach and advocacy, Birdability works to ensure the birding community and the outdoors are welcoming, inclusive, safe and accessible for everybody. Birdability focuses on people with mobility challenges, blindness or low vision, chronic illness, intellectual or developmental disabilities, mental illness, and those who are neurodivergent, deaf or hard of hearing or who have other health concerns.
- Black Disability Justice SyllabusSins Invalid offers the Black Disabled Futures Month Syllabus as an opportunity to honor the legacies of Black disabled artists, thinkers, activists, and leaders and a tool for future work.
- Disability Justice: An Audit Tool“Disability Justice: An Audit Tool” is aimed at helping Black, Indigenous and POC-led organizations (that are not primarily focused around disability) examine where they’re at in practicing disability justice, and where they want to learn and grow. It includes questions for self-assessment, links to access tools, organizational stories and more.
- Leaving EvidenceLeaving Evidence is a blog by Mia Mingus, a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. Her blog has become a staple resource for anyone wanting to learn about disability and she has coined language and concepts such as “access intimacy,” “magnificence,” “politically and descriptively disabled” and “forced intimacy.”
- Simmons University Library Anti-Ableism GuideThe anti-abelism guide from Simmons University Library provides resources for resisting abelism and support resources for disabled folks.