TWIR 8.14.22 #Disability Justice: Not Keeping the Peace or Sometimes Justice is Divisive

The Word Is Resistance

In this episode, Sharon Fennema explores Jesus' divisive ministry in the context of a lineage of prophetic voices resisting false peace, including disability justice activist Imani Barbarin. What is the ableist status quo that we are tempted to keep peace with? Where do we want to hold on to a negative peace that is complicit with and upholds racialized ableist capitalism? Where might we be failing to perceive the ways that the peace we long for was really the comfort afforded by able-bodied privilege? Support Disability Visibility Project founder and disability justice activist Alice Wong: https://gofund.me/acc13f11 Transcript available here: surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/