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The Disability Pride Project
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| Ken and Jean Cavanaugh, activists with the Disability Pride Project |
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The Disability Pride Project generates radical action against violence and oppression within the disabilities community. We challenge the oppressive stereotypes that surround this community and explore ways of resistance that are educational, creative, and political. The Disability Pride Project increases our community's capacity to support survivors of sexual violence and bolsters community efforts to promote safety, support and liberation in a manner that challenges rape and oppression. We achieve this goal by fostering education through critical dialogue, strengthening coalitions between people with disabilities and our allies, and by supporting community action that increases awareness of sexual violence, safety, and informed decision-making.
The Disability Pride Project uses the following organizing strategies:
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Develop healthy sexuality workshops for people with disabilities. |
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Facilitate support groups for women with disabilities who are survivors of sexual assault. |
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Teach community specific peer advocacy and self-advocacy skills if they are assaulted or harassed. |
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Organize with activists with disabilities to compel the State of Washington to allow people with disabilities who are institutionalized against their will to live in community spaces. |
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Organize workshops for personal attendants and institutions about sexuality and sexual violence in the lives of people with disabilities. |
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Develop local and national resource list for sexuality and sexual violence for people with disabilities; and create an art forum focusing on issues of disability, body image, and sexuality. |
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Create opportunities for young women with disabilities to be mentored by older women with disabilities. |
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