Our Work

Our Focus

Our focus areas reflect the issues that most impact disabled people in the South. From political power to community care and systems change.

Criminalization

Criminalization

We challenge systems that criminalize disabled people through policing, incarceration, and surveillance.
Democracy

Democracy

We fight for accessible, inclusive democracy where disabled people can fully participate and lead.
Healthcare + Care Work

Healthcare + Care Work

We directly support community healthcare that meets immediate needs and strengthen collective resilience through mutual aid efforts, care webs, and direct care.
Employment + Poverty

Employment + Poverty

We address how poverty disproportionately impacts disabled people through policy change, advocacy, and community-centered solutions.
Technology

Technology

We are committed to ensuring technology serves as a tool for liberation, not oppression
Education
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Education

We fight for accessible, quality education ia a right, from preschool to higher education
Infrastructure
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Infrastructure

We are advocates for fully accessible public and community infrastructure, which is central to our Care Web support model.
Bodily Autonomy
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Bodily Autonomy

We believe all people should be able to make informed decisions about their own bodies without coercion or undue restriction.
Climate
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Climate

We call for better climate preparedness and climate change prevention, with planning viewed through an intersectional lens of disability

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Your donation makes an immediate and real impact in the lives of disabled Southerners through direct assistance and resources, education and organizing, critical research and reporting, and on-the-ground activism to fight for our legal rights.

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