Thank you for your interest in joining Funders for Justice's (FFJ) Disability Carceral State Institute.
About the 2023 Disability Carceral State Institute:This is a two-part series using small group break outs, informal political education conversations, and stakeholder stories. It will cover and engage participants around the following key themes:
- A top-level overview of how Ableism operates as a hub of multiple supremacy systems: anti - Black racism, misogyny, hatred of the poor, and transphobia as examples working to underpin and feed mass incarceration, state control, population control, and violence.
- How DJ aligned philanthropic commitments are needed to resource the strategic opportunities, narrative shifts, leadership development and organizing potential in support of disability informed abolition work.
- An examination of the core elements, political analysis and identification that make up the "Disability Carceral State" and how a DJ informed abolition movement will create more holistic analysis, robust strategy, and campaigns .
When:
Session 1: October 3, 2023 @ 9a-11:30pm PT / 10a-12:30pm MT / 11a-1:30PM CT/ 12-2:30pm ET
Session 2: October 4, 2023 @ 9a-11:30pm PT / 10a-12:30pm MT / 11a-1:30PM CT/ 12-2:30pm ET
Registration: $300, per participant
A link to pay is on the second page of this registration form.
This training is designed for staff, board members, grants panelists, and donors of grant-making institutions, donor networks, and funder affinity groups. Please share with your networks through email and word of mouth, but do not post this training on social media or on a website, as part of FFJ's baseline security practices.Contact yark@funders4justice.org to discuss reduced registration rates or for any questions.
About the Disability Project:
The Disability Project breaks isolation, grows connection, builds leadership and infrastructure for trans and queer disability, Deaf, ill and Mad communities, while increasing Disability Justice capacity in the movements that seek to serve them. The Disability Project is staffed by a multi-racial, cross-class, cross-disability and multi-generational disabled, trans & NBY team. Ericka A. Dixon and Sebastian Margaret together co-lead the project’s work and strategy. We believe that work about ableism is work about Eugenics, state control, and supremacy and because of that is inherently abolitionist.
About FFJ:
Funders for Justice (FFJ) is a national funder organizing platform focused on grassroots organizing led by and for people of color at the intersections of racial justice, gender justice, economic justice, ending criminalization, and building models for community safety and justice. Learn more at https://www.funders4justice.org. 