Struggle Care

45: Best of You can't save the rainforest if you're depressed with Imani Barbarin

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I’m excited to introduce you to today’s guest. Imani Barbarin is a disability rights and inclusion activist and speaker who uses her platform for conversations around the disability community. I’ve followed her for a while on TikTok and appreciate the way she expresses her opinions and helps educate the rest of us. Come join us now!


Show Highlights:

  • How Imani explored and discovered her passion for advocacy for disability and inclusion rights
  • How climate change and disability are linked
  • Why environmental ableism is a real thing
  • How people have become victims of their non-nuanced thinking, only wanting to be on the “right” side
  • Why the COVID pandemic has become a “mass-disabling” event, especially regarding mental health
  • Examples of ways in which the environmental movement has left those with disabilities behind
  • Why society has a general disdain for disabled people and believes that they don’t (or won’t) contribute to society
  • How the luxury of abled people trumps the necessity of the disabled
  • What the function of capitalism is on disabled bodies
  • How disabled people are used as pawns in the pro-choice/pro-life debate
  • Why there is inherent racism in the pro-life movement
  • What laziness is and is not


    • Resources:

    Connect with Imani: Website and Instagram

    Resources mentioned: https://www.sinsinvalid.org, https://disasterstrategies.org, https://www.americanprogress.org 

    Connect with KC: TikTok and Instagram

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