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With the protests occurring in America and the Black Lives Matter movement it is important that we support our Indigenous brothers and sisters.

Intersectionality is:

The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

it is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities might combine to create unique modes of discrimination. Intersectionality identifies injustices that are felt by people due to a combination of factors.

Why it matters:

Why it is important for Australians with disabilities to support Indigenous Peoples in their fight for equality.

Supporting Indigenous Peoples in their fight for equality helps strengthen our communities while aiding to heal intergenerational trauma caused by colonisation. In doing so the disabled community will gain allies which will be of great help to us in our own fight for equality.  

Attend protests if it is safe for you to do so (not high risk of COVID-19), if you do attend protests, take necessary safety precautions . socially distance, wear a face mask and wash your hands often.

Sign petitions or donate to organisations that aim to combat racial injustice

Keeping safe and healthy during COVID-19

Physical wellness

Practice social distancing, wear a mask, avoid going out as much as possible, use online shopping to help you aquire

Go for a walk around the block, spend 5 minutes in the sun each day without sunglasses on to keep your vitamin D up. Sitting in the sunlight for 5 minutes a day has been scientifically proven to boost mood.

Do body weight exercises such as push-ups and punches to stay fit. You can use household objects as makeshift weights

Mental Wellness

Stay connected with friends and family though social media, video call people you love and care about.

Download headpsace mindfulness app

How to advocate for yourself to keep disability supports in place in a post-COVID world

Email the organisation and remind them that adjustments such as zoom meetings were made possible during the pandemic and there is no reason that this should have changed.

Australian Disability is an organisation proudly run and led by persons with disabilities, carers, professionals and guided by the wider community in a core belief in social inclusion and the fundamental human rights to equality, dignity, self-determination but above all to better society by reclaiming disability as an identity.

Australian Disability is an organisation proudly run and led by persons with disabilities, carers, professionals and guided by the wider community in a core belief in social inclusion and the fundamental human rights to equality, dignity, self-determination but above all to better society by reclaiming disability as an identity.

Australian Disability is an organisation proudly run  and led by persons with disabilities, carers, professionals and guided  by the wider community in a core belief in social inclusion and the  fundamental human rights to equality, dignity, self-determination but  above all to better society by reclaiming disability as an identity.

Australian Disability is an organisation proudly run and led by persons with disabilities, carers, professionals and guided by the wider community in a core belief in social inclusion and the fundamental human rights to equality, dignity, self-determination but above all to better society by reclaiming disability as an identity

Australian Disability is an organisation proudly run and led by persons with disabilities, carers, professionals and guided by the wider community in a core belief in social inclusion and the fundamental human rights to equality, dignity, self-determination but above all to better society by reclaiming disability as an identity.

Australian Disability is an organisation proudly run  and led by persons with disabilities, carers, professionals and guided  by the wider community in a core belief in social inclusion and the  fundamental human rights to equality, dignity, self-determination but  above all to better society by reclaiming disability as an identity.

Australian Disability is an organisation proudly run  and led by persons with disabilities, carers, professionals and guided  by the wider community in a core belief in social inclusion and the  fundamental human rights to equality, dignity, self-determination but  above all to better society by reclaiming disability as an identity.