What Should Disability Justice Consider for Minoritised Disabled Families? Seminar

This talk is for anyone interested in the issue of equity in educational settings. The discussion will revolve around how whiteness functions as the background content for all analysis and will explore the ways in which exclusionary mechanisms are part and parcel of educational settings. We will take up an intersectional lens to unpack how minoritised disabled communities' experience exclusion. I will particularly focus on whose concerns can or should be counted as an 'educational' issue and how as educators, we should deconstruct home-school partnerships to move towards disability justice.

This talk pushes educational professionals and academics to critically evaluate their own assumptions about inclusive practices and consequently to enable a more positive relationship with minoritised families.

This talk asks educational researchers to let go of clear lines of demarcation between different disciplines as it risks us having an incomplete understanding of ethnic minority experiences at different intersections. As researchers and educators, we need to situate minoritised disabled communities in their own histories and backgrounds if we are truly committed to understanding their experiences.