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Center for Racial and Disability Justice
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Promoting justice for people of color, people with disabilities, and individuals at the intersection of race & disability. Based at Northwestern Law. Reposts not endorsements. https://linktr.ee/nlawcrdj
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A dark blue slide with the Center for Racial & Disability Justice logo and the heading “What Can You Do?” The text encourages ensuring people have what they need to live safely and with dignity before expanding MAiD. It promotes the “10 Minutes a Day” resource and includes a link to CRDJustice.org/MAiD.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A teal slide titled “False Autonomy” with an illustration of a person being controlled by puppet strings. The text states that if inequity drives the decision, it is coercion, and that true compassion means expanding care and access rather than normalizing death as the response to inequality.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A dark blue slide titled “Medical Framing” with an illustration of a person walking on hanging chart indicators. The text says doctors’ assumptions about disabled people’s quality of life shape who is offered MAiD, turning care decisions into moral judgments and making compassion become discrimination.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A teal slide titled “Poverty & Racism Shape ‘Choice.’” The text explains that racism, poverty, and disability bias narrow people’s options, especially for Indigenous and racialized disabled people, and that offering MAiD when care is denied is abandonment, not choice.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A dark blue slide titled “Coercion Through Neglect” with an illustration of a hand holding a gavel breaking through a surface. The text states that many disabled people who apply for MAiD cite poverty, homelessness, or inadequate care, and when survival depends on resources the state denies, consent becomes coerced.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A teal slide titled “Structural Inequity” with an illustration of people positioned on different economic tiers. The text explains that access to health care, housing, and support is unequal, and when people lack these necessities, MAiD becomes a response to structural neglect rather than free will.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A dark blue slide with the heading “Is It Really About Choice?” An illustration shows a person standing in front of several open doors. The text explains that while MAiD supporters frame the issue as autonomy, for many disabled, poor, and racialized people, “choice” doesn’t exist when inequity shapes the options.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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MAiD is often framed as autonomy, but when people lack care, housing, and support—and when poverty, racism, and disability bias shape their choices—autonomy isn’t real. Real autonomy depends on expanding care and access, not turning to MAiD to solve inequality.

Learn more: CRDJustice.org/MAiD [1/8]
A teal slide with a large white number “2” and the text “Report Out: The Myth of Choice.” To the right is the cover of CRDJ’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Report featuring three people sitting together and smiling. A large white arrow is in the bottom right corner.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Our Fall 2025 Newsletter is here! 🍂🦔

Read the full fall newsletter and sign up to get future CRDJ updates, resources, and opportunities straight to your inbox.

Fall newsletter link: tr.ee/oHkJVuM2Ie
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#DisabilityJustice #RacialJustice
A dark gray graphic with large cream-colored text that reads “CRDJ’s Fall Newsletter Is Here!” The word “Fall” is in orange. Below, smaller text says “A Season of Reflection, Resistance, & Renewal.” Orange fall leaves are scattered along the bottom left, and the Center for Racial & Disability Justice logo appears in the bottom right. A dark gray graphic with the Center for Racial & Disability Justice logo at the top left and an illustrated envelope with a notification bubble at the top right. Text reads: “Read our Fall Newsletter and subscribe to get CRDJ updates, resources, and opportunities delivered to your inbox!” An orange arrow points to an orange banner across the center with the URL “CRDJUSTICE.ORG.” At the bottom, a cute illustrated hedgehog holds a fall leaf as more leaves fall around it.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Navy background with the Center for Racial and Disability Justice logo at the top. Large text reads: “WHAT CAN YOU DO?” followed by: “Racial justice demands that every community has equal access to care, dignity, and the right to live. Check out 10 Minutes a Day for more info!” A yellow and blue box labeled “10 Minutes a Day” is displayed below. Footer text reads: “Learn more at CRDJustice.org/MAiD,” with a pointing hand emoji.
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Teal background with white and light blue text titled “PREVENTION CONTRADICTIONS.” Illustration at the top shows a person sitting with their head in their hands. Text reads: “In practice, MAiD targets those failed by the system. A two-tiered system of life and death... For privileged groups, society intervenes to prevent suicide. For racialized disabled people, it is facilitated.” Footer includes CRDJ icons and “CRDJustice.org | 7.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Navy background with white and light blue text titled “POVERTY & RACISM AS ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS.” Illustration of a large hand placing a roof over a couple embracing on their doorstep. Text reads: “Systemic inequities don’t shape who can access MAiD — they shape who feels forced to. When people can’t afford accessible housing, home care, or basic health services, death starts to look like the only option. This isn’t choice. It is structural coercion built from racism and ableism.” Footer includes CRDJ icons and “CRDJustice.org | 6.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Teal background with white and light blue text titled “DISPARITIES IN DATA & CARE.” Illustration shows two people in conversation across a table, with icons for money, a shield, and health around them. Text reads: “We don’t have clear data on how race and ethnicity shape MAiD access — and that’s a problem. What we do know: structural racism, poverty, and medical bias limit access to care and increase vulnerability to coercion. When data are missing, injustice hides in plain sight.” Footer shows CRDJ icons and “CRDJustice.org | 5.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Graphic titled “CORE CONCERNS” with white and light blue text on a navy background. Illustration at the top shows two hands holding a tangled thread. Text reads: “Indigenous communities identified key harms,” followed by a numbered list: (1) Lack of access to care, (2) Systemic racism & medical distrust, (3) Conflict with suicide prevention, (4) Cultural conscience & spiritual harm, (5) Lack of cultural competence, (6) Jurisdictional barriers, (7) No meaningful consultation. Footer includes CRDJ icons and “CRDJustice.org | 4.”
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Teal background with bold white and light blue text titled “INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES.” A red handprint graphic with the words “INDIGENOUS LIVES MATTER” appears at the top. Text reads: “For many Indigenous communities, MAiD feels like neocolonialism... It echoes a history of medical abuse, forced sterilization, and disregard for Indigenous sovereignty in health and end-of-life care. What’s called ‘choice’ for others becomes structured abandonment for Indigenous peoples.” Footer includes CRDJ icons and “CRDJustice.org | 3.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Graphic with a navy background and bold white and light blue text that reads: “SYSTEMIC INEQUITY = COERCED CONSENT. When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, ‘choice’ isn’t freedom. IT IS COERCION.” An illustration on the right shows a man and woman balancing gold coins on a scale. Icons for liking, sharing, and saving posts appear at the bottom, with “CRDJustice.org | 2.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, “choice” isn’t freedom—it’s coercion. CRDJ’s MAiD Report exposes how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape who feels forced into MAiD, and how injustice hides in plain sight.

Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]
Graphic with a teal background and large text reading “1 REPORT OUT Racial Justice & MAiD.” To the right is the cover of CRDJ’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Report, featuring three people smiling together while holding mugs. The Center for Racial and Disability Justice logo appears at the top right. Text at the bottom reads “CRDJustice.org | 1,” with a white arrow icon in a navy circle.
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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📣 Now available: CRDJ’s Inclusive Disaster Relief Toolkit! Building on our guide, this Toolkit applies a lens of racial & disability justice to reimagine disaster relief with new research, policy tracking, & design tools for inclusive planning & recovery. www.crdjustice.org/inclusive-di...
Cover image for CRDJ’s Building Inclusive Disaster Relief 2.0: A Toolkit on Disability Justice in Recovery & Rebuilding. The background shows a wildfire blazing through trees under a smoky evening sky. Bold white and yellow text reads: “BUILDING INCLUSIVE DISASTER RELIEF 2.0 – A Toolkit on Disability Justice in Recovery & Rebuilding.” The Center for Racial & Disability Justice logo appears in the bottom right corner.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The police killing of Sonya Massey shows how disability, race, and gender converge in deadly encounters—and why we must reimagine crisis response around care, not control.
Read our new blog: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/when-a-call-...

#DisabilityJustice #SonyaMassey
A graphic from the Center for Racial & Disability Justice shows a still from police body-camera footage of a woman standing in her doorway at night, holding a phone and facing a sheriff’s deputy in dark tactical gear. Warm indoor light contrasts with the dark porch. Text below reads: “When a Call for Help Becomes Lethal: The Case of Sonya Massey and the Criminalization of Disability — by CRDJ Staff → Medium,” with key phrases highlighted in red.
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Swing was more than music—it was resistance in motion.

Born in Black communities under Jim Crow, swing became a sound of joy, improvisation, and collective defiance.

📝 Read our new blog, “A Rhythm of Resistance,” at nlawcrdj.medium.com/a-rhythm-of-... [1/2]
A stylized vintage illustration shows a Black man in a 1940s suit and fedora leaping midair while playing a double bass, surrounded by crowds of people marching and cheering on both sides. Airplanes fly overhead against a tan background, evoking the energy of swing-era resistance. At the top left, the “Center for Racial & Disability Justice” logo appears in white. Below the image, the blog title reads: “A Rhythm of Resistance: Swing Is More Than Music—It Is Resistance in Motion,” followed by “by CRDJ Staff” and the Medium logo.
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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📢 New Article & Toolkit!

CRDJ’s Dr. Kate Caldwell & Prof. Jamelia Morgan published “DisCrit Legal Studies: A Method for Legal Analysis” in Wayne State Law Review. It introduces DCLS—a framework uniting Disability Justice & Critical Race Theory to reveal how law reinforces ableism & racism. [1/3]
The image features a promotional graphic with a purple gradient background announcing a new publication and toolkit. At the top left, large white and light-blue text reads “New Article & Toolkit!” In the top right corner is the Wayne State Law Review logo, consisting of a white shield-shaped “W” icon above the words “WAYNE STATE Law Review.” Centered in the image is an open silver laptop displaying the DisCrit Legal Studies webpage. On the laptop screen, a white banner with purple text reads “DisCrit Legal Studies,” with a blue subtitle underneath that says “A Method for Legal Analysis.” Below the banner are three blue panels labeled “Matrix,” “Worksheet,” and “Rubric,” each with a small circular button labeled “Download.” At the bottom of the image, white text on a black marble-textured background reads “Contact us if you need an access copy.” In the lower right corner, a small white globe icon appears next to the web address “CRDJustice.org/DCLS.”
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Slide titled “References.” The page lists citations in black text on a beige background. It includes: Annamma, S. A., Ferri, B. A., and Connor, D. J. (2022). DisCrit Expanded: Reverberations, Ruptures, and Inquiries. Teachers College Press. Cannon, Y., and Tuchinda, N. (2023). “Critical Perspectives to Advance Educational Equity and Health Justice.” The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 50(4), 776–790. Gurakar, M. (2024). “Race, Disability, and Police Misconduct: A DisCrit Approach to Privacy Law and the Killings of Ryan Gainer and Sonya Massey.” Columbia Law Review Forum, 124(8), 221–243. Morgan, J. (2022). “Toward a DisCrit Approach to American Law.” In S. A. Annamma, B. A. Ferri, and D. J. Connor (Eds.), DisCrit Expanded: Reverberations, Ruptures, & Inquiries (pp. 13–30). Teachers College Press.
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Background features a black-and-white cityscape of tall buildings beneath a cloudy sky. In the top left corner, the orange logo reads “CENTER FOR RACIAL & DISABILITY JUSTICE.” The central white box text reads, “The future of disability rights law is to move from disability rights to disability justice.” Below, a black banner with white text says, “For more information, read ‘Toward a DisCrit Approach to American Law.’”
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Header reads “DisCrit in American Law.” Large centered quote text states, “Incorporating a DisCrit approach provides opportunities to better ensure legal guarantees under constitutional law and federal disability rights laws for multiply marginalized people of color.” Portions of the text, “a DisCrit approach provides opportunities to better ensure legal guarantees,” are highlighted in orange. The background is light beige with simple black text.
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Header “DisCrit in American Law.” Title “Significance.” Subheading “What does DisCrit reveal to us about American law?” Bulleted points state that criminal laws continue to marginalize people of color, color-evasiveness dominates constitutional equality jurisprudence, and current legislative measures fail to address root causes of inequality.
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