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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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If I may; another take from personal perspective: #SonyaMassey #Disability #MentalHealth

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Sonya Massey’s Life Mattered: Calling for Help, Risking Harm: The 911 Crisis for Black Lives
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November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Thank you for sharing! We really appreciate your perspective 🙌
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Check out our accompanying playlist, Resistance Rhythms. It celebrates the music that carried defiance, joy, and survival across generations—where every beat reminds us that movement itself can be resistance.

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Those classic swing vibes are more than music, they're the rhythms of resistance in motion! Connect with past musical eras through CRDJ's reflection of music...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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💻 Explore the Toolkit: CRDJustice.org/DCLS
📚 Need an access copy of the article? Email crdj@law.northwestern.edu [3/3]#DisCriti#DisabilityJusticec#CriticalRaceTheoryry
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Alongside the article, we’ve released the DCLS Toolkit—featuring the Matrix, Worksheet, and Rubric—to help scholars, advocates, and students apply the DCLS method in legal research, writing, and teaching. [2/3]
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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For more on this framework, read “Toward a DisCrit Approach to American Law” by Jamelia Morgan (@jamelia.bsky.social) in DisCrit Expanded: Reverberations, Ruptures, and Inquiries by Subini Annamma (@drsubini.blacksky.app), Beth Ferri, and David Connor.

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October 23, 2025 at 10:52 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.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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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.’”
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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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.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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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.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Header “DisCrit in American Law.” Title “Legacies of Ableism and Racism.” Subheading “How do we see these legacies manifest today?” Bulleted points note race-based subordination in the juvenile justice system, school-to-prison pipeline, and IDEA enforcement; disability not being centered in Fourth Amendment analysis; and Eighth Amendment protections being weak for disabled people.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Header “DisCrit in American Law.” Title “Deep Dive Into History.” Subheading “How have racism and ableism worked in tandem to marginalize people across history?” Bulleted text lists four points: legal rulings like Johnson v. M’Intosh legitimized land theft by reclassifying Native land ownership; Black bodies were commodified through ableist assessments (disability seen as a defect); racial ideology and ableist logic legitimized enslavement of Black people and the violent removal of Native American people; and ableist tropes of Indigenous people as lazy or ignorant justified violent dispossession and displacement.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Header “DisCrit in American Law.” Main text says “Using DisCrit’s tenets (identified in the previous post), we can use DisCrit as a lens to analyze how ableism and racism are mutually constitutive and collusive.” A grayscale statue of Lady Justice appears in the bottom right corner.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Header “DisCrit in American Law.” Title reads “2. Provides a Framework to Understand How the Law has Perpetuated Subordination.” Text reads “By offering intersectional tools for legal analysis, DisCrit deepens our understanding of systemic inequality and opens new pathways for critically engaging with American law across history and legal domains.” A soft orange gradient fills the upper corner.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM