Carmelo Castro-Netsky and Julian Mithra
Be inspired to facilitate an accessible and inclusive community arts project through the case study of a mural developed and installed at the Ed Roberts Campus in South Berkeley, a hub for disability justice work. Through core principles, like slowness and emergent structure, attendees will accompany us through a circuitous path from concept to design to production to installation. The discussion harmonizes wisdom from community arts engagement (without a legacy of accessibility) and the collective wisdom from a cohort of artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities (who haven’t always been empowered in self-representation). What are the cognitive, creative, and construction tools that help interrupt capitalist demands for efficiency, expertise, or verbal communication? Join us to think critically about our relationship with each other and our bodies, nourishing the soil in which civic engagement grows by acquiring hands-on strategies for a site-specific project whose process and product are both accessible.
Sheela Ivlev, Dr. Lateef McLeod, Leroy F.Moore Jr., Nida Liftawiya
Across movements and borders, disabled communities of color have long resisted colonialism, racism, and ableism—not through institutions, but through each other. This panel shares global perspectives on what care looks like when systems abandon—or actively target—our communities.
Panelists will share stories where people have built liberatory forms of care with limited resources. We’ll explore how global disability justice movements are fighting co-optation, resisting supremacist systems, and reclaiming storytelling, culture, and healing as tools of resistance. This session is meant to spark action in building collective care grounded in resistance—not reform. It’s not about inclusion, it’s about liberation!
Leroy F. Moore Jr. introduces a documentary on police murder of disabled people.
