Advancing Inclusive Justice Empowering Women & Gender-Diverse People with Disabilities & Addressing Many Forms of Oppression
The U.S. Gender and Disability Justice Alliance is a disability justice-oriented collective convening women and gender-diverse people with disabilities from across the United States together to take action on issues important to our community.
US Alliance members, some using wheelchairs and some standing, pose together in front of a large screen showing others joining virtually during the in-person convening in Washington, DC.
Our Mission Promoting Intersectional Justice for Women & Gender-Diverse People with Disabilities
We aim to educate policymakers, related human and civil rights organizations, and the larger community about pertinent issues that affect our lives as women and gender-diverse people with disabilities. We focus on issues that affect a cross-section of many different stakeholders.
Our work addresses ableism along with other relevant intersections of discrimination and prejudice such as racism, sexism, ageism, audism, transphobia, and heteronormativity. The Alliance is a safe, supportive, feminist, and disability justice-oriented space where members can connect with one another, and share experiences and insights.
Our Priority Issues Addressing Multiple Forms of Oppression
The Alliance is a safe, supportive intersectional feminist, and disability justice-oriented space where members can connect with one another, and share experiences and insights. Members agree to follow and support a set of shared values and rules through their words and actions.
Home and community-based services, accessible, affordable housing, de-institutionalization, and the right to have choice and control over our own lives as women and gender- diverse people with disabilities.
Sexual and reproductive health rights and justice including, parental rights and justice, the right to abortion healthcare and the right to gender-affirming healthcare.
Aligning with and educating human rights and justice organizations that do not specifically focus on disability, about disability, including the social and cultural aspects of disability, and how it intersects with other identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, etc.
Employment rights and justice for women and gender- diverse people with disabilities.
US Alliance members, two using power wheelchairs and one standing, gather outside near the Washington Monument during sunset at the in-person convening in Washington, DC.
How We Work Building Intersectional Solidarity
We meet virtually on at least a quarterly basis to discuss Alliance tasks. In addition to the official meetings we have at least two virtual or in-person social meet-ups per year. Alliance members maintain shared ownership over the space and its activities, and work on advocacy tasks together. Live closed captioning or automated closed captioning is provided at all meetings. Other access accommodations are available upon request. Honorariums (payments) are available to members who assist with tasks. Meeting attendance honorariums are also available for members whose attendance at meetings is not funded by their employer.
OUR WORK & ADVOCACY Championing Intersectional Justice
The Alliance works on a variety of different projects related to our priority issues each year. Some of our current and past projects include:
Human Rights Committee (HRC): Submission for Reporting of the United States of America on Women and Gender Diverse People with Disabilities
The U.S. Gender and Disability Justice Alliance,Women Enabled International (WEI), Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network,and the Autistic People of Color Fund, appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the Human Rights Committee’s consideration of the U.S.’s periodic report to the Committee. Women and girls with disabilities account for approximately 16% of all women in the U.S., and […]
Storytelling Project on Medium
We’re excited to share our new storytelling project on Medium, highlighting the experiences of women and gender-diverse people with disabilities as they navigate sexual and reproductive healthcare and/or gender-affirming care. Through first-person narratives, this series amplifies voices that are too often unheard—revealing both the barriers faced and the resilience shown in pursuit of vital health […]
Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
This shadow report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) examines the intersecting impacts of racial discrimination, gender bias, and disability on women, girls, non-binary people, and gender minorities from marginalized racial groups in the United States.
The Impact of Judy Heumann’s Legacy Within the Disability Community
This article by Makahla Jackson and Dr. Ashley Volion honors the late disability-rights trailblazer Judy Heumann—often called the “Mother of the Disability Rights Movement”—and traces how her bold, partnership-driven leadership continues to inspire today’s advocates. It outlines Judy’s early fight for school access, her ethos of “Nothing About Us Without Us” forged at Camp Jened, […]
What Disabled Folks Need: Roe v Wade and Home and Community-Based Services
This article by Kayla Rodríguez and Oluwatobi Odugunwa explores two intertwined crises for disabled people in the United States: the erosion of reproductive rights following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the chronic underfunding of Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). Drawing on their own experiences—Kayla’s heightened health risks from PCOS and Georgia’s near-total abortion […]
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The U.S. Gender and Disability Justice Alliance, an initiative of Women Enabled International, is a disability justice-oriented collective convening women and gender-diverse people with disabilities from across the United States together to take action on issues important to our community.
Current Funders
The Alliance is sponsored by Women Enabled International and is especially grateful for the generoisty of the New York Women’s Foundation and the PRBB Foundation.
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