The Anti Ableist Art Educators Manifesto 
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This Manifesto is meant to serve as a direct act of creative resistance, protest and as an educational tool to help people with and without disabilities become more aware of how to uplift their disabled selves and the disabled and neurodivergent students and body minds around them. 

As my Neurodiverent friend and educator, Lydia Z. Brown states: 

Ableism is an entire way of thinking and doing that harms disabled people by treating some types of bodies and minds as valuable, worthy, and desirable, and others as undesirable and unworthy. Ableism is embedded in legal, social, and political institutions, as well as in commonly accepted and unquestioned attitudes and assumptions.

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  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

  • NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

  • PLEASE DO NOT SELL THIS MANIFESTO WAS A WAY TO ERASE THE NEURODIVERENT PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY PREPARED THIS DOCUMENT IN SOLIDARITY TO ALL ART EDUCATORS 

  • PLEASE DO NOT PASS THIS DOCUMENT AND ART OFF AS YOUR OWN CREATION. 

  • PLEASE PROPERLY CITE THIS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE MATERIAL The Anti Ableist Art Educators Manifesto designed and created IN DISABILTY SOLIDARITY BY JEN WHITE-JOHNSON © 2022

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Image descriptions, black bold Text on yellow, white and orange 8.5 x 11 paper text reads: (in English and in Spanish)

In English: 

1. SHOW UP
2. ERADICATE ABLEISM
3. UPLIFT ACCEPTANCE
4. CREATE WITH AND NOT FOR
5. OUR DIFFERENCES SHOULD EMBOLDEN US
6. DISABILITY IS NOT A BAD WORD
7. VALUE ALL BODIES AND MINDS
8. ALLYSHIP IS SACRIFICE
9. OUR ART IS OUR SURVIVAL

In Spanish:

EL ANTI CAPAZ
EDUCADORES DE ARTE
MANIFESTO
@jtknoxroxs

1. APARECER
2. ERRADICAR LA CAPACIDAD
3. ACEPTACION DE ELEVACION
4. CREAR CON Y NO PARA
5. NUESTRAS DIFERENCIAS SON FORTALEZAS
6. DISCAPACIDAD NO ES UNA MALA PALABRA
7. VALORAR TODOS LOS CUERPOS Y MENTES
8. LA ALIANZA ES SACRIFICIO
9. NUESTRO ARTE ES NUESTRO SUPERVIVENCIA