#AccessIsLove / La Accessibilidad es Amor: Become a HJC Sustainer!
Image Description: White text in center of graphic reads, “Access Is Love.” White text on the border of the graphic reads, “La accessibilidad es amor. La justicia del lenguaje es un proyecto de resistencia creativa. Accessibility is love. Language Justice is a project of creative resistance.” The ASL hand signs for the word “Access” are drawn in pencil. Behind the text is a collage of eight photographs depicting the artist (as a child) with their grandfather. A filter has been applied to make them look like paintings. The photographs were taken in California and in Sichuan, China. When the artist is with their grandfather, they tend to speak in Mandarin (despite the artist's limited vocabulary). They also tend to fall into translator-roles for each other interchangeably, depending on the primary language(s) spoken in the spaces they inhabit. By depicting their relationship with their grandfather, the artist hopes to demonstrate how Language Justice work demonstrates radical love and care, dismantles power structures, challenges borders, and engages with the rich universes of knowledge and history embedded in language. Art by C.
The Health Justice Commons is in an exciting phase of growing our Language Justice capacity! We take leadership from our movement partner Sins Invalid who has helped lead the way in defining and embodying these practices. We draw particular inspiration from their article titled, “Language Justice is Disability Justice.”
We are integrating Language Justice practices by continuing to provide trilingual access to all of our events; spoken English, ASL, English <> Spanish Interpretation, and live closed captioning. We’re also aiming to increase Spanish-language outreach for our events and gatherings. Our long-term vision is to make translation of our extensive political education resources available for every pol ed series.
Do you want to help us grow our capacity? Sign up to be a sustainer for $10/month (or more if you can)! Together we can center multilingual access and share power amongst speakers of all languages. tinyurl.com/DonateHJC