ABSTRACT
Engaging in critical disability praxis means prioritising the process such as building holistic access and community–academia relationships as a measurement of progress, instead of the usual methods valued in higher education such as productivity and the linear notion of progress and effectiveness. For critical disability praxis to work, it involves engaging in disability studies from and within the space of community–academia interdependent relationships. Disability justice activists have argued that the narrow perspective is caused by the rights movement's single identity-based organising – disability identity – which reflects the reality of the movement being occupied and led largely by white, cis-heterosexual US citizens with physical disabilities. Disability justice workers make sure they involve intersectional analyses in their work, that they understand how ableism is enacted in relation with other forms of social injustice. Disability justice organisers move within more flexible timeframes and include breaks instead of following the traditional community organising model in which people work non-stop.
