Nineequa Blanding

Feb 28, 2023 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Sonia Sarkar |Nineequa Blanding

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ’s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.” Disability justice emerged as a framework in the early 2000s, as disabled queer folks and BIPOC activists reflected on and critiqued the Disability Rights Movement of the 1960s and ’70s—which focused on advocacy for legislation and policy protecting the rights of disabled people.1 The passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1975 and the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act...

Feb 14, 2023 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Nineequa Blanding |Prentis Hemphill |Kitana Ananda |Naa Amissah-Hammond

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ’s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.” Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. When I sat down with Dr. Lourdes Ashley Hunter-Fowler to discuss her healing justice work and two-decades-long journey as an activist for trans rights, we paused—at her request and to my delight—to take a few deep, synchronous breaths and ground ourselves before starting the interview.