The Intersection of Disability Justice and Environmental Justice

<p>What is Disability Justice and what are the connections that it has to Environmental Justice? In this episode, I speak to disabled activist and attorney, <a href="https://www.nationalpartnership.org/about-us/staff-board/marissa-ditkowsky.html">Marissa Ditkowsky</a>, on the intersections of disability justice and environmental justice, while also discussing cross movement solidarity, the difference between disability justice and disability rights, and how to advance disability justice within the environmental movement. This episode is available via transcript at <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-THtNWEvsNcr9s9HroHnGKD_W5tNVNlXrxJai6-hVHo/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-THtNWEvsNcr9s9HroHnGKD_W5tNVNlXrxJai6-hVHo/edit?usp=sharing</a>Resources discussed in the episode:National Partnership of Women and Families Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/NPWF?s=20">@npwf</a>Jen Deerinwater’s work: <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-people-with-disabilities-are-on-the-front-lines-of-the-climate-crisis/">https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-people-with-disabilities-are-on-the-front-lines-of-the-climate-crisis/</a>Justice Shorter’s work: <a href="https://justiceshorter.com/black-disables-lives-matter/">https://justiceshorter.com/black-disables-lives-matter/</a>Tiffany Yu: <a href="https://rootedinrights.org/its-time-to-recognize-climate-change-as-a-disability-rights-issue/">https://rootedinrights.org/its-time-to-recognize-climate-change-as-a-disability-rights-issue/</a>Krystal Vasquez: <a href="https://www.ehn.org/natural-disasters-disabled-community-2652503611/wildfire-bobcat-fire">https://www.ehn.org/natural-disasters-disabled-community-2652503611/wildfire-bobcat-fire</a>Luticha Andre Doucette: <a href="https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/solving-plastic/2021/05/10/toward-disability-justice">https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/solving-plastic/2021/05/10/toward-disability-justice</a>Links to the <a href="https://www.nationalpartnership.org/">National Partnership of Women and