By taking a holistic approach Black Disability Politics often intersects with health activism which requires challenging ableist assumptions about health and wellness within Black health activism where disability is often used as a symbol of how someone has been impacted by racial violence. 

E.G. disabled children are often used as examples of when the medical industrial complex has failed to properly care for Black mothers. While the medical industrial complex does not properly care for black mothers, in this example disability is used only as a negative result of racist neglect, and shown as a burden to Black mothers

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The work of Black Disability Politics tends to address whole bodyminds rather than how historically disability activism and disability studies have overwhelmingly focused on exclusively physical disability 

Schalk also uses holitistic to reference the work of Black Disability Politics as work that is simultaneously occurring on the individual community level, and the societal, national, and international levels.

In addition, Schalk uses holistic to refer to the wide range of bodyminds addressed within Black disability politics and how Black disability politics are not limited to the official legal or medical definitions of disability. In particular, this is noted by hos Black Disability Politics often engage with health illess, disaes, and medicine even though these topics may  not be considered disability issues by the state, medical industrial complex, or the disability rights movement. 

Schalk's Definition of Holistic

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

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