Erevelles critiques a Disability Pride Approach by contending that a purely pride-based approach to disability ignores how disability is inextricably tied to violent social/economic conditions under capitalism for so many disabled people, especially low-income people and people of color. A disability pride only approach would erase disability from activist approaches to resisting violence and would avoid rather than solve the problem of disability being used as a symbol of oppression.

Nirmala Erevelles' Critique of Disability Pride

A disability pride approach as an alternative to using disability as a symbol of oppression would be removing disability from these efforts entirely - to distance disability from negativity in any way in an attempt to show that disability is not inherently tied to suffering.

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- Disability Pride Approach
- Reimagining of Representation
- Schalk's Recommendation

Alternatives for how Non-Profits and Social Justice Organizations Should Interact with Disability

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

Black Disability Politics

Disability Pride Approach

Eli Clare reimagines the Sierra Club ads to ads that would integrate a multi-issue politics of chronic illness and disability by locating injustice not in disabled people but in the extraction of fuel from the planet, the polluting of the planet, and in racist and classist forces. Disabilities like cancer and asthma would not be symbols but be presented as lived realities of injustice.

Reimagining of Representation in Social Justice and Non-Profit Spaces

Schalk offers three tactics as suggestions for social justice and nonprofit groups to protest injustice and violence without making disability a symbol of oppression and fighting for concrete efforts to support those already disabled by structural oppression:
1. focusing on violence as the problem that needs to be solved, not disability
2. emphasizing how multiple social justice issues are inherently intertwined
3. fighting for and offering concrete support to those disabled by violence and oppression

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