Schalk contends that Clare's reimagining of the Sierra Club ads suggest two possible approaches that Schalk takes up in her own proposed alternative: 
1. Placing violence and neglect that produce disability as the problem to be solved - not disability itself.
2. Emphasizing the intertwined nature of social justice issues.

Possible Approaches Suggested by Reimagining Represenation

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.

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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

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.

Disability Pride Approach

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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