Disability Justice is a movement framework that goes beyond the fight for accessibility or inclusion. It’s about transforming the systems that classify some lives as disposable and others worth protecting. Developed by disabled queer people of color through the work of Sins Invalid and the Disability Justice Collective, Disability Justice recognizes that ableism is deeply connected to racism, capitalism, sexism, classism, and other forms of oppression.

Buffalo’s transportation system fails many with disabilities. Advocates push for expanded paratransit & better access.

A.R.I.S.E. scored a win with the 2019 opening of a Buffalo DDRO annex, pushing for a full relocation from the inaccessible West Seneca site.