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Two women stand in front of a grand building with columns and stairs. The woman on the left wears a black jacket, a black and white scarf, and gold jewelry. The woman on the right wears a burgundy jacket over a pink shirt and a pearl necklace.

Toolkit to Protect Community Living

A toolkit that provides a list of resources and actions that you can take to protect the right to community living.

Kat Anstett

Aug 319 min read

Black and white portrait of a man, wearing a dark cap and a button-down shirt, with the text "May Nurul Amin Shah Alam rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing." in blue above him.

Statement on the Murder of Nurul Amin Shah Alam

Our statement on the murder of Nurul Amin Shah Alam at the collective hands of U.S. Border Patrol, Buffalo police, and the Erie County Sheriff's Office and a reminder that the fight disability justice will always be intertwined with the fight for immigrant justice. May Shah Alam rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing. He deserved so much better.

Kat Anstett

Feb 262 min read

Illustration advocating for disability justice, depicting two people reaching for one another. One figure sits in a wheelchair wearing an orange jumpsuit, and the other wears a white garment and head covering with a bandaged arm. Text above them reads "Disability Justice means resisting together from solitary cells to open-air prisons. To Exist is To Resist" against a backdrop of bars, a yellow surface, a blue sky, a burning structure with an open window, and three projectiles being dropped from a plane.

Disability Justice Resource Guide

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.

Kat Anstett

Oct 20, 20253 min read

Fighting for Accessibility: The Ongoing Struggle for Equitable Transportation in Buffalo's Disability Community

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

Kat Anstett

Feb 10, 20253 min read

A.R.I.S.E.'s Fight for an Accessible Developmental Disabilities Regional Office in Buffalo

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.

Voice Buffalo

Jan 24, 20201 min read