Register: Disability Justice and Liberated Healing with Project LETS
Direct Action at Pitzer is beyond excited to welcome Project LETS (virtually) to campus on April 19th and 26th from 4PM-6PM PST for a disability justice workshop series.

Project LETS is, “is a national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence. We specialize in building just, responsive, and transformative peer support collectives and community mental health care structures that do not depend on state-sanctioned systems that trap our folks in the medical/prison-industrial complex. We work for and with multiply marginalized folks in our communities to provide access, political education, & material resources that are needed to survive and thrive. We believe in a world without systems of oppression, where non-carceral responses to crises are the norm!”

Learn more about Project LETS on their website [projectlets.org] and check out the other events and educational resources Direct Action at Pitzer has sponsored/created on ours [https://www.pitzer.edu/cec/community-pillars/direct_action_pz/]

**Made possible with funds from the Pitzer Campus Life Committee**
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April 19th 4-6PM PST: Disability Justice on Campus: Unpacking Ableism  & Sanism
Historically, institutions of higher education have been inaccessible for Mad, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and Disabled (MMIND) students. For generations, we have been left out, discriminated against, and unable to matriculate with non- Disabled students. In recent generations, due to the ADA & 504 laws, many more MMIND students have entered spaces of higher ed, and universities struggle to determine how best to support us. This workshop centers the lived experience of MMIND students through a Disability Justice framework.
We will discuss: the barriers MMIND students face in higher education, how ableism and sanism are systemic and perpetuated by universities, institutional policies that harm MMIND students (such as: mandatory reporting and forced medical leave), and how university staff/Professors can best engage with and support their MMIND students, especially during the ongoing COVID pandemic.

April 26th 4-6PM PST: Peer Support, Disability Care, and Anti-Carceral Crisis Response
The understanding that police do not make us safe is widening, and students are asking, what does make us safe? How should we deal with the things students usually call the cops or emergency services about? In this workshop, will challenge ourselves to question our collective willingness and desire to “outsource” students and peers in moments of harm, violence, trauma, or crisis. We will dig into the skills we need to cultivate to better engage in peer-led support, care practices, de- escalation, and learn to center practices of Transformative Justice in our work to interrupt harm and violence. This is an interactive, skill-building and visionary discussion-based training, led by Disabled and neurodivergent facilitators.

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If you want to get more involved with Disability Justice work on campus, reach out to Casey Xu [casxu@students.pitzer.edu], a Pitzer student actively involved with DISCOVR, and follow DISCOVR on Instagram [@claremontdiscovr].  DISCOVR (Disability Community and Validating Relationships) is a 5C mentor and affinity club created to foster community for any Claremont Colleges student identifying as Mad, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and Disabled.
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