Disability Pride Month: The Future is Disabled

Through disability justice leaders and community, we’ve learned to relate to disability—our own, the ones we love, our community’s, and those in the margins of the margins—not as something fixed, binding, or defined by limitation, but as a site of wisdom, interdependence, and collective care.

Through the teachings of these leaders, especially Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, I’ve learned that the future is disabled—both in that our birth, aging bodies, facing illness, experiencing oppression, and moving in and out of disability, meaning many of us will become disabled at some point in our lives, if we are not already moving with disability without having the community, language, and tools to name it and support it. Disability Justice reminds us that disability is not simply an individual condition but is shaped by the systems we live within, and that access, care, and survival are collective responsibilities.

And also, the future includes disabled folks. It is not enough to imagine disabled people surviving in the future, we must understand that disabled people are actively creating the futures we need. When the systems around us are designed to attack disabled folks' lives and livelihoods, we must intentionally create futures that love, center, and live with disabled folks.

Accessibility Note

We are honored to offer ASL services throughout this training program! ASL is available with at least two weeks request. Please email hey@themasgd.org to request ASL services.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee ASL with less than two weeks notice. We will do our best to honor these types of requests.

Session Topics

Session 1 | Disability Justice Books & Orgs: July 3, 2026 @ 10 - 11 AM PT / 1 - 2 PM ET

An exploration of disability justice movements from the folks who are doing the work – a collective exploration based on books, orgs, and histories!

Session 2 | Collective Khutbah: July 10, 2026 @ 10 - 11 AM PT / 1 - 2 PM ET

An exploration of disability in the Quran. How can we read the Quran with a disability justice lens?

Session 3 | Depression, Gender Justice, and Islam: July 17, 2026 @ 10 - 11 AM PT / 1 - 2 PM ET

Join Sandhi from Killjoy Institute as they probe depression, gender justice, and Islam for Disability Justice month.

Session 4 | Resistance Medicine: Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and a Healers Role Amidst Slow & Persistent Genocide: July 24, 2026 @ 10 - 11 AM PT / 1 - 2 PM ET

Join noon (they/she) in her khutbah where she will delve into Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah’s teachings as a British-Palestinian plastic reconstructive surgeon who served as a physician in Gaza. We will discuss his analysis of bombing and artillery as impositions of colonial violence onto the body. Afterwards, we will begin a group discussion connecting this analysis to how trans bodies are also colonized bodies and the specific role trans healthcare may play in resisting colonial subjugation.

Session 5 | Disability Justice Methodologies and Organizing as Disabled Leaders: July 31, 2026 @ 10 AM - 12 PM PT / 1 - 3 PM ET

A khutbah to discuss some of the basic tenets of disability justice as envisioned by Sins Invalid and the specific ways we organize as disabled individuals building a liberated world. We'll discuss these topics and the differences & intersections between them? 

- How can you use Disability Justice as a methodology for liberation organizing

- Being disabled and not using disability justice as a methodology, 

- Being a disabled organizer and being that utilizes disability justice practice