ABOUT US
Vision. Mission. Values.
Vision
A vibrant, inclusive and healing Disability Justice movement that welcomes and is relevant to all.
Mission
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We exist to co-create healing, powerful and creative ways to turn our shared struggle as Disabled people, into shared power across our movement.
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Mission
We exist to co-create healing, politicised and imaginative ways to turn our shared struggle as disabled/marginalised people into shared power across our movements.
Mission
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We exist to co-create healing, powerful and creative ways to turn our shared struggle as Disabled people, into shared power across our movement.
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Aims
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We are currently co-producing the aims of our work. If you'd like to be involved in helping us shape what we do, please e-mail aman@birthingourselves.co.uk
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Disability Justice at the centre
We use interdisciplinary thinking underpinned by the principles, wisdom and gifts of Disability Justice. We use this generative frame to inspire thoughtful, brave, and creative leadership capable of building the Disabled people's movement that we want to see. Read more about Disability Justice here.
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Taking a Transformative and 'politicised' approach to Lived Experience
Using our first-hand experience of ableism, and the other ways that we are marginalised by the everyday practices of people, services, organisations, and systems to recognise and challenge the systems and behaviours that create/re-create inequality and systemic injustice.
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Women of Colour Feminism inspired practice
We use Women of Colour Feminist principles and practices to deepen our community building work and thinking.
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Committed to working in relationship and building connection
Movement building, without the practice of building genuine connection is project/event management – an important tool, but not a means to transformation. We therefore judge the pace of change/intensity of our work by the quality of relationship.
Wholeheartedly Generous / Trauma Informed Leadership
To resist the call to understand the world in an uncomplicated way; we always try to show up as our full, most generous selves. Part of this generosity is to understand the messy nature of the social relations of power – and that we are (no matter our position of power) are both victims and perpetrators of power.​