This is a lovely and amazing initiative!!
________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-I am super massively excited to announce the launch of the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment!I'm partnering with the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, with seed funding from the American Association of People with Disabilities Hearne Award, to making $8350 USD available for direct support, mutual aid, and community reparations for autistic people of color worldwide – unrestricted.We are launching the fund exactly one year after we published All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, the first-ever (but hopefully not last!) anthology entirely by autistic people of color and otherwise negatively racialized autistic people.[Photo: Logo is teal with white text that says "Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color's Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment." Background shows five fists thrust in the air in resistance and solidarity.]______________
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