Freedom Without Barriers
This event is hosted by Ase Community Foundation for Black Canadians with Disabilities, in partnership with the City of Toronto’s Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit and the Wildseed Centre for Arts and Activism.
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As part of Emancipation Month, Ase Community Foundation for Black Canadians with Disabilities invites you to Freedom Without Barriers, a Black Disability Roundtable exploring leadership, liberation and resistance.
Join us for a community-centred conversation about the role of Black disabled people in movements for freedom, resistance and collective care—and what Black disability leadership and liberation should look like in our communities today.
The gathering will include a featured panel, cultural reflection and facilitated community conversations exploring two key themes:
Legacies of Disability, Care, and Black Resistance — recognizing the ways Black disability communities have built care, mutual aid, healing spaces and resistance movements, while examining how histories of slavery, anti-Black racism, health, labour and exclusion continue to shape experiences of disability, care and belonging.
Liberation Futures: Black Disability Leadership and Civic Action — imagining how Black disabled leaders, caregivers, elders, artists and organizers can be better recognized in public life, while identifying practical ways to improve access to community spaces, programs, cultural events, civic participation and public services.
Freedom Without Barriers welcomes all Black community members with disabilities, families, allies, advocates, and community partners to join us for a day of learning, reflection, and community.
Together, these conversations will help surface community priorities and recommendations for building more accessible and liberatory futures.