Imani Barbarin: Creating Accessible Spaces for Belonging
07/24/23 • 74 min
What does it mean to create truly accessible spaces within your collective work?
At the 2023 Collective Impact Action Summit, we explored this question and more in a keynote conversation with Imani Barbarin (Crutches and Spice), who is a disability and inclusion activist, speaker and content creator.
In this fireside chat, Imani Barbarin and Miya Cain (FSG) discuss what components can create a truly accessible culture of Belonging, including how directly addressing the inequities experienced by disabled people is necessary to reach broader societal change. They also explore the long impact of the Covid pandemic, and how the intersection of multiple identities is important to understand when building accessible spaces.
Preceding this discussion, we’re delighted to share a spoken word performance by artist and facilitator Kayla Brooks, titled 'You Belong Here'. Introducing both Kayla’s performance and the following keynote discussion is Cindy Santos, Senior Associate at the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions.
Footnotes and References
- Crutches and Spice website and on TikTok, Crutches_and_spice
- Read Reflections from the Action Summit on Accessibility and Belonging by Ajai Scott (FSG) for highlights and reflections from this keynote.
- Podcast: Narrative Change and Disability with Imani Barbarin
- Blog: Navigating Consent and Allyship by Tracy Timmons-Gray, Collective Impact Forum
- The Curb-Cut Effect by Angela Glover Blackwell, Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Disability Visibility Project–an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture, founded by Alice Wong
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network–an advocacy organization run by and for people on the autism spectrum, founded by Ari Ne’eman
- Sins Invalid: a disability justice performance project
- Disability Scoop: the largest news organization in the nation covering developmental disabilities, founded by Michelle Diament and Shaun Heasley
- A Disability History of the United States, by Kim E. Nielsen
- Black Disability Politics, by Dr. Sami Schalk
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann
More on Collective Impact
Infographic: What is Collective Impact?
Resource List: Getting Started in Collective Impact
The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found here and is licensed under CC: By 4.0.
The outro music, entitled “Deliberate Thought,” was composed by Kevin Macleod. Licensed under CC: By.
Have a question related to collaborative work that you'd like to have discussed on the podcast? Contact us at: https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/contact-us/
What does it mean to create truly accessible spaces within your collective work?
At the 2023 Collective Impact Action Summit, we explored this question and more in a keynote conversation with Imani Barbarin (Crutches and Spice), who is a disability and inclusion activist, speaker and content creator.
In this fireside chat, Imani Barbarin and Miya Cain (FSG) discuss what components can create a truly accessible culture of Belonging, including how directly addressing the inequities experienced by disabled people is necessary to reach broader societal change. They also explore the long impact of the Covid pandemic, and how the intersection of multiple identities is important to understand when building accessible spaces.
Preceding this discussion, we’re delighted to share a spoken word performance by artist and facilitator Kayla Brooks, titled 'You Belong Here'. Introducing both Kayla’s performance and the following keynote discussion is Cindy Santos, Senior Associate at the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions.
Footnotes and References
- Crutches and Spice website and on TikTok, Crutches_and_spice
- Read Reflections from the Action Summit on Accessibility and Belonging by Ajai Scott (FSG) for highlights and reflections from this keynote.
- Podcast: Narrative Change and Disability with Imani Barbarin
- Blog: Navigating Consent and Allyship by Tracy Timmons-Gray, Collective Impact Forum
- The Curb-Cut Effect by Angela Glover Blackwell, Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Disability Visibility Project–an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture, founded by Alice Wong
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network–an advocacy organization run by and for people on the autism spectrum, founded by Ari Ne’eman
- Sins Invalid: a disability justice performance project
- Disability Scoop: the largest news organization in the nation covering developmental disabilities, founded by Michelle Diament and Shaun Heasley
- A Disability History of the United States, by Kim E. Nielsen
- Black Disability Politics, by Dr. Sami Schalk
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann
More on Collective Impact
Infographic: What is Collective Impact?
Resource List: Getting Started in Collective Impact
The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found here and is licensed under CC: By 4.0.
The outro music, entitled “Deliberate Thought,” was composed by Kevin Macleod. Licensed under CC: By.
Have a question related to collaborative work that you'd like to have discussed on the podcast? Contact us at: https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/contact-us/
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Creating Purposeful Spaces of Inclusion and Belonging: A Conversation with Ruchika Tulshyan
What does it mean to create a culture of “belonging” within your collective work?
At the 2023 Collective Impact Action Summit, we explored this question and more in a keynote conversation with Ruchika Tulshyan, award-winning inclusion strategist, speaker, and author of the bestselling book, Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work.
In this fireside chat, Ruchika Tulshyan and Melody Barnes (Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions) discussed practices that can support and operationalize inclusive, equity-centered collaborative cultures. They also shared about the importance of elevating the voices of women of color and those historically underestimated within collaborative work.
References and Footnotes
- Watch the video or read a transcript of this keynote conversation
- Read the blog post Creating Purposeful Spaces of Inclusion and Belonging by Ajai Scott for highlights and reflections from this keynote.
- Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work by Ruchika Tulshyan
- Candour
- PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute)
- Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey, Harvard Business Review
- The Curb-Cut Effect by Angela Glover Blackwell, Stanford Social Innovation Review
More on Collective Impact
Infographic: What is Collective Impact?
Resource List: Getting Started in Collective Impact
The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found here and is licensed under CC: By 4.0.
The outro music, entitled “Deliberate Thought,” was composed by Kevin Macleod. Licensed under CC: By.
Have a question related to collaborative work that you'd like to have discussed on the podcast? Contact us at: https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/contact-us/
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Krista Tippett: Collectively Remaking Our World
How can you imagine and create a world for everyone?
In this new podcast episode, we’re sharing our conversation with Krista Tippett, which was the closing keynote conversation from the 2023 Collective Impact Action. Krista is a journalist, a National Humanities Medalist, a bestselling author, and founder of the On Being Project—a groundbreaking media and public life initiative that uplifts and celebrates deep thinking and conversations around what it means to be here together in this world.
In this fireside chat, Krista joins Cindy Santos (Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions) for a conversation about what it means to create new spaces—spaces that nurture Belonging, center relationships, and value healing, joy, and connection.
References and Footnotes
Reflections on this keynote talk by Deb Halliday
On Being
What is the On Being Project to read the “Enough of us...” poem/statement
John Paul Lederach
Where Life is Precious, life is precious, with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
Tending Joy and Practicing Delight, with Ross Gay
“Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves.” A Poem by J. Drew Lanham
Pathfinding Through the Improbable with J. Drew Lanham
Where does it hurt, with Ruby Sales
Collective Change Lab
The Relational Work of Systems Change, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Leading from Languishing to Beloved Community, with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
To be a Healer, with Vivek Murthy
Rest is Resistance, by Tricia Hersey
More on Collective Impact
Infographic: What is Collective Impact?
Resource List: Getting Started in Collective Impact
The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found here and is licensed under CC: By 4.0.
The outro music, entitled “Deliberate Thought,” was composed by Kevin Macleod. Licensed under CC: By.
Have a question related to collaborative work that you'd like to have discussed on the podcast? Contact us at: https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/contact-us/
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