Fireside Chat for Autistic Youth: Social Justice and You
with Kayla Carter
Are you an Autistic person/person with autism between 14 and 24 years old, with an interest in social justice? Join us for an online fireside chat with disability justice advocate Kayla Carter!
When is it?
Wednesday July 26, 5 PM ET
What can we expect at this event?
This online “fireside chat” will be focused on intersectionality and social justice. During the chat, we will delve into the following questions:
- What is social justice?
- Equality vs. Equity
- What is intersectionality?
- What is allyship?
- Turning the gaslight off
More specifically, through the chat council members will get a better understanding of the intersections of race, class, and gender. The chat will be a space where the council members can ask questions in a judgment-free zone. There will also be room for discussion on their place within social justice and how social justice and intersectionality can better help them understand themselves in the world. Additionally, the council members will discuss ableism, what it is, the social model of disability, and how it operates in our society. Through this conversation on ableism, they will understand how ableism affects their lived experiences, and that they are not “wrong” but there is a wider society that disenfranchises disabled people as a whole. Finally, the council members will have time to ask me questions about my experience as an autistic person and ample room to vent and be affirmed about their frustrations and their experiences as an autistic person/person with autism.
Who can sign up?
If you identify as an Autistic person/person with autism and are between the ages of 14 and 24, you are welcome to sign up.
REGISTERAbout Kayla Carter
Accessibility Coordinator, Xenia Concerts
Kayla Carter is a Tkaronto-based facilitator, writer, consultant, and community educator. Kayla’s work focuses on disability justice, anti-racism, co-design, curriculum design, collective care, and unpacking the institutional, social, and material effects that race, gender, disability, and class and their intersections have on our collective lives. With over 10 years of experience as an internationally acclaimed facilitator, consultant, writer, and educator their approach to their work has been by engaging with equity, diversity, and inclusivity from a disability justice, anti-racist, and trauma-informed practice. Their deep love for all things policy and policy accessibility has allowed them to work with universities and not-for-profits across the country on revising accessibility, sexual misconduct, and anti-racism policies. Kayla has merged their lived experience as a Black, disabled, queer, femme, and their M.A. in Critical Disability Studies, to create a career that is rooted in nourishing, fostering, and amplifying the voices and experiences of those who are institutionally, structurally, and systematically silenced. Kayla merges their love for music, performance, storytelling and accessibility as the Accessibility Coordinator for Xenia Concerts.