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How My Disability Justice Practice Had to Align with Fat Liberation for Representation

3 rumpled crop tops are seen. The black one from the top states this in white text: TORN BETWEEN LOOKING LIKE A SNACK& EATING ONE The black one in the middle states this in green, pink, orange, and red text: THICK THIGHS THIN PATIENCE The green one below states this in red, orange and blue: UNLESS I'M SITTING ON YOUR FACE, MY WEIGHT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
3 rumpled crop tops are seen. The black one from the top states this in white text: TORN BETWEEN LOOKING LIKE A SNACK& EATING ONE The black one in the middle states this in green, pink, orange, and red text: THICK THIGHS THIN PATIENCE The green one below states this in red, orange and blue: UNLESS I'M SITTING ON YOUR FACE, MY WEIGHT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS

Some know that I used to work as an Accessibility Advisor at Canada's largest university, supporting disabled students to obtain the necessary academic accommodations to complete their undergraduate studies from 2018 to 2021.

In that role, I often had Black, Indigenous, and racialized students doubt if they were eligible for registration with Accessibility Services, despite regularly seeing medical professionals for health issues that clearly limited their ability to pursue their learning. Over time, with each discussion with these students whose skin tones resembled mine, I came to realize that they too had implicitly come to perceive disabilities as something that only applied to white folx, likely because it was rare to see disability representation of Black, Indigenous, and racialized folx, which posed a barrier to self-identification."

- Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW.

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