Key Takeaways from the Presentation and Q&A:

• Often we live with barriers and experience marginalization but don’t know how to name it.

• Race and Disability Canada was born out of the experiences of of one of the founding organizations, Ethno-Racial People with Disabilities Coalition of Ontario (ERDCO). It was an act of protest to spotlight intersectionality after a disabled Hindu woman lost her job after requesting various accommodations and was then sent in circles to different organizations, each only focusing on one aspect of her identity.

• To uphold justice, as organizations, we need to ask who we let in, how do we let them in and what do we allow them to do when they’re in? Are we sharing power and leveling the playing field or are we just doing performative actions to appease diversity?

• This is a lifelong journey of learning, not a one and done. It means constantly engaging and learning from those with lived experience. 

• When we support the inclusion of Indigenous, Black and racialized people with disabilities, it benefits everyone.

• This Community of Practice needs to continue gathering because diversity isn’t motionless, it is fluid and ever changing.

• There is no one shoe fits all for the experience of a racialized person with a disability.

• When we don’t live the experience, we cannot assume the expertise.

• The hierarchy within the hierarchy - there are sub-hierarchy within types of disabilities. If we add race to identity, for example a racialized male who is deaf, people can be criminalized and therefore put at risk.