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Group Hike and Gather: Madison Falls, Port Angeles

Disabled Hikers Group Hike and Gather: Tuesday August 21, Madison Falls

August 6, 2018 0

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I created Disabled Hikers in an act of love; our motto "Love Your Self, Love Your Place" highlights the power of love and belonging. . When disabled folx have access to the outdoors, it becomes an antidote to the isolation so many of us feel. When we can know ourselves as a part of the whole, as connected with "nature," we can find our own meaning for our lives. . For me, it isn't only about enjoying the beauty of the world - it is about letting the wholeness of the world inform my life. It is allowing my love for the outdoors to be reflected back at me. . Sending love to each and every one of you who want to receive it. 💓💗💕 . . . #DisabledHikers #AccessIsLove #DisabledAndOutdoors #DiversifyOutdoors #DisabilityPride #Diversity #Inclusion #Love #Valentines . #NatureIsDiverse #OurCommunitiesShouldReflectThat

I've been thinking a lot about individual and community resilience in the face of climate change and unpredictable major natural events. I see so many people struggling to cope with growing uncertainty. How do we build communities of care in such an isolated, individualized culture? How do we ensure people retain their agency in difficult circumstances? How do we develop a prepper mindset not based in hoarding resources and viewing the elderly and disabled as irrelevant? I hope you can have some of these conversations in your communities. . And I hope those of you experiencing extreme weather are safe and feel cared for. It's been wild in western Washington. . #climatechange #emergencypreparedness #carework #solidaritynetwork #communitiesofcare

There is not a single social justice movement that would exist without the work of Black, Indigenous, and people of color. The disability justice movement is no different. So for #DisabledPOCDay I'm sharing a few of my favorite accounts. In no particular order: 1) @skynoire is kind of a badass. I love Danielle's candid, direct sharing of life with a disability. She's also a leader in the outdoor DEI movement. 2) @crutches_and_spice Imani started the #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow hashtag, among other things, which is a wealth of #CripWisdom 3) @anti_ableism I love Kalia's sense of humor, and Anti-ableism's mission 4) @pripee3 Priya started DIYabled and writes honest posts about disabled life 5) I'm going to include these three humans in one and hope I don't break the rules, because I admire their collective work so much. @mia.mingus @alicatsamurai and @notyouravgho do so much, and most recently their #AccessIsLove campaign is helping shift the conversation about access. 💖 Thanks to @chroniclly.hopeful and @rebellious_story (who created the graphics) for starting this! 🙌 Please give these beautiful humans a follow!

There's a lot going on in the outdoors industry and DEI world this week, and I'm not trying to detract from any of that. I say this in an attempt to build more cross-movement solidarity (and because I'm feeling really agitated right now about it). If you are hosting events about DEI and not explicitly including disabled people, you are not building diversity, equity, or inclusion. If you are not making your event accessible to disabled people, you are not building diversity, equity, or inclusion. If you are asking non-disabled people to speak about disability in the outdoors, you are silencing the people who have the actual expertise to speak on it. I started this organization because in almost all of the diversify outdoors orgs and events I saw, disabled people were left out, or barely given a mention, or talked about by non-disabled people. Every time. (with the exception of adaptive sports, which is another topic). Stop excluding us. There are disabled people in every community, and the disability community is a wealth of knowledge, experience, and LOVE about how to organize and exist in white supremacist heteropatriarchal colonialist capitalism. We are not burden. We are not "too difficult" to accommodate. You are losing out by not including us.

I don't post a lot of selfies because I don't want this project to be about me. But, it occurs to me that you all might want to know more about who I am and why I do this work and what Disabled Hikers is and is to become. So, I'm working on some additional intro videos/articles. Have a question about me or Disabled Hikers? Comment below or DM!

I'm having a tough day with a bad flare up and some personal issues weighing heavy on me. We have some snow showers though, and I needed to bring in some more wood. I opened up a fresh tub of kindling, and my second favorite scent rushed through my senses: aromatic cedar and fir washing my thoughts clean for a moment. I gathered a bundle in my arms and buried my face in it. The aromatic experience always remind me that we evolved with the trees, and in some ways our bodies need those volatile oils as much as we need the oxygen they produce. My first favorite scent is of course of the live trees. So much gratitude for all the trees offer; may we remember to treat them with honor and respect. Close up image of many sticks of cedar and fir, in a variety of shades of red and pale brown. #52NatureAwarenessChallenge #RuralLife #cedar #westernredcedar #fir #trees #fire #TreeLove #gratitude