Minjie began her journey into disability work through doing disability rights research, which opened her eyes to the wide range of access considerations relevant to all areas of life.
She is a firm believer in Disability Justice community organiser Mia Mingus’s perspective that access work should be driven by justice, community and love, not solely logistical concerns.
Curious to know what Mia Mingus’s perspective would look like in practice, she took on the role of Accessibility Coordinator for the “Activism in Crisis” digital festival, which drew over 500 participants and 43 speakers. This experience gave her deep insights into what events’ access coordination entails, both the technical and “soft skills” aspects.
At Equal Dreams today, she has the opportunity to deepen her exploration and learning of access work through developing various training programmes and providing access services like Speech-to-Text Interpreting (STTI). She is excited to create more spaces where more people could see how invigorating, creative and healing access work can be!