Curation for All Modules
Overview
The curation for all AMDJ modules reflects our collaborative and individual disciplinary efforts to center care in our collective learning. As Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us, “freedom is a place” that we must consider how we “make over and over again.” What is the mix of how we learn, and what are the supports to creating a place that is infused with dignity, hope, and mutual aid. A place that is free of punitive systems that seek oppression and amplify the prison-industrial complex.
Our hope in creating the modules is to curate multiple conversations that center care and our collective efforts to make a place of freedom, over and over again. They are designed to support educators, community members, and learners in understanding how systems produce inequity, and how collaborative, justice-centered practices can help reimagine care within and beyond institutional spaces. Together, these modules form a shared resource rooted in disability justice and abolitionist frameworks.
For our collective, centering care means:
Care for the source: Honoring the labor, context, and consent of those whose work is being shared
Care for the community: Prioritizing accessibility, safety, and collective benefit over institutional metrics
Care for the future: Considering how today’s choices affect tomorrow’s possibilities for liberation and healing
Care for the curator: Refusing burnout culture; care work must be sustainable and supported, not invisible
This is curation as resistance. Refusing to treat knowledge as property, refusing to separate “value” from human dignity, and refusing to let systems of oppression dictate what deserves to be remembered.
How to Use the Modules
The modules are organized into three broad categories:
Introductory Modules - These modules are meant to provide a theoretical foundation in disability justice and abolition medicine.
Creative Practice Modules - These didactic exercises seek to impart skills or creative teachings that intersect with health and well-being and tie back to disability justice teachings.
Engagement Modules for Books - These modules are based on specific texts/educational writing and are meant to compliment the texts they are associated with.
Within the instructional category, there are modules that are designed for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. Following the sharetools.org format, each module provides an overview of the lesson plan, learning objectives, facilitators, participants’ preparation time, preparation resources, and suggestions for teaching the module.