HABEN GIRMA’S BEAUTY OF BECOMING FILM TRANSCRIPT

HABEN GIRMA: My name is Haben Girma. I’m a black woman. I’m also disabled. SoI experience both racism and ableism in a society that struggles with those two. Disability is an opportunity for innovation. If you face a challenge, that’s an opportunity to come up with a brand new solution, and that solution could end up helping not only you, but the entire community. The disability community is full of these examples. Yes, there’s a challenge. The challenge is to come up with new ways to connect with people, to access information. This is a challenge, both for the disabled person and for the entire community ’cause ultimately, it’s the community’s responsibility to remove the barriers so everyone can be included. We need everyone to be working on inclusion for the entire community, women, people of color, disabled people. It benefits all of us. It behooves all of us to remove the barriers.

Watch Haben’s Beauty of Becoming video below.