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How to dissent. A guide (or companion)

Radikales Desadaptadas Collective.

Press release from Octaedro Editorial

Activism for equity, inclusive education, and the rights of people labeled by disability has been the link that has united the collective Radikales Desadaptadas to share, through this guide, their experiences of speaking out against all kinds of injustices: those that seem minuscule but end up suffocating us daily, those that make school an inhospitable place, those that relegate humanity to a secondary level and sometimes hit us with full force. Because disagreeing is a verb that all people in this collective have conjugated on multiple occasions, aware that all human, social, economic, and cultural rights have always been won through dissent. Not doing so means accepting the permanence of the inequalities that crush us, and which are often understood as natural and inevitable. 

These pages are, therefore, an invitation to disagree. To question the current order of things, which places some people in a subordinate and defenseless position. It is necessary for these voices to be heard in school and in other spaces where life unfolds, because they hold the key to humanizing and recreating them. This guide aims to accompany you in that process of disagreeing with injustices, thereby creating a community that builds new paths, new imaginaries, new destinies.

Authorship

Radikales Desadaptadas Collective(composed of Leticia Barbadillo, Ignacio Calderón, Alejandro Calleja, Marta Casal, Concha Casasnovas, Susana Fajardo, María Luisa Fernández, Sandra Fernández, María José G. Corell, Sonia Hermida, Belén Jurado, Luz Mojtar, Carmen Moreno, Carmen Saavedra, Fernanda Valdés, and Paula Verde).

Radikales Desadaptadasis a collective made up of families of people with functional diversity who have had to exercise different forms of dissent on countless occasions to fight against various forms of oppression that ensnare them. Mothers, fathers, or siblings of people defined by disability who have opened alternative paths for their family members’ right to education to be recognized and who come together to build collective proposals based on inclusion and equity, under the umbrella of the social movement “Quererla es Crearla».

Index

  1. Who is this guide for
  2. Introduction
  3. Steps
    • Identify the situation
    • Offer alternatives and solutions
    • Inform yourself and get informed
    • Prepare yourself emotionally
    • Seek alliances
    • Appeal to higher authorities
    • Document the process
    • Public denunciation
    • Value the results (and consequences)
    • Add your name
  4. Advice
  5. Resources

More information

  • Open Access – Open access.
  • Collection: Out of collection.
  • Topic: Education, Educational Policies, Attention to Diversity; Society, Mental Health, Families.
  • Gender: Non-fiction
  • ISBN: 9788410282223 Ref. 90036-1
  • Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
  • Pages: 92 (15.5 MB) Format: ePDF

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