Creating possibility from experience
Since October 2018, a group on a social network messaging app began to become a stimulating forum where various families shared their own experiences regarding their children’s schooling. That group, which initially had no other intention than to share, ended up discussing on many occasions the resistance processes they were developing to defend the right to education in each of their contexts.
This sharing within the group has led to this sharing outwards, with the hope that their experiences can be the rebellious seed of an unpostponable change.
It is extremely difficult, it seems like a wall to us, but there has to be a crack that makes it fall, because it is all of us.
Marta Casal
How to dissent
Activism for equity, inclusive education, and the rights of people labeled by disability has been the nexus that has united this collective to share their experiences through this guide, raising their voices against all kinds of injustices: those that seem minuscule but end up drowning us day by day, those that make school an inhospitable place, those that relegate humanity to a secondary level and sometimes hit us with full force. Because to dissent 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 dissent. 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 the process of disagreeing with injustices, thereby creating a community that builds new paths, imaginaries, and destinies.
Radikales desadaptadas
Radikales Desadaptadasis a collective made up of family members 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 affect them. Mothers, fathers, and/or siblings of people defined by disability who have opened alternative paths to ensure their family members’ right to education is recognized, and who unite to build collective proposals based on inclusion and equity, under the umbrella of the Social MovementQuererla es Crearla .
Steps doubly illustrated
How to dissent. A guide (or companion)has been published by Editorial Octaedro. It outlines a series of steps that can serve anyone in their task of showing disagreement with what happens at school and proposing alternatives.
To this end, the book uses two forms of illustration:
Thephotographs by Paula Verde, which head the entire text in a beautiful, creative, and challenging way.
The storiesthat run through each proposed step. These stories offer the greatest legitimacy to what the text proposes.
