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Disability Justice is a framework that examines disability and ableism as it relates to other forms of oppression and identity (such as race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, incarceration, size, etc). The framework was published in 2005 by the Disability Justice Collective, a group of Back, brown, queer and trans people including Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, and Stacey Milbern. In disability justice, disability is not defined in “white terms, or male terms, or straight terms.” Disability justice also acknowledges that “ableism helps make racism, Christian supremacy, sexism, and queer-and transphobia possible” and that all those systems of oppression are intertwined. The Disability justice framework is being applied to the intersectional reexamination of a wide range of disability, human rights, and justice issues.