Resources

A non-exhaustive list of on-campus resources, support, and consultative services to enrolled and eligible undergraduate and graduate students. Included are contacts for disability services, medical care, crisis intervention, confidential legal consultation, no-cost food resources, and more.

Student Health and Wellness

• Rutgers–Newark Office of Disability Services
• Rutgers–Newark Student Health Services
• Rutgers–Newark Counseling Center
• Rutgers University Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance
• RU–N Pantry+

Financial Aid, Legal Clinics, and LGBTQ+ Resources

• Rutgers–Newark Office of Financial Aid
• Rutgers–Newark Office of Undocumented Student Services
• Rutgers Immigrant Community Assistance Project
• Rutgers Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic
• Rutgers–Newark Resources for Undocumented Students
• Rutgers–Newark Intercultural Resource Center
• Rutgers–Newark Affairs LGBTQ+ Student Services

A non-exhaustive list of local, state, and county resources, including contacts for medical care, crisis intervention, home energy assistance, immigration assistance, early-childhood education, housing counseling, food resources, and more.

Health and Wellness

• La Casa de Don Pedro, Inc.
• NIA Newark Specialty Pantry Monthly
• ICNA Relief New Jersey
• Newark Community Health Centers, Inc
• Essex County Food Pantries
• United Community Corporation Newark Food & Clothing Pantry

Financial Aid, Legal Clinics, and LGBTQ+ Resources

• Newark LGBTQ Community Center
• African American Office of Gay Concerns
• Project Wow North Jersey Community Research Initiative 
• Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark
• Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark – Immigrant and Refugee Services
• American Friends Service Committee – New Jersey Immigrant Rights
• Newark Public Library

Dominant definitions of disability have deferred to the “expert knows best” over the person themselves, which often leaves out the perspectives of those most impacted. Disability justice is a transformative pathway to creating person-centered practices, policies, and systems. Resources include a range of insights from activists, advocates, and researchers.

• Sins Invalid In-Depth 10 Principals of Disability Justice
• In Her Own Words: Remembering and Honoring Stacey Park Milbern
• Center for Racial and Disability Justice
• Black Disability National Coalition
• Ford Foundation Disability Demands Justice

Supports offers learners recommendations for developing inclusive and person-centered practices when interacting with people with disabilities. Resources help learners develop disability etiquette, including action-oriented efforts to create mindful and affirmative interactions.

• Disability Etiquette and Affirmative Interaction
• Ability 360 Disability Etiquette Tips
• United Spinal Association
• Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association Disability Etiquette

Resources offer learners applicable guidelines for inclusive communication when talking with and about individuals with disabilities. Resources offer examples of inclusive and first-person language.

• Stanford University’s Disability Language Guide
• United Nations Disability-Inclusive Language Guidelines
• ADA National Network Guidelines for Writing about People with Disabilities
• PBS Standards Inclusive Language

Zine-Making Pen Pal Resources

Resources provide learners with an awareness of how disabled liberation and a world free of confinement are interconnected. The SickofIt! project is a cross-movement project that amplifies the voices of incarcerated disabled people through zines and letter-writing.

Websites:

• SickofIt!
• Innocence Project How to Write People Who are Incarcerated
• Letters for Liberation
• Prison Correspondence Project
• Liat Ben-Moshe Decarcerating Disability Publications

A non-exhaustive list of resources shared at the two-day, Aftermaths of War events held on November 12, 2024 and November 13, 2024 including contacts, poetry, podcasts, and documentaries.

Websites: 

• Historias para lo que viene Documentary by Catalina Muñoz
• Guantánamo Public Memory Project Multimedia Project by Liz Ševčenko
• Poets.org Poems by Sinan Antoon
• The Philippines and the University of Michigan, 1870-1935, Multimedia Project curated by Deirdre de la Cruz
• Preserving Palestinian History through Tatreez Podcast by Wafa Ghnaim

A non-exhaustive list of resources shared during Racial Justice, Reparations, and the University Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series. This list includes digital archives, books, articles, and toolkits.

• Making a Place: Rhythms, Ruptures, and Rutgers in 1960s Newark (click to download .pdf)
  “The publication expands professor Eva Giloi’s exhibition, Making a Place: Rutgers University-Newark as a Microcosm of 1960s America, at John Cotton Dana Library. It reinterprets archival material about the intentions and process of the campus’s construction into a self-reflection on the university’s postwar legacy and contrasting effects on the city. A two-column, modular grid layout corresponds to the narrative about modernist architecture, interjecting subversive typography to reinforce connections between words, photographs, and graphics.”
• Scarlet and Black ProjectThe Scarlet and Black Project sheds light on the legacy of slavery and dispossession at Rutgers University. The project has published three books, a virtual campus tour, and a digital archive tracing the history of race at Rutgers over two and a half centuries, from slavery to Black Lives Matter.
• New Jersey Reparations Council, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
• The Movement For Black Lives (MB4L) Reparations Now Toolkit
• Book: In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower by Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin
• Book: Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò
• Article: The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A non-exhaustive list of resources shared during the Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series. This list includes local resources, films, podcasts, and websites.

Local Resources and Movements:

• Newark Water Coalition
• Humanities Action Lab Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice
• Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice – The Quilting Water Project
• New Jersey Reparations Council for Environmental Justice
• Ironbound Environmental Justice

Readings: