Haki Collective was born out of the global uprisings for racial justice after the police murder of George Floyd, when Disabled Black Lives Matter formed to centre Black and Global Majority Disabled people in the struggle against racism and disablism.
Racial justice movements and disability rights spaces had long treated race and disability as separate issues, leaving Disabled Black people absent from leadership, strategy, and storytelling.
Haki emerged to confront this erasure and the silos between movements, naming how white supremacy fragments our struggles into single-issue campaigns that cannot hold the realities of those who live at the sharpest intersections.
Rooted in disability justice and Black liberation, Haki asserts that racism and ableism are co-constructed systems and must be confronted together.
The collective exists so that Black and Global Majority Disabled people define our own agendas, lead our own organising, and build a future where our communities are not only included, but recognised as central to transforming the conditions that harm us.
We salute and acknowledge the great leadership of Michelle Daley and Saida Nelson in the formation of Haki Collective.
Our vision
A social justice movement ecosystem where the artificial separation between racial and disability justice is recognised as a tool of oppression, where Black and Global Majority Disabled people's leadership is centred, and where all liberation movements understand their work as interconnected.
Our mission
To address the specific ways that racism and ableism intersect in Black and Global Majority Disabled people's lives, highlighting how these experiences are interlinked and shaped by the same systems of oppression.