We stand for disability justice
Joyful Mind Project began as way for our founder, Meikyo Chelsea True, to get her own access needs met. Impacted by disability and ableism related to neurodiversity, disenfranchised grief, and gender-based violence, Meikyo founded JMP by looking beyond individual accommodations and seeing complex systems creating exclusion.
Disability Justice recognizes that disability is shaped by these complex systems, including ableism, racism, classism, gender oppression, colonialism, and other forms of inequity.
Joyful Mind Project now helps build communities where disabled people, neurodivergent people, and people living with health differences are respected as whole human beings—not defined by diagnoses, barriers, or assumptions.
Our commitments
We practice:
Centering the leadership and lived experience of disabled and neurodivergent people.
Creating trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and neurodiversity-affirming spaces.
Access as an ongoing responsibility—not a one-time checklist.
Honoring different ways of communicating, learning, moving, relating, and participating.
Challenging ableism in mental-health care, education, workplaces, and community life.
Offering services that are compassionate, affordable, and responsive to people’s real circumstances.
Recognizing that rest, interdependence, and mutual care as essential—not exceptional.
Access is part of belonging
Access means more than entering a space. It means having meaningful opportunities to participate, contribute, make decisions, and be heard. We are committed to continually improving how we communicate, offer services, and welcome people. We invite feedback about barriers you experience and ways we can make our programs and spaces more accessible.
Moving from inclusion to liberation
Inclusion can ask people to adapt themselves to systems that were not designed for them. Disability justice asks us to transform those systems. That transformation includes valuing interdependence, expanding our ideas about wellness, and creating conditions where people can receive support without shame. It means making room for disabled joy, creativity, leadership, grief, resistance, and rest.
Join us
Disability Justice is collective work. Whether you are seeking support, building a more accessible organization, or learning how to practice solidarity, there is a place for you in this movement.
Together, we can create communities rooted in dignity, access, mutual care, and liberation.
LEarn More
To learn more, be sure to visit Mia Mingus, a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice.