Moving Together Towards Collective Access (Dispatch)

We Move Together (WMT) (Fritsch et al., 2021) is a picture book that follows a mixed-ability group of children as they move around their city community.We see the children move in different ways -fast, slow, using their feet as well as wheelchairs, scooters, crutches, bikes, and canes.Along the way, the kids encounter a great many people and animals, as well as a number of obstaclescommunication barriers, inaccessible infrastructure, political disagreements, etc. -that they work together to navigate.With regard to these obstacles, sometimes the work of moving together looks like building ramps, pivoting to a more inclusive game, or learning American Sign Language (ASL).Other times, this work looks like slowing down, sitting with disagreement, or taking a break.It is in part through navigating these challenges that the children encounter, relish in, and in turn grow disability community and culture.The children's commitment to moving together -their desire for collective as opposed to individual forms of access -deliver them into new political and artistic spaces, justice-oriented cultural formations that center disabled life, celebrate disabled joy, and encourage the flourishing of the widest array of bodies, minds, and movements.In Figure 1 the children can be seen at the center of such a flourishing: an abundance of disabled life and politics.It is as much a celebration of how our individual bodies and minds are and move, as it is a fulcrum of social movements moving together in solidarity, dreaming of, and fighting for better futures for all of us.