Sulaiman R. Khan
- Founder & Chief Radical Officer
- United Kingdom
- Member since 2009
Who is Sulaiman R. Khan (سلیمان رشاد خان), FRSA?
Sulaiman’s (current) Disability pronouns are: Disabled[1]/wheelchair user.
Sulaiman’s (current) pronouns are: he/him/his/Disabled.
Daringly integrating Disability. A Regenerative Leadership and Regenerative Existence Custodian, Sulaiman is a Disabled Oracle. Sulaiman uses his intersectional, anti-ableist, and Disability Justice lens as Founder and Chief Radical Officer of ThisAbility Limited, a Disability (and Person of The Global Majority[2])-led (and owned) justice business and a Certified B Corporation. ThisAbility Limited helps socially conscious organisations focused on regeneration (beyond sustainability), technology, or design to go from ableism to Disability Liberation and integrate Disability Culture. The igniter of hearts creatively, a British-Pakistani Disabled wheelchair user[3] adventurer, and a multiple award-winner, Sulaiman loves to create relationships, stories, and joy. With over 37 years of lived experience of Disability and over 12-years of experience with the creative industries, because of his innate sense of solidarity and desire for justice, he works tirelessly to ignite, invest in, and amplify Disabled creativity across the world for a liberated tomorrow for Disabled people. Radical (the “grasping at the root” definition by Angela Davis), restful, and regenerative: Sulaiman chooses to live in his divinity as a whole and complete person. Sulaiman is infinitely a radical with Adrak (ادرک), Haldi (ہلدی), Zafran (زعفران), and Chambeli (چمیلی) badassery. Ultimately, his life’s work and goal are to create radical, infinite Access Intimacy (as defined by Mia Mingus), Post-Ableism, and Disability Liberation.
Read more about Sulaiman: https://SulaimanRKhan.com
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[1] Personally, Sulaiman uses Disabled interchangeably with Crip (a term only to be used by the Disabled community and in no way by not-yet-Disabled people) as he is done making his Disability palatable for an ableist world. He doesn’t wish to erase his Disability or Disabled identity nor be a part of the “overcoming Disability” and “Disability Paradox” narratives – Sulaiman hasn’t “overcome” his Disability; Sulaiman has overcome ableism and ableists. He prefers not to use problematical person-first language such as “person with a Disability”, and Sulaiman is not keen on using ableist language such as “differently-abled,” “handicapped,” “wheelchair-bound”, or “special needs” that worsens his internalised ableism. This is Sulaiman’s personal choice and may not reflect all Disabled people nor the whole Disability community across the world. We are all on different journeys in our Disabled identity journey, and that’s okay. If in doubt, ask the Disabled person directly.
[2] People of the Global Majority: coined by Rosemary M. Campbell-Stephens, MBE is inclusive of non-white folk around the world. It disrupts the centring and power of whiteness to categorise people, and moves the conversation away from non-white people’s disadvantages, towards their 'added value' and power as the majority of the world’s population. (R. Campbell-Stephens, 2020)
[3] Sulaiman is actively wheeling away with zero tolerance to your ableism, racism, patriarchy, anti-blackness, anti-fatness, colonialism, capitalism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, classism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, hegemony, heteronormativity, carceral ideology, anti-abolition, subjugation, supremacy, toxicity, and all systems of oppression. You can put it where the sun doesn’t shine. And Sulaiman has never been able to walk and doesn't want to ever walk, so as a power wheelchair user, “wheeling away” is Sulaiman’s cheeky take on “walking away.”
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