Mia Mingus

Writer & Journalist

she/her/hers

OAKLAND, CA

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A Korean woman with warm light skin, long dark hair, big square glasses, and wearing a denim shirt sits casually outside in a wooden chair backdropped by foliage and stares confidently into the camera.

Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and community organizer for Disability justice and transformative justice. She is a queer physically disabled Korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. She works for community, interdependence, and a home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love. Mingus helped create and move forward the Disability justice framework. Her blog, Leaving Evidence, has become a valuable resource for those wanting to learn about disability. Her writings on disability have been used around the world and are part of college and university curricula. Mingus has played a key role in connecting disability with other movements and communities and has worked tirelessly to educate different communities about disability, ableism, access, and abled supremacy. At the forefront of transformative justice work for over 15 years, Mingus is a founding member of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, a collective working to build and support transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse, and has helped to train communities and groups across North America on transformative justice.