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What to Expect When Expecting Sulaiman
This is my Accommodation Document whenever working with Sulaiman.
It’s a guide to all clients on how to interact and work with Sulaiman, in full transparency and disclosure.
Disclosure (Google Doc)Get in Touch With Sulaiman R. Khan
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- Email: hello@SulaimanRKhan.com
- Speaking requests: please contact Tia Denton at ThisAbility® Limited; tia.denton@ThisAbility.net
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Image Description: Landscape closeup from a secret and sacred family trip to Scotland in July 2023 of Sulaiman (a wholeheartedly Disabled AF, British-Pakistani man with black buzz cut hair and tattoos on each wrist). Sitting in his new Permobil M5 Corpus power wheelchair at full elevated height. He's on the balcony deck @The_Treehouses of Lanrick in his wheelchair-accessible treehouse, amongst the canopy of tremendous trees, Sulaiman’s non-human kin. Next to him is a green moss-covered tree growing through the balcony deck. A forest of tender trees in the background. Sulaiman is wearing his new white t-shirt via his dearest friend @JTKnoxRoxs featuring a red and pink illustrated eye with a star shining in the pupil. Representative of our demand for radical healing and dreaming. Underneath, dark red uppercase text reads “Calling all radical resters” and various dark red illustrated stars. Sulaiman has a huge smile, feeling joyful for and grateful for every radical breath he takes every single second of every day.
Image Description: A smiling, joyful Sulaiman (wholeheartedly Disabled AF, British-Pakistani man with buzz cut black hair), sits in his power wheelchair for a portrait by the Brand By Me team. Sulaiman wears his rainbow-coloured mesh jacket over a black shirt with bright pink flamingos. He wears a yellow and black badge that says "Black Disabled Lives Matter" via his dear friend Jennifer White-Johnson. As well as a pure silver chain pendant from his late Nanaji (maternal grandfather). It was made for Sulaiman when he was 15, and was rediscovered early this year. The pendant says "Raja Sulaiman" in Urdu, which his Nanaji called him. Sulaiman wears this pendant to remember and honour his late Nanaji, ancestors, and descendants. Sulaiman understands (and respects) that he is the link from his ancestors to his descendants.
Image Description: Sulaiman (a wholeheartedly Disabled AF and British-Pakistani man with buzzcut black hair) sitting in his power wheelchair. He is making his signature "playful-surprised eyes" look. Wearing his Black Disabled Lives Matter face mask in black, via his dear friend Jennifer White-Johnson. As well as a blue sequinned t-shirt over a black long-sleeve top. On top is his yellow and black (also from Jen) Black Disabled Lives Matter badge, his red and blue glitter lightning bolt badge via his friend Juliet Eccleston, and his pure silver chain and pendant from his late Nanaji (maternal grandfather). It was made for Sulaiman over 23 years ago, when he was 15, and was rediscovered early this year. The pendant says "Raja Sulaiman" in Urdu, which his Nanaji called him. Sulaiman wears this pendant to remember and honour his late Nanaji, ancestors, and descendants. Sulaiman understands (and respects) that he is the link from his ancestors to his descendants. He has a white handwritten name tag sticker on his left side.
Image Descriptions: Sexy, spicy, and sacred. Black and white portrait of Sulaiman (a wholeheartedly Disabled AF, British-Pakistani man with buzzcut black hair) by the legendary Rankin and team at the Art Car Boot Fair in London on 16 September 2023. He's in his power wheelchair, since walking and standing are so overrated. Sulaiman smiles, feeling joyful and badass in his radically bold, wild, fearless existence. He wears a pure silver chain and pendant made by his late Nanaji (maternal grandfather). It was made for Sulaiman when he was 15, and was rediscovered early this year. The pendant says "Raja Sulaiman" in Urdu, which his Nanaji affectionately called him. Sulaiman wears this pendant to remember and honour his late Nanaji, ancestors, and descendants. Sulaiman understands (and respects) that he is the link from his ancestors to his descendants. It deliberately faces flipped towards his heart. Sulaiman wears his sequin biker jacket via Phix Clothing and Party Leopard Meggings via Kapow Meggings.
Who is Sulaiman R. Khan — سلیمان راشد خان?
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One Sentence
Sulaiman R. Khan – سلیمان راشد خان [he/him/his] is a spicy Global Majority spicy Disabled AF oracle and a radical Disabled AF: Founder, Writer, and Storyliving Designer.
50-word Biography
Sulaiman R. Khan — سلیمان راشد خان [he/him/his]
Daringly integrating Disability. Disabled AF: Founder, Writer, and Storyliving Designer. Sulaiman’s life goals are to design interdependent ecosystems of care that centre access intimacy, and to commit daily acts of Revolutionary LOVE® that create radical systemic change, towards collective liberation.
100-word Biography
Sulaiman R. Khan — سلیمان راشد خان [he/him/his]
Daringly integrating Disability. Multiple award-winning Disabled AF: Founder, Writer, and Storyliving Designer. A spicy Global Majority Disabled AF Oracle. Founder and Chief Radical Officer at ThisAbility® Limited, and Founder of Revolutionary LOVE®. Sought-after speaker and writer. A joyful activist from his first breath, until his last breath, he designs enthralling Storyliving ecosystems from the sacred outer fringes. Sulaiman’s life goals are to design interdependent ecosystems of care that centre access intimacy, and to commit daily acts of Revolutionary LOVE® that create radical systemic change, towards collective liberation.
Full Biography
Sulaiman’s (current) Disability pronouns are: Disabled1/wheelchair user.
Sulaiman’s (current) pronouns are: he/him/his/Disabled.
Multiple award-winning Disabled AF: Founder, Writer, and Storyliving Designer. Adventurer and Continual Work-In-Progress. Creating relationships, stories, and joy.
Daringly Integrating Disability. Global Majority2 Disabled AF oracle.
Sulaiman’s life goals are to design interdependent ecosystems of care that centre access intimacy, and to commit daily acts of Revolutionary LOVE® that create radical systemic change, towards collective liberation.3
Conformity, palatability, and dehumanisation are built on fear, hate, intolerance, scarcity, and injustice. Revolutions are made with community care, collective liberation, interdependence, and, most critically, revolutions are built on love. Revolutionary Love is the only way forward for our (collective and loving) thriving beyond surviving. Healing is interdependent and intertwined. We choose Revolutionary Love as our North Star for the collective liberation of all of our kin (by blood or bond, our human and more-than-human kin, and our inner and outer selves). I will be my own North Star by existing infinitely through Revolutionary Love. In simple terms, this means don’t be an arsehole; leave that energy and behaviour back to pre-2020. I, for one, refuse to be an arsehole because I’m too much of a (and too busy being a) revolutionary lover.
Onwards and upwards.
Read the Full Bio (Google Doc)Footnote 1
Personally, Sulaiman uses Disabled interchangeably with Crip (a term only to be used by the Disabled community and in no way to be used by not-yet-Disabled people) as he’s 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 “overcoming Disability” and “Disability Paradox” narratives — Sulaiman hasn’t “overcome” his Disability; he has overcome ableism and ableists.
He prefers not to use problematical person-first language such as “person with a Disability”, and he 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.
Footnote 2
People of the Global Majority: coined by Rosemary M. Campbell-Stephens MBE is “a collective term that first and foremost speaks to and encourages those so-called, to think of themselves as belonging to the majority on planet earth. It refers to people who are Black, African, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or, have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities'. Globally these groups currently represent approximately eighty per cent (80%) of the world's population, making them the global majority now, and with current growth rates, notwithstanding the Covid-19 pandemic, they are set to remain so for the foreseeable future. Understanding that singular truth may shift the dial, it certainly should permanently disrupt and relocate the conversation on race.” (R. Campbell-Stephens, 2020).
This term aligns wholeheartedly with Sulaiman’s Disabled AF Oracle wisdom, British-Pakistani (non-binary male) existence, and Queer-creative energy. It is his way of wheeling away from all systems of oppression, including but not limited to no longer being capitalism’s plaything, ableism’s commodity, racism’s tool for power, colonialism’s puppet for violence, white supremacy culture’s fetish for manipulation, cis-able neocolonial-racist-supremacist heteronormative patriarchy’s armour for bullying, and oppression’s pawn for harm.
I’m wheeling away with zero tolerance to your ableism (as defined by Talila A. Lewis), racism, misogynoir, audism, vidism, patriarchy, anti-matriarchy, anti-blackness, anti-fatness, colonialism/settler colonialism, capitalism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, classism, antisemitism, Islamophobia/anti-Muslim hate, orientalism, xenophobia, hegemony, heteronormativity, anti-post colonial/green anarchism, anti-relationship anarchy, anti-Access Intimacy (as defined by Mia Mingus), anti-Revolutionary LOVE® (as defined by Sulaiman R. Khan), anti-Funga Justice (as defined by Sulaiman R. Khan), anti-Disability Justice, unhoused acceptance, carceral/the prison industrial complex ideology, ageism, linguicism, state violence, anti-abolition, subjugation, supremacy/white supremacy culture, toxicity, and all your systems of oppression. Oppressors, you can put it where the sun doesn’t shine. Also, I have never been able to walk and don’t want to ever walk. So, as a power wheelchair user, ‘wheeling away’ is my cheeky way of saying ‘walking away.’ Walking is overrated!
Footnote 3
ThisAbility and Revolutionary LOVE are registered trademarks of ThisAbility® Limited at The Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom. ThisAbility Trademark number: UK00003954170. Revolutionary LOVE Trademark number: UK00003954175.