Cafe Crip: Environmental Justice + Climate Change
Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. Environmental Justice and Climate Change. Vanessa Raditz and Patty Berne said it best: “If we can build an intersectional climate justice movement—one that incorporates disability justice, that centers disabled people of color and queer and gender nonconforming folks with disabilities—our species might […]
BIPOC Creatives: Unfinished Works
Join Alex Locust and Shaina Ghuraya in their co-hosted space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to explore creativity and process together. You can share your thoughts and feelings, bounce around ideas, hang back and simply enjoy time in community, or basically whatever fills your beautiful cup. October’s theme is “Unfinished Works.” We’ll chat […]
Adaptive Strength + Conditioning with BORP
Join Jorge Macias from Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program for an Adaptive Strength and Conditioning workshop. This offering is perfect if you want to build a strength and conditioning practice, but ‘traditional’ equipment and movement don’t fit your body. Jorge will work with folks individually and as a group to find the right tools […]
Wellness Wednesday: Acupuncture | October 2026
You know what feels good? Acupuncture! It relieves stress and pain, gives us quiet moments and gentle care, and lets us feel brave because it’s needles. Win-win-win! We have two incredible acupuncturists, Danni and Elokin, coming to provide (free!) 30-minute sessions at the DCC and will both test for COVID and wear masks. Please arrive […]
MacArthur Series: Crip Aesthetics as Art
Alice Wong, MacArthur Fellow and beloved oracle of our lifetime, envisioned a series of discussions that take disabled brilliance to the messy middle of our current struggles for justice, equity, and access. The DCC, together with the MacArthur Fellows at 45 series and Fellow Josh Miele, is proud to honor Alice’s vision with a four-part […]
Sustaining Us: Writing Academy with Esmé Wang
Our stories are everything. They are our anchor to the present, the legacy we leave, the windy path toward our future, and our portal to dimensions that only we can imagine. We need to write and share our stories. All that said, we all know that it’s HELLA hard to sustain a writing practice. The […]
Crip Elders: Kathy Martinez
The roots of disability culture, rights, and justice go deep in the Bay Area. We are part of an incredible legacy of organizers and activists who have developed revolutionary strategies for resistance and social change that center care, sustainability, and our collective humanity. The DCC’s Crip Elders series is all about honoring and learning from […]
Tune-up Tuesday | October 2026
Whether it’s a busted wheel, need for resources, a maintenance check, or your dream of that perfect accessory, bring your mobility device to Tune-Up Tuesday! Liz Henry and Olga Prilepova from Grassroots Open Assistive Technology, and Vincent Lopez from the ILRCSF Wheelchair Repair Program, will be at the DCC every first Tuesday to talk about […]
△ Nazariya Art Showcase
We’ve been so honored and delighted to host Nishita Rao’s △ Nazariya Art Showcase at the DCC. Nishita is an interdisciplinary artist and sex educator who creates her pieces by experimenting with different combinations of tools and media. If we usually use ink on paper, what is it like if we use a ceramic tile […]
Accessible Pilates
Friends, how’s your body feeling? Could you use a little alignment, core, and posture support? Yeah, us too. Accessible Pilates instructor, Olive Patton, is coming to the DCC to teach an evening Accessible Pilates class. We’ll work together on low-impact strength-building movement patterns that help us feel better in these beautiful, sacred bodies we love. […]