Sustaining Us: Building a Writing Practice While Living with Limitations
NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED. 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 […]
Laura Mauldin Book Chat
Laura Mauldin’s new book “In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis” is a rallying cry for a radical reimagining of care—not as an individual act of devotion, but as collective responsibility. Through memoir, reporting, and cultural critique, Laura shows us how ableism is at the heart of […]
Pressure Respirator Mask Pop-up
Y’all, the incredible makers at the UC Berkeley Rad Mad Lab are coming to the DCC to demonstrate how to make DIY positive pressure respirators. You can make and try out the homemade portable respirators during the event! They’re comfy, you can sleep in them, and they’re affordable. Great for wildfire season, avoiding fumes, and […]
Game Night: Dungeons + Dragons
The dice are polished, the snacks are nonstop, the chairs are cozy, and our dungeon masters are ready – it’s our first D&D night! We’ve got the best access-loving DMs in any world coming to run 2-hour disability-loving, one-and-done campaigns. In person, all levels are very welcome to play! Experienced D&D players, you can bring […]
Toolworks Resource Workshop | April 8
Hi Bay Area! Get assistance with IHSS and DOR applications, regional center information, job placement services, Deaf services, discounted Clipper/transit cards, SSI and SSDI benefits counseling. We’re offering in English and ASL, with other translation services as well. Register here.
Hello Darkness: Come play in the light of darkness, with grit, with radiance
Event Organizer: SFPL-Talking Books and Braille Center Venue: San Francisco Public Library -Main lower level – Latino/Hispanic Room Location: 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco Price: Free! Event Description: The Talking Books and Braille Center (TBBC) at the Main of the San Francisco Public Library invites you to bask in the darkness and light of possibilities, […]
Disability Justice Grounded Birthwork: An Immersion Series
Event Organizer: Rise of Riotous Roots Location: Virtual Price: Scholarship and sliding-scale Event Description:Disability Justice Grounded Birthwork: An Immersion Series, is a: 12 week series (10 weeks of content; 2 weeks of community building) on the intersections of Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We will immerse ourselves in the origins of eugenics and how it […]
A Conversation and Literary Reading with Brian Trapp, author of the novel, “Range of Motion”
Event Organizer: Pegasus Books in Berkeley Venue: Pegasus Books in Berkeley Location: 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Price: Free! Event Description: Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown at 6:30pm on Tuesday, March 17th for a reading and author talk with novelist and disability studies scholar Brian Trapp, in conversation with beloved Oakland author Tomas Moniz. We’ll […]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Book Release
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is releasing a new book of poetry “The Way Disabled People Love Each Other.” It’s a fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other, in all our complexity. We’re thrilled to welcome Leah, in person, to celebrate! They will do a reading from the book with an opening […]
Cafe Crip: Black Disability Feminist Framework
Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. This March we’re talking about a Black feminist disability framework. Guided by our facilitator Bianca Laureano, we’ll dig into the intersectionality of oppression and the importance of putting Black Studies and Disability Studies in conversation in order to find gaps […]