Crip Reads Book Club
Calling all book enthusiasts! Interested in being in a book club this Winter? Join the Los Angeles Spoonie Collective as we discuss Mutual Aid by Dean Spade. Event Organizer: Los Angeles Spoonie Collective Event Location: Virtual Ticket Price: Free Registration Information: bit.ly/CripReads122026 Access: Captions, Audio Description – Optional, ASL Deadline for Access Requests: Nov 24, […]
Cafe Crip: Elections
Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. This month we’re discussing and decompressing after the midterm elections. Bring your excitement, hope, rage, fears, strategies – we love all of it. We send readings in advance, but they are optional, and there will be plenty of opportunities to […]
Fall Feast | Honoring Alice Wong
November 2026 marks a year since Alice Wong became an ancestor. We miss her dearly, and still feel her incisive wit, creativity, love, and hospitality at the DCC every day. Please join us for our annual fall feast, honoring Alice Wong. We’ll be serving up some of Alice’s favorite foods, sharing a reading from her […]
Chronic Pain Care Circle
There is so much beauty and joy in disability – and there can also be so much pain. It’s hard work to get through flares and manage the daily levels – it feels impossible in a culture that doesn’t acknowledge our reality. Come be with people who care deeply and want to hear about you. […]
Being Heumann Watch Party
Y’all, “Being Heumann,” a biopic about Judy Heumann and the 504 sit-in, is coming out! It’s authentically cast and looks genuinely fun and entertaining! So, we’re having a watch party, followed by a discussion between two of the sharpest, funniest baddies we know: 504 protester Corbett O’Toole and a special guest. They’ll talk about what […]
MASK-erade: Halloween in Crip Time
Covid-safer Halloween party in crip time? ABSOLUTELY. We’ll mask, we’ll Covid test, we’ll dance, we’ll have a costume runway with prizes, there will be treats to go, and we’ll end by 7:30 so we can get a good night’s rest. Perfect right? It’s going to be great. Access stuff: The party will be indoors and […]
Filmmaking 201: Editing + Audio Description
You know that feeling when you have something to share, but you’re not sure how to do it? Maybe you need to tell your story or illuminate a community or a struggle that is dear to you. Or do you have a cast of characters that you can’t wait to introduce to the world? You […]
Employment Law Consultations
We’re so excited to welcome volunteer lawyers from the California Employment Lawyers Association’s Worker Outreach Committee for free, virtual, confidential consultations! They are experienced in employment law and can address issues including disability accommodations, the interactive process for disability accommodations requirements, medical and sick leave, whistleblower protections, and other forms of unlawful discrimination and retaliation, […]
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 […]