Dignity Fund Needs Assessment Forum
Department of Disability and Aging Services (DAS) is conducting the 2025-26 Dignity Fund Community Needs Assessment — and they need your help! DAS is gathering input from older adults, people with disabilities, veterans, caregivers, and service providers across the city to better understand their needs. This feedback will directly shape how we fund and provide services […]
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. Our facilitator, LOTUS BOY, will guide our third Chronic Pain Care Circle. We’ll focus […]
Mask Decorating & Collective Grief
Join the Disability Cultural Center and Senior Disability Action as we partner up to learn from and participate in the Collective Loss Adaptation Project (CLAP). Together, we’ll process our collective grief and decorate masks in honor of disabled losses (both deaths and disenfranchised losses) that will be used in a future art installation honoring disabled […]
Earth Angels: Accessible QT Dance Party and Virgo Celebration
Clean Air Network and King LOTUS BOY Co-Produced by Clean Air Network and King LOTUS BOY – Earth Angels is an event BY and FOR disabled and COVID-conscious community! In true Virgo season spirit, we are going all out: Drag Show Local Vendor Market Theme is: EcoSexual vs. Ethereal. Dressing up is highly encouraged CASH […]
Pop-up! Grad School Support
Co-director, scholar activist, lecturer, PhD, and former (but loooong-time) university employee is popping up to support you with applications, talk access in academia, affirm your horror stories, and chat disability studies. Pop-ups are completely optional activities during open hours, with no advanced registration required. So, you can come by to work, snack, or join the […]
Virtual Tea and Tour
Back by popular demand, we’re offering our virtual community a tour and chance to sip a cup of tea with the leaders of the Disability Cultural Center. Settle in and let us show you around our indoor-outdoor hybrid home – it has changed even since our launch last month! Share your ideas for our programs, […]
I, Spastic by Neil Marcus Book Talk
Neil Marcus famously described disability as “an art, an ingenious way to live.” This event celebrates the contributions Neil made to disability culture in his lifetime, as captured in his posthumously published autobiography, I, Spastic. Join Neil’s sister Kendra, Neil’s writing assistant S.H Chambers, and moderator Rosemary McDonnell-Horita as we look back on clips, hear […]
Pop-up! Job Search Support
Lots of things are better in community – board game nights, dinner parties, poetry workshops, etc. But at the very top of that list: JOB SEARCHING. No matter where you are in your employment journey, seeking out new opportunities is a vulnerable and isolating process. If you’d like some company while you apply for jobs, […]
Cafe Crip: Science Fiction
Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. For August, we’re visiting the worlds of science fiction and disability. Let’s talk about traveling through space and time, exploring the multiverse, and connecting to wild imaginings. Also, we don’t always love a supercrip, but do we sometimes love a […]
Sustaining Us: Get Podcasting!
Do you have creative energy for podcasts and storytelling? In this next installment of our Sustaining Us series, we welcome Cheryl and Thomas from POD Access. They’ll lead an interactive and informative workshop aimed at getting more d/Deaf and disabled folks podcasting. From technical skills and advice to building interdependent networks and promotion, POD Access […]