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, […]
Echoes of the City: Days of Future Present
Event Organizer: Vanessa Hernández Cruz Description: We are so excited to welcome our third Fall 2026 facilitator Dominic Bradley for Echoes of the City: Disability Arts Exchange! This will be an art workshop on self and community archiving. Participants will collaborate in a digital platform like Weje to create a collective near-term vision board that […]
Psychiatric Abuse Survivors Circle
Event Organizer: Los Angeles Spoonie Collective Event Description: Have you had a negative experience while receiving mental health services? Were you ever forced to stay in a mental health institution? Join Los Angeles Spoonie Collective for our Psychiatric Abuse Survivors Circle to discuss your experiences in a safer space. This will be a closed space […]
How To Talk To Your Deaf and AAC using Client (for Sex Educators and Therapists)
Event Organizer: Cripping Up Sex Unlocking Autonomy: Accessible Sex Ed for AAC Users & Deaf Students and Clients Event Description: Communication is the foundation of consent, safety, and self-expression. Yet non-verbal students using AAC and Deaf or hard of hearing students are routinely left out of essential sex education. Without explicit signs or programmed vocabulary […]
Dating for Disabled Youth
Event Organizer: Cripping Up Sex Event Description: Crushes, Questions, and Connection: A Dating Workshop for Disabled YouthDating can feel like a whole puzzle—especially when most dating advice acts like disabled bodies and minds don’t exist. How do you figure out your vibe, know if you actually like someone, or build up the nerve to ask […]
Crip Writers Collective: Writing Bodily Archives
Event Organizer: Los Angeles Spoonie Collective Event Description: Interested in creating poetry that speaks to you as a Disabled, neurodivergent, or chronically ill person? If so, join us for a workshop that explores how we can subvert the violences of medical and diagnostic language to rewrite our bodily stories. Let’s cut the medical language that […]
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 […]
Tune-up Tuesday
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! Grassroots Open Assistive Technology and the ILRCSF Wheelchair Repair Program will be at the DCC every first Tuesday to help give your wheelchair, powerchair, scooter, rollator, walker, or other mobility […]
Valkyries Finals Game 3 Watch Party!
Y’ALL!!!!!! The Valkyries made the WNBA FINALS! We love them so much. They’ve turned a bunch of sports skeptics into die-hard fans. To quote star forward Gabby Williams, “It just feels right.” LFG. There are plenty of places to watch the game, but nobody does it like us. Let’s mask up and cheer them to […]
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 […]