Pop-up! Spoonie Salads
We’d love to treat you to lunch on Thursday! Salads can be so tasty and feel really good in the body, but they take so much effort! There’s the chopping, the mixing, the forks, the flavor combos—just all the things. Dagny Brown, DCC co-director and vegetable enthusiast, is hosting an easy salad-making pop-up. Learn all […]
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 […]
Pop-up! Co-Working Day
Come work at the DCC! Whether you bring your laptop to the space or join from home on Discord, let’s support each other in getting the things done. Virtual: dcc.page/discord. In person: 165 Grove Street, San Francisco. Pop-ups are completely optional activities during open hours, with no advanced registration required. So, you can come by […]
Pop-up! Plant Potting
Learn all about propagating succulents and easy house plants! We’ll have soil, pots, seeds, clippings, and lots of good information. No need to register in advance – just come on by if you’d like! Pop-ups are quiet, completely optional activities during open hours, with no registration required. So, you can come by to read, work, […]
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 […]
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 […]