Filmmaking 101 | How to Write a Script
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? Shaina […]
Pleasure Chat | Polyamory
Our bodies and our pleasure are magnificent, complicated, fluid, and so beautiful. For this pleasure chat, we’re delving into Polyamory. We’ll talk about the many ways to be in intimate relationships, with consent as a living practice for our bodies and minds. Facilitator Bianca Laureano will guide us through an open, respectful, and loving conversation […]
Townhall | 2026
Dearest DCC Family, please join us for our 2026 Town Hall! We’re going to look back over the past year and chat about what’s next. Come with your questions, insights, hopes, and dreams. This community is everything – we’re here for all of it! Masks will be required inside for the in-person event. If it’s […]
Open Source Assistive Technology Hackathon
Event Organizer: GitHub Venue: GitHub Headquarters Location: 88 Colin P Kelly Junior Street, San Francisco Price: Free! Event Description: The Open Source Assistive Technology Hackathon is focused on empowering participants to build skills and make real contributions to the assistive technology tools people rely on every day. Registration Information: Register here. Event Questions + Access […]
Disability Visibility Quilting Circle | April 2026
Whether you came to the Disability Visibility Quilt launch and your ideas have been percolating or you’re brand new to the project – let’s all get together and stitch together a tapestry of disabled brilliance. This quilt was one of Alice Wong’s dreams – whether your creativity manifests in writing, collages, access hacks, recipes, hosting, sewing, brainstorming, […]
It Wasn’t Meant to be Perfect: A Book Talk + Performance with Gaelynn Lea
Musician, Broadway composer, and disability advocate Gaelynn Lea is coming to the DCC with special guest Haben Girma to celebrate the release of her new memoir! It’s a love letter to every kind of body, music, and making it work. Books will be for sale by Book Passage at the event. Register here. About Gaelynn […]
Take Action: Defend Vital Healthcare Services for Californians
Let’s defend Medi-Cal, home care services, and domestic workers together. The DCC is teaming up with Senior and Disability Action for a workshop on turning your stories into power to defend vital healthcare services for Californians. First, we’ll learn about the upcoming cuts and changes and how they’ll affect our communities. Then, SDA will guide […]
Eli Clare + Ellen Samuels Book Chat
What happens when you put Eli Clare and Ellen Samuels, two disabled oracles, in conversation? Actual magic. This spring, Eli and Ellen are both releasing new books, and they’re sharing them with the DCC community! Eli’s new book, “Unfurl: Survival, Sorrows, and Dreaming,” is a queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and […]
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 […]