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 […]
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 […]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Book Release
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is releasing a new book of poetry “The Way Disabled People Love Each Other.” It’s a fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other, in all our complexity. We’re thrilled to welcome Leah, in person, to celebrate! They will do a reading from the book with an opening […]
Open Mic: March 2026
Y’all! It’s another open mic night! Storytellers, musicians, poets, and performers – come share your work with the most supportive and joyful community around. We’ll open the virtual sign-up sheet about an hour before the event – it’ll be first-come, first-served. Whether you’re performing and watching cozy from home or joining the party in San […]
Disabled Parenting Panel
Disabled people make incredible parents. Yeah, it’s a blanket statement, but it’s a cozy blanket because it’s true. It doesn’t matter if the relationship is biological, foster, adoptive, or chosen; we are uniquely prepared to meet our children as whole people from day one. It’s that magical affirmation and unconditional love that we give freely […]
Lunar New Year Party
We’re so excited to host our first Lunar New Year party, made possible by Alice Wong and the Disability Visibility Project. The DCC would love to welcome you to visit with your chosen family, honor the ancestors, and, of course, eat plenty of delicious dumplings. Let’s welcome the Year of the Horse together, with all […]
Love Birds: Mask-erade Ball
Swans, cranes, scarlet macaws, and puffins mate for life – they’re in it for good, just like us. This community is here forever – when times are hard AF (like right now) and when we have joys and victories – it’s always going to be us, together. We’re celebrating y’all with Love Birds Mask-erade Ball. It’ll be […]
Emotions in Movement
Whether your motion is internal or external, small gestures or full-bodied, your way of moving is welcome. This is a space to listen inwardly to how you’re feeling in this moment. No dance experience is required – just you, exactly as you are. Register here.
Pleasure Chat | February 2026
Oooooooh. Y’all, it’s going to be a steamy one. Our bodies and our pleasure are magnificent, complicated, fluid, and so beautiful. Sex and pleasure educators (and enthusiasts!), Robin Wilson-Beattie and Laura Millar, are in it firsthand and ready to have a scintillating, open, and loving conversation. We’ll talk about finding pockets of pleasure in the […]