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 […]
Let’s Flip the Script on Disability
Event Organizer: Longmore Center at The Arc San Francisco Venue: The Arc San Francisco Location: 1500 Howard Street, San Francisco + Zoom Price: Free! Event Description: The Paul K. Longmore Center at The Arc San Francisco is excited to present the inaugural Lois Curtis Lecture! We are excited to invite you to an evening of bold […]
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 […]
Quiet Reading Night + Book Swap
Beloved introvert kin, dreams come true. We’re hosting a quiet reading night at the DCC. It’s really simple – there will be abundant cozy spots, plenty of blankets, cozy beverages, and good reading lights. Bring your own book or, if you’re looking to dip into something new, we have lots of exceptional disability-centered books – […]
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 […]
Game Night: Dungeons + Dragons
The dice are polished, the snacks are nonstop, the chairs are cozy, and our dungeon masters are ready – it’s our first D&D night! We’ve got the best access-loving DMs in any world coming to run 2-hour disability-loving, one-and-done campaigns. In person, all levels are very welcome to play! Experienced D&D players, you can bring […]
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 […]
Nerding Out: Comics + Zines
We can get soooo nerdy on comics and zines! We love them. We love the way that they allow freedom of disability representation, making the invisible visible, and endless possibilities to color outside the lines. Zines and comics also give us a way to share the stories that feel unbearable – we can be seen […]
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 […]
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 […]