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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Disability Visibility Collective Quilt
Alice Wong saw disabled folks as creative geniuses. Whether our creativity manifests in writing, collages, access hacks, recipes, hosting, sewing, brainstorming, speaking, or the complex art of living, Alice saw it all and wanted to share it with the world. When we met with Alice in July of 2025, she shared a dream of a […]
Art Opening: Meeting Points
We’re getting new art at the DCC! Join us for an art opening and celebration of “Meeting Points,” an exhibit featuring tactile photomontages by San Francisco-based disability access artist Rae Lanzerotti. In their words, “My tactile collages exaggerate and transform ways of seeing with texture, shape, and line. On some, I’ve added hidden elements. The […]
Superfest Submissions Committee Info Session
Hey Superfest fans! Do you want to help shape this year’s festival? You could join our Community Submissions Committee, facilitated by filmmaker Shaina Ghuraya! With so many films still released that promote ableism and tired stereotypes, this is an opportunity to change the conversation and determine what makes disability representation good. We’ll meet weekly starting […]
Care Work as Mutual Aid
We are our greatest strength and, in these times, our means of survival. Mutual aid, as a practice, maps our personal and collective abundances with our needs and creates unbreakable networks of care. Bringing back our Care Work series, we are joined by Alan Pelaez Lopez, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Tiezst “Tie” Taylor to discuss […]