Cafe Crip | Disabled Parenting
Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. This month’s theme is Disabled Parenting. Disabled people make incredible parents – our capacity for empathy, creative solutions, and patience is unparalleled. Our children know in their bones that there are billions of ways to live, care, and love. Despite […]
BIPOC Creatives | August 2026
Join Alex Locust and Shaina Ghuraya in their co-hosted space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to explore creativity and process together. You can share your thoughts and feelings, bounce around ideas, hang back and simply enjoy time in community, or basically whatever fills your beautiful cup. August’s theme is Imagining Better Futures. We’ll […]
Queerness of Birds
It’s the event we didn’t know we needed, but we do so deeply. We, as a community, need to learn about queer and crip ecology through our beautiful, freaky, fine-feathered friends: birds. Queer ecologist, multimedia storyteller, and bird lover, Yarrow Koning is coming to the DCC’s virtual space to fill our brains and souls with […]
Crip Reads Book Club
Event Organizer: Los Angeles Spoonie Collective Location: Virtual Price: Free! Event Description: Join the Los Angeles Spoonie Collective for our Crip Reads Book Club in August as we discuss Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey. Registration Information: Register here. Event Questions + Access Requests: Email la.spooniecollective@gmail.com Deadline for Access Requests: July 23, 2026
Cafe Crip | Disability Pride + the ADA
Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. For Disability Pride Month, we’re chatting about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Disability Pride. For two such positive-seeming things, it’s complicated! Let’s dig into who benefits from the ADA and Disability Pride, and who does it leave behind? […]
BIPOC Creatives | Collaboration
Join Alex Locust and Shaina Ghuraya in their co-hosted space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to explore creativity and process together. You can share your thoughts and feelings, bounce around ideas, hang back and simply enjoy time in community, or basically whatever fills your beautiful cup. This month’s theme is Collaboration. We’ll dig […]
Filmmaking 101 | How to Direct a Short
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? We […]
Virtual Anniversary Party
Family! We’re celebrating our TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! What is time? It both feels like our Disability Culture is Here virtual launch was yesterday, AND the community runs so deep that we can’t believe we just started building two years ago. Please join us for a virtual celebration of this community, the connections we’ve built over the […]
Cafe Crip: Video Games
Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. Our beloved facilitator, Bianca Laureano, is taking the month off, and the incredible Shaina Ghuraya is in charge! And you know what Shaina wants to talk about? VIDEO GAMES. The discussion will wind its way through the cozy joys of […]
Care Circle: Anxious Queers | June 2026
Our hearts are racing, our sleep is sucking, our tears are flowing, our tempers are raw, and the day-to-day is brutal. We got you. The DCC is thrilled to welcome T.S. Banks as the new facilitator of our Anxious Queers Care Circle. Even when supportive folks surround us, it hits differently and feels safer when we’re […]