DCC – In Our Own Words: Going Home: Navigating Family and Disability
November 18, 2019
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location
Disability Cultural Center, 235 Behavioral Science Building, 1007 W. Harrison St.
Address
Chicago, IL 60607
Cost
Free
Calendar
Download iCal FileDates: begins September 9th and run every Monday through November 18th
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pmpm
Location: DCC, BSB Room 235
Join the DCC for a series of informal conversations on a range of topics related to disability, culture, and identity. Through these conversations, we aim to foster spaces for intentional, open, and respectful dialogue while continuing to further critical understandings of disability. Facilitators will have a topic and guiding questions. Come reflect, process and learn with us! For info on how to join remotely email dcc@uic.edu
The following topics will be discussed:
Sept 9th - What’s in a Word: Ableism in Everyday Language
Sept 16th - Made You Look: The Realities of Staring
Sept 23rd - I’m Not Like Them: Distancing Ourselves from Disability
Sept 30th - Care: Giving and Receiving
Oct 7th - Advocacy, Independence and Interdependence
Oct 14th - Decolonizing Disability: Indigenous Perspectives
Oct 21st - Food Talk: When Food and Accessibility Come Together
Oct 28th - Deaf and Disability Culture in Popular Media
Nov 4th - What’s Expected?
Nov 11th - Relationships: Forced Intimacy and Access Intimacy
Nov 18th - Going Home: Navigating Family and Disability
Remote access is available
Date posted
Aug 29, 2019
Date updated
Oct 4, 2019