Welcome!

The Disability Cultural Center offers public programs, discussion series, arts-based workshops, and one-on-one support — as we work to engage an understanding of disability issues as social justice issues, and disability as a site for identity, community, and culture.

Our Center is for everyone. We welcome students, staff, faculty, community members; we welcome Disabled, Deaf, Sick, and Mad people; nondisabled allies/accomplices; people with conditions who may or may not identify as disabled; and people who are thinking through their relationship to disability identity. We’re so glad you’re here.

We recognize that the Disability Cultural Center, housed in UIC’s Behavioral Sciences Building, inhabits spaces built on the occupied original homelands of the Council of Three Fires: The Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Odawa Nations; and other Nations such as the Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Miami, and many other Indigenous Peoples. This Center, within an academic institution, must work towards a relationship of support and healing with Native communities. We honor those who call this land home.

[Photo above]: A handpainted mural in the Disability Cultural Center lounge that is a large blue circle with the words “you are not alone” and some birds. It’s been written on by various visitors to the center and has a border of fairy lights. Next to the mural is a lamp and a whiteboard with: “Welcome to the Disability Cultural Center! We’re glad you’re here,” and information about the space. Above the whiteboard is a pennant with fabric flags showing a cross-disability solidarity logo and Harriet Tubman.

Broken elevator? Inaccessible app? Report accessibility issues to UIC with the Accessibility Reporting Form!

This form will alert the ADA Coordinator of these issues in order to address them, and it also creates a centralized record of accessibility issues for future advocacy.

Apr 4 2025

Community Care Cohort Info Session

Friday, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Zoom
Apr 8 2025

All About Jobs: DCC Alumni Panel

Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm
BSB 231 & on Zoom
Apr 10 2025

Ahead of the Curve: Screening and Discussion

Thursday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
1700 SSB & Zoom
Apr 11 2025

DS Working Group: River Sands, "Cripistemology, Disability Art, and Knitting as Resistance"

Friday, 1:30 pm–2:30 pm
On Zoom