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Oct 7 2019

In Our Own Words: DCC Discussions – Advocacy, Independence, and Interdependence

October 7, 2019

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

On a navy blue background, several light blue, pink, and orange abstract shapes are overlaid. The text of the flyer reads: In Our Own Words: DCC Discussions, Fall 2019, Mondays 12PM - 1PM, BSB Room 235, 1007 W. Harrison St. Discussion Topics: 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. Contact dcc@uic.edu for any access needs.
On a navy blue background, several light blue, pink, and orange abstract shapes are overlaid. The text of the flyer reads: In Our Own Words: DCC Discussions, Fall 2019, Mondays 12PM - 1PM, BSB Room 235, 1007 W. Harrison St. Discussion Topics: 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. Contact dcc@uic.edu for any access needs.

Location

Disability Cultural Center, 235 BSB

Address

1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607

Calendar

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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 any access needs or 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

 

Contact

Disability Cultural Center
(312) 355-7050
dcc@uic.edu

Date posted

Sep 5, 2019

Date updated

Sep 26, 2019