DCC Community Lounge
DCC Community Lounge (BSB 235)
Come hang out and meet other people! The DCC Community Lounge space is a more interactive space where chatting is fine and welcome. (We also have a Quiet Space.)
DCC Community Lounge Hours
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| Monday | 10:00am – 04:30pm | The Community Lounge is open! |
| Tuesday | 10:00am – 04:30pm | The Community Lounge is open! |
| Wednesday | 10:00am – 04:30pm | The Community Lounge is open! |
| Thursday | 10:00am – 04:30pm | The Community Lounge is open! |
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| Friday | 09:00am – 04:30pm | Contact us at dcc@uic.edu! |
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DCC Community Lounge Accessibility Features
We have a mix of furnishings: a pleather couch, a beanbag chair, fabric easy chairs, shelving, a computer desk, and a table.
Other accessibility features that we have in our space include:
- Clear masks
- Adjustable lighting
- Ear plugs
- Memory foam orthopedic seat cushions
- Lumbar pillows
- Weighted blanket
- Height-adjustable reading stand
- Foam rollers
- Fidget toys
Know Before You Go: Images of Our Lounge
Disability Arts and Culture in the DCC Lounge!
Our Lounge has a collection of artwork from disabled artists and other ways to celebrate disability culture.
Kelp Help
Collaboration between Sins Invalid and Sandie Yi
Kelp Help, 2021
Felt
Kelp Help was mailed out to 200 participants in 2021 with this statement:
“This is a six foot-long kelp, here to help, produced by crip hands during the pandemic. You can use it to measure social distance. You can wrap it around your body. You can dance with it and sing to it. You can turn it into a bracelet, a necklace, a crown, or a sling, or cut the kelp into shapes that make you feel home.”
Kelp is proof that homes can die like people do. What once sheltered fish, fed aquatic mammals and humans, was cherished for its unbroken connection to ancestors of every variety, has vanished from seas all over the world.
The practice of kelp farming, kept alive through indigenous practices of cultivation and millennia of respectful relations, is now exploited for profit by white growers.
But this healing plant will not be lost. You are witnessing a reminder of kelp’s power, and the power of all things that grow. You are witnessing kelp wisdom, superkelp, kelp as it once was and as it will be once more.
By taking part in the kelp experience, we resist the trolling hand of capitalism, affirming our participation in the future, rooting down deep, and providing for communities as large and complex as the ocean.
Take pictures of yourself with our kelp, and post to social media with the hashtags
#SinsInvalid, #KelpHelp, #CripCouture, and #2GreatFingers !
Parade Posters
Disability Pride Parade Poster
Large poster with paint and glitter glue
Poster 2 upper right
Disability Pride Parade Poster
Large poster with paint
Poster 3 Bottom Left
Disability Pride Parade Poster
Large poster board and cut out letters
Poster 4 Bottom right
Disability Pride Parade Poster
Large poster with paint and glitter glue
Nothing About Us Without Us
Nothing About Us Without Us
The Future is Mutual Aid
Molly Costello
The Future is Mutual Aid, 2020
Giclee archival print
Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom
Micah Bazant for Sins Invalid
Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom Commemorative Poster, 2016
This poster was designed by Micah Bazant for Sins Invalid’s 2016 performance, marking the group’s decade of disability justice based art and culture. Sins Invalid was formed in 2005 by a group of disabled people of color and queer disabled artists including, Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, Stacey Milbern, Leroy F. Moore Jr, Eli Clare, and Sebastian Margaret.
Autistic Joy Manifesto
Jen White Johnson
Autistic Joy Manifesto, 2018
Create More Anti Ableist Spaces
Jen White Johnson
Create More Anti Ableist Spaces, 2021
Black Disabled Lives Matter
Jen White Johnson
Black Disabled Lives Matter, 2020