https://www.facebook.com/UW.D.Center/
Weekly Events:
ASL Club. Every Wednesday 3:30 PM – 5 PM
ASL Club is a space for Deaf, HOH and ASL-speaking folks to practice ASL and learn about Deaf culture. No registration required, just show up.
Mad Campus Every Thursday starting 2/4/2016. 5:30 PM- 7 PM
Mad Campus is a peer based group for students who identify as being mad/ mentally ill/ Having the Weird Brains/ neurodiverse, or some or all of the above. You don't need a doctor's note and you don't need to have an official diagnosis, you just have to be interested in hanging out with other people who have been or felt nuts to build community, share resources and talk about it.
Low Stim Nap and Snack. Every Wednesday starting 1/27/2016. Noon to 1 PM
Do you want a place to chill with low lighting, take a power nap or drink a beverage? Come over once a week and power nap, snack and be quiet together.
Special Events:
Tuesday, February 16, 4 PM: Self Advocacy Workshop, AKA, how to get your professors to listen about your disability accommodations!
What should you say to professors about your accommodations? Do you have to disclose your disability to you professor? What about to your peers and classmates?
This workshop will answer these questions and more to help students with disabilities advocate for themselves in the classroom and in social settings. We will focus on helping students craft an accommodations "elevator speech" to use with professors to clarify what accommodations you have and what this will mean for their class. In addition, we will also talk briefly about advocating for yourself in social circles.
Facillitator Bios:
Kiana Parker currently works at Seattle University as an Alternative Media Coordinator in Disabilities Services. Kiana received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and History in 2005 from the University of Washington and is currently involved in multiple projects to improve the accessibility of public transit In the city of Seattle.
Melissa Ka’iulani Pico currently works as a Learning Specialist with Learning Assistance Programs at Seattle University. Her background is in Social Work (MSW from UW) and Disability Studies, and she has focused her work on helping individuals and families build their navigational capital.
Thursday, February 18: Leroy Moore film screening and workshop!
UPDATE: This will be just one event, starting 7:00pm
Location: The D Center, Mary Gates Hall 024
https://www.facebook.com/events/514695158702908/
Where is Hope: A Firm on Police Brutality Against People With Disabilities
Leroy Moore is a Leroy Moore is a Black writer, artist, hip-hop\music lover, community activist and feminist with a physical disability. He is one of the founding members of the National Black Disability Coalition. He is also is the founder of Krip Hop Nation, an international network of hiphop artists with disabilities. His first book, The Black Kripple Delivers Poetry and Lyrics, just dropped. He is also a co-founder of Sins Invalid.
Thursday, February 25, 3:00 PM, Slumber Party Self-Care/Love Workshop with Lyric Seal!
"Slumber Party" is a workshop that is exactly what it sounds like. Come get comfy and cozy with queer porn star, advice columnist, and disability justice activist Lyric Seal! Based on the advice column of the same name, which launched on crashpadseries.com in 2014, with Slumber Party, Lyric decentralizes the role of the sage, the expert, the advice giver to create a space for all bodies to figure out how to get our needs met around love, sex and relationships of all kinds. We will be doing some body grounding and meditation, viewing a short erotic film, letting ourselves ask the questions our hearts ask quietly, and collaborating on both ground rules for answering ethically and lovingly, and on the answers themselves. Low impact and low pressure, but with high sweetness and high reward should you choose to come.