Disability Cultural Centers: Past, Present, Future
Explore the evolution of Disability Cultural Centers over the past 5 years and their impact on the future of disability services. Uncover the growth, support, and partnerships shaping the landscape. Join the discussion on disability justice within the services. Engage with diverse perspectives and insights in a welcoming environment.
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Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 5-year Review: Disability Cultural Centers & the Future of Disability Services Dani Lucchese Janelle Capwell-Giles Naty V. Rico Sav Schlauderaff
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Conference Civility Statement We ask you to join us in creating a culture that reflects Access and Inclusion and Civility and Respect this week and in all aspects of our organization.
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Access Statement Please exist in this space in ways that are most comfortable for you. You can stand up, sit down, lay down, stretch, walk around, leave the room, stim, use your electronics as needed. Please understand that everyone exists in spaces in different ways, and how someone can best engage and listen might look different than how you do. Please let us know if we need to slow down or repeat any information during this discussion. We will have a set break during this workshop but can take additional breaks if needed.
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Presentation Outline What is a Disability Cultural Center? DCC s and Disability Services DCC s Growth Over the Past 5-years Institutional Support and Campus Partnerships The Future of DCCs & Disability Justice Within Disability Services
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Introductions Names Pronouns Our Roles
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 What is a Disability Cultural Center? Mentimeter quiz: Join at menti.com code: 71274277 First DCCs came out of disability rights movements of 60's and 70's and ADA signing Currently 18 DCCs Currently 13 DCCs in progress
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 What is a Disability Cultural Center? The University of Arizona is one of the few campuses in the country to have a Disability Cultural Center! The DCC serves as a unique space for all students, faculty, staff and community members to explore and celebrate disability identity, culture and community. We offer a variety of events and programming that promote an authentic and intersectional perspective on disability. The DCC has an accessible space on the second floor of the Disability Resource Center, where everyone is welcome to join any of our events, or simply drop by if you need a quiet space to study or recharge. Some of our programming is also hosted online in a virtual setting to remain accessible for all who are unable to visit our space.
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 What is a Disability Cultural Center? We work towards embracing our disabilities and showcasing art, music, literature and other expressions of our lives and our culture created from disability experiences at-large. We aim to challenge disempowering perceptions that view disability as a deficit; something that must be cured or fixed, and instead acknowledging disability as merely another way of being. We welcome anyone who wishes to learn and engage with disability discourse, and/or find a sense of community on our campus.
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCCs and Disability Services University of Arizona has a Disability Resource Center and a Disability Cultural Center this relationship and structure has shifted over time oOther disability-related spaces at UArizona: Adaptive Athletics, Sonoran Center UCEDD, Deaf Studies major, Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, Disability Studies Initiative, Disabled Staff and Faculty Coalition, SALT Center DCC started through a student services fee grant to be housed within the Disability Resource Center in Fall 2018 DCC moved to be housed with other cultural center spaces Fall 2021 Moving beyond "compliance" oWhy are DCCs & centering disability identity, community, & activism important for students/staff/faculty/community members?
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCC's Growth 2018-2024 2018-2019 AY 2019-2020 AY 2020-2021 AY 2021-2022 AY 2022-2023 AY 2023-2024 AY 1,378 1,506 1,332 1,151 3,197 2,994 Total Students Engaged: 11,558 Numbers fluctuate dependent on factors like covid closures, re-openings, campus climate, and program/event involvements
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCC's Growth 2018-2024-2 Programs include: Ableism 101 Series, Disability Discussion, Disability Studies Reading Group, Disabled Speakers and activists, community building and wellness events Programs shift and evolve according to student and campus needs o Balance educational and training programs vs community building, student support, and outreach o Influenced by factors like: funding, campus climate, institutional demands
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCC's Growth 2018-2024-3 Initial funding from Disability Resource Center and private donors o Supported operational and structural improvements Shifted towards Student Services Fees and Institutional/Departmental Funds o Supported growth via staffing, marketting, and professional development Receive support from other Culture and Resource Centers, Disability Resource Centers, campus and community organizations and DCC Professionals Network
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCC's Growth 2018-2024-4 Sav's GA experience First GA hired at the DCC in 2019 Hired the first undergraduate student workers & hired Naty as the new Coordinator Created the ABLEISM 101 4-part workshop series Revamped the Disability Discussions model Other programming: disability reading group, coordinated events with faculty fellow, workshops & speaker events Increased collaboration with other cultural & resource centers on campus integrated more content about disability Transitioned content from in-person to virtual starting Spring 2020 DCC transitioned out from DRC to IME Increased funding request to include: coordinator, 2 GAs, and 4+ undergraduate students
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCC's Growth 2018-2024-5 Naty's Coordinator & Director experience: Organizationally moved over to the Institute of Multicultural Education from Disability Resource Center/Campus Life Secured grant funding for the 2021-2024 Academic Years and again for the 2025-2028 Academic Years Expanded DCC staff including a full-time Coordinator Introduced a DCC Embedded Counselor through the Counseling and Psychological Services
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCC's Growth 2018-2024-6 Janelle's GA experience: oExpanded Ableism 101 session duration to 90 minutes oNew role (co-current GA; Outreach GA) was created at the same time as initial onboarding oCollaborated with Career Center, Writing Center, and other campus partners to hold workshops and trainings oNavigated internal trainings and hiring experiences
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCC's Growth 2018-2024-7 Dani's GA experience: Established Queer Disabled Community Hour Began to co-facilitate semesterly Ableism 101 series and helped implement changes Continued partnerships with the Writing Center Witnessed increased student use of the space
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 DCC's Growth 2018-2024-8 Dani's Coordinator Experience: Continued growth for Queer Disabled Community Hour Helped establish additional campus collaborations with QTPOC+2S Sustained partnership with Writing Center Expaned Ableism 101 training team Assisted with the expansion of Ableism 101 to be given to the city of Tucson Assited with establishing fees for Ableism 101 series, genrating extra revenue for DCC Created undergraduate work structures
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Q&A
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Institutional Support & Campus Partners Departmental Support from Office of Diversity and Inclusion oCollaboration with the 6 Cultural and Resource Center Speech Language & Hearing Sciences, College of Education, SALT Center, Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disability, Disabled Staff and Faculty Coalition, etc Counseling and Psychological Services - DCC Embedded Counselor
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Large Group Discussion 1. Do you have a disability cultural center on your campus? Or disability cultural focused student groups? 2. Does your campus provide programming and support around disability culture & identity 3. What feedback have you heard from students? What additional resources and supports are they needing?
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 The Future of DCCs & Disability Justice Within Disability Services What is Disability Justice? (10 Principles can be accessed in the AHEAD app) What is the role of DJ for disability services offices & for disability cultural centers? What can be applied within institutions? What should the relationship between DRC & DCC look like?
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 The Future of DCCs & Disability Justice Within Disability Services INTERSECTIONALITY We do not live single issue lives Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world invalid. LEADERSHIP OF THOSE MOST IMPACTED We are led by those who most know these systems. Aurora Levins Morales ANTI-CAPITALIST POLITIC In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds. COMMITMENT TO CROSS-MOVEMENT ORGANIZING Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance. RECOGNIZING WHOLENESS People have inherent worth outside of commodity relations and capitalist notions of productivity. Each person is full of history and life experience.
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 The Future of DCCs & Disability Justice Within Disability Services SUSTAINABILITY We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term. Our embodied experiences guide us toward ongoing justice and liberation. COMMITMENT TO CROSS-DISABILITY SOLIDARITY We honor the insights and participation of all of our community members, knowing that isolation undermines collective liberation. INTERDEPENDENCE We meet each others needs as we build toward liberation, knowing that state solutions inevitably extend into further control over lives. COLLECTIVE ACCESS As brown, black and queer-bodied disabled people we bring flexibility and creative nuance that go beyond able-bodied/minded normativity, to be in community with each other. COLLECTIVE LIBERATION No body or mind can be left behind only moving together can we accomplish the revolution we require.
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Action Plans Instructions: Discuss the ACTION PLANNING ACTIVITY questions. This last set of questions aims to encourage participants to verbalize or make their commitments known to each other as a way to practice what was learned in this session, create an actionable plan, and hold each other accountable. Please answer these in your groups and write your own responses here to keep record of what was discussed and hold yourself accountable. You can bounce off ideas from each other to get the conversation flowing. Please find handout through the App or one of us can give you a paper copy
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Closing Thoughts & Questions
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Presenter Information Naty Rico, she/hers Dani Lucchese, They/Them Coordinator Director Disability Cultural Center Disability Cultural Center DLucchese531@arizona.edu Naty@arizona.edu
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Presenter Information Janelle Capwell-Giles Sav Schlauderaff, Ph.D. She/They They/them Disability Resource Center Disability Resource Center janellecapwell@arizona.edu sschlauderaff@arizona.edu
Baltimore, Maryland July 15-19, 2024 Thank you for attending!
