Schedule/What to Expect:
4:00 pm Doors Open
4:30 pm Welcome and Announcements
5:00 pm Showcase
Throughout: Food! Exhibitors! And more!
7:30 pm Event ends/doors close [4/6]
ASL & captioning will be provided for the showcase portion. A room will be available for a quiet, cool-off space! To protect immunocompromised people in our community, please wear a mask indoors. We’ll have extras on hand! Accessibility requests, questions, and more can be sent to [email protected]. [5/6]
This event is brought to you by Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition, Access Living, The Institute on Disability and Human Development at UIC, UIC Disability Cultural Center, Center for Racial and Disability Justice, UIC Black Studies, UIC Black Cultural Center, and UIC CCSPD. [6/6]
The event will feature performances from DJ Matt, Double AA, Cherlnell Lane, Jada Thompson, Victoria Djembe, & Ms. Mamas. Food will be catered from Cook It Mama Café. And, we'll have tables where you can meet people from Black-owned & disability-owned/friendly organizations and businesses. [2/6]
We want to make Juneteenth a fun and accessible experience for everyone, including disabled, neurodivergent, and Deaf people in the African Diaspora. There will be food, performances, exhibitors, and more!
More on performers, access, volunteering, and exhibiting coming soon! [2/2]
If you’re a Black and/or disability-owned/friendly business or organization and would like to be an exhibitor, sign up at: tinyurl.com/Juneteenth-E....
Also, if you are interested in volunteering to help run many aspects of Accessible Juneteenth, sign up at: tinyurl.com/AccessibleJu... [3/6]
Voting rights are not only about access to the ballot. They are about access to power. Read our new brief on "Political Disablement" by Dr. Kate Caldwell, on how formal rights can remain while racialized disabled communities' collective political power is weakened.
Read: tinyurl.com/Political-Di...
SAVE THE DATE for the 6th annual Accessible Juneteenth! 🎉
Join us, UIC Disability Cultural Center, and @chidpocc.bsky.social to celebrate the Black disability community! [1/2]
📅 Tuesday, June 16, 4-7:30pm
📍 Access Living, 115 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
Chicagoland Accessible Juneteenth is NEXT WEEK! Join us for a celebration of the Black disability community at a fun & accessible, family friendly event! Learn more in this thread. [1/6]
📅 Tuesday, June 16, 4 PM
📍 Access Living, 115 W Chicago Ave
More: tinyurl.com/Accessible-J...
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Medicaid work requirements were always going to be cruel. Then, the White House intervened (likely) and made the definition of who can be exempt based on disabilities/health much stricter. This is going to kill people. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
Center for Racial and Disability Justice
"It’s hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point."
