Disability Awareness - today, this week, and year-round

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:02:03 -0400
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While Disability Awareness Month draws to a close with Halloween - accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities matters every day.

Please join us (ADS, SDS, The Women's Center, Critical Social Justice and more) for the screening of Crip Camp, today at 3p, if you have seen it already, the discussion starts online at 5:00. Details for joining today's Crip Camp Event are linked here.

Our next UMBC Accessibility Walk happens this Friday at noon. Consider dressing up as a s/hero-with-a-disability for our trick-or-treat theme.

And speaking of celebrations, and observing the holiday accessibly and inclusively- here are tips about dressing up and preparing for the holiday - there are simple strategies for an inclusive experience, as well as avoiding costumes that perpetuate stigmatization by overlapping horror with disability. Read more here.

On the horizon for November - please join us, with Athletics' Allied Sports for their League of Dreams event on the 11th in the RAC - click here for details.

A photo of a carved, lit jack-o-lantern with a cartoonish surprised face accompanies the myUMBC post.