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Disability Cultural Initiative – Spring 2023

Disability ERG Interest Session

Faculty and Staff: The Disability Cultural Initiative is in the process of gauging interest in a Disability ERG to provide employees with opportunities for networking and community-building. If you are faculty or staff and are interested in learning more, please come to an interest meeting!

Details:

• Date: Tuesday, January 24th, 2023, February 28, 2023

• Time – 11 AM to 12 PM
• Location – Zoom
• This meeting will be zoom-captioned. Please reach out to disabilityculture@georgetown.edu with any accessibility requests.

Disability Studies and Disability Cultural Initiative Artist in Residency

Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker and award-winning sexuality educator with a Master’s of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Ericka’s work broke ground when she went topless showing her double mastectomy scars in public in 2016. Ericka’s voice is rooted in leading edge thought around human sexual expression as inextricable to overall human health and its intersections with race, gender, chronic illness and disability. Both radical and relatable, she continues to push well beyond the threshold of sex positivity. Ericka Hart has taught sexuality education for elementary aged youth to adults across New York City for over 10 years, including for 4 years at Columbia University’s School of Social work and the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. They are currently an adjunct faculty member at Widener University’s Center for Human Sexuality.

• January 23, 2023 at 2:00pm-3:30pm in HFSC Herman Room and Zoom: Radical Sex Positivity
• January 25, 2023 at 12:00pm-2:00pm on Zoom: Office hours
• January 26, 2023 at 2:00pm-3:30pm in HFSC Herman Room and Zoom: Decolonizing Health: Rescheduled for April 13, 2023 at 12:00-1:30pm on Zoom
• These events are wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreted, and zoom captioned. Please contact disabilityculture@georgetown.edu for any accessibility requests.

Hoya Relaxa

Students, join us as we create a rejuvenating space with a guided somatic practice lead by Dr. Jennifer Crewalk. Co-hosted by DCI and ARC. 

Details:

• Date: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023

• Time: 4 PM to 5 PM

• Location: HFSC Herman Room and Zoom
• This event is wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreted, and zoom captioned. Please contact disabilityculture@georgetown.edu for any accessibility requests.

Queer Space x DCI: Make Stim Toys

Come create stimulation/sensory toys with the DCI and queer space hosted by Dr. Amanda Philips! We will have materials to make destress balls, fidget spinners, and stimmy bracelets. Co-hosted by Queer Space, Disability Cultural Initiative, and The Maker Hub.

• Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
• Time: 4 PM to 6 PM
• Location: Arrupe Multipurpose Room
• This event is wheelchair accessible. Please contact disabilityculture@georgetown.edu for any accessibility requests.

Soil and Spirit

Soil and Spirit: Animating the Intersections of Disabled knowledges and Endangered Forests. Co-hosted by Disability Studies, Disability Cultural Initiative, Core Pathways in Climate Change, and Department of Theology and Religious Studies.

An interactive session with artist Marina Heron Tsaplina

• Date: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
• Time: 5:30 PM to 7 PM
• Location: Hybrid: Hariri tent and Zoom
• This event is wheelchair accessible and ASL interpreted. Please contact disabilityculture@georgetown.edu for any accessibility requests.

DisCO Grad

Graduates: you’re invited to participate in the first annual DISCO Grad (Disability Community Graduation Celebration). The Disability Cultural Initiative (DCI) and a student advisory committee are planning a momentous celebration of disability pride and would love for you to be a part of it.

• Graduates: Register by April 15.
• Guests: RSVP by May 1.
• Date: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
• Time: 4 PM
• Location: HFSC Great Room and Zoom
• This event is wheelchair accessible and ASL interpreted. Please contact disabilityculture@georgetown.edu for any accessibility requests.

Disability Cultural Initiative – Fall 2022

Crip Camp

Students, join the Disability Cultural Initiative and Georgetown Disability Alliance for an informal hang for students to chat, get to know one another, and get real about the disabled experience.

Details:

• Time – 7:00 to 8:00 pm
• Location – HFSC Herman Room and on Zoom
• Upcoming Dates – 10/20/22
• This event will be wheelchair accessible, hybrid, and zoom captioned. Please contact disabilityculture@georgetown.edu with any accessibility requests. We want everyone to be a part of our community.

Disability and Climate Change: A Public Archive Project Launch

Join disabled artist and activist Naomi Ortiz in conversation with Professor Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown undergraduate research assistants, and our international collaborators to celebrate the launch of our new digital archive that chronicles the wisdom and expertise of disabled activists, artists, and first responders working for climate justice.

Naomi Ortiz (they/she) is a disabled Mestize writer and visual artist living in the Arizona US/Mexico borderlands whose intersectional work focuses on disability justice, eco-justice, and relationship with place.

Sponsored by the Disability Studies Program, Georgetown Humanities Initiative, Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service, Core Pathways in Climate Change, Disability Cultural Initiative, Earth Commons, Georgetown Disability Alliance, GREEN, Theology and Religious Studies Department

Details:

• Time: 4-5:30pm ET
• Date: Monday November 7th, 2022

• Zoom captioned and ASL interpreted.

DCI x Casa Latina Zine Making Workshop

With Jennifer White-Johnson, MFA, Black and Disabled in Higher Ed, Art Activist, Designer and Educator

Details:

• Date: November 10th
• Time: 5:30pm – 7pm
• Location: Arrupe Multipurpose Room
• ASL interpreted. Wheelchair accessibile.
• Please contact disabilityculture@georgetown.edu with any accessibility requests.