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.