DisCoTec - Disability Community Technology Center

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[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

If you live in the SF Bay area, please come to this free community event!

Disability Portrait Day at @SFMOMA
Jul 27, noon-4 pm
ASL interpreters will be onsite
Masks required
https://t.co/RRcoWmuVkh

[DisCoTec - Disability Community Technology Center @DisCoTecCtr]

@adaptanita And shoutout to @Wolven for his most excellent moderating. Really a dream event for a zoom host. :D

[DisCoTec - Disability Community Technology Center @DisCoTecCtr]

We are launched!

Thank you to @adaptanita for her sharing her important stories and work!

What a fabulous night for learning about disability history from a disability justice legend.

[DisCoTec - Disability Community Technology Center @DisCoTecCtr]

Proud to host our first public event with a reading from Anita Cameron followed by audience Q&A on June 27 at 7pm EDT on Zoom. Registration can be found at: https://t.co/jJIIo4LaHz

[Anna Landre ♿️ @annalandre]

The largest cohort of pediatric amputees in history.

Meet the children who lost limbs in Gaza.

https://t.co/ozJvBfACSt

[The Diaspora Solidarities Lab @dslprojects]

Introducing Black Beyond Data (BBD), the force behind and convenor of the Who Owns Black Data Conference, happening live in Baltimore and online on March 28 & 29!

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

🎉🎂🥳To celebrate my birthday I raised over $10,000 for @RIPMedicalDebt which equals over $1,000,000 in medical debt! Let’s keep it going until the end of March!

https://t.co/MyXIEXvjuv

[Mellon Foundation @MellonFdn]

Artists nourish our economies, communities, and collective spirit.

Explore “Artists as Catalysts” at Mellon.
https://t.co/iKaJaV3mxB

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

More of this please

[DISCO Network @DISCOnetwork_]

The next DISCO Road show event is live at @NorthwesternU with Ray Fouché's HAT Lab. Join us in-person or virtually April 4, 2024 4:00pm central. More info and registration here: https://t.co/M3xt7VwKvY

[Liberal Jane @liberaljanee]

Today is International Day of People with Disabilities. For the 1 billion people in the world with disabilities, bodily autonomy is a right but not always a reality.

An inclusive & equitable world is possible, but only if we respect the rights of disabled people🧡

#IDPwD2023

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

Last night two of medical devices/equipment I rely on to live malfunctioned. I feel like a lot of disabled people like me are constantly treading water hoping things won’t get fucked up and when one thing happens a cascade of others creates utter chaos

#DisabilityPrecarity

[Autistic Self Advocacy Network @autselfadvocacy]

"Autism and most mental health disorders present differently in Black women…Because autism is looked at through such a White and male lens, people don’t recognize similar behaviors with traditionally feminine or Black interests." https://t.co/mtLVpuhMX2

[POCIT @pocintech]

Black employees at Google make $20K less on average than their white coworkers, a leaked spreadsheet obtained by the Insider reveals.

The data also show Black Googlers make less in bonuses and equity than their white colleagues.

[National Academies @theNASEM]

In a new piece for @theNAEng, @ashleyshoo and Hanna Herdegen discuss how #disabled people are often excluded from discussions on #DisabledTech, and the importance of centering disabled people through new and authentic narratives about #disability.

Read: https://t.co/2adn3I0189

[Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund @DREDF]

Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act is mandatory (and has been for 33 years). Telling people with disabilities to be polite when enforcing our rights is patronizing. #DisabilityRights