Access Desires + Affirmations = Desired ACCESSIBILITY (virtual)

Image Description: Bright colored typed letters mixed with letters made from tape, stones, twigs, dried orange slices and headphones spell out Accessibility Affirmation Workshop. Brown letters below the mixed letters say: November 5 Online and In Person, Thanks California Humanities! Three angular shapes in bright purples and hot pink sit in the bottom corners.

Access Desires + Affirmations = ACCESSIBILITY

Affirm your access desires! Please join us for a disability centered hybrid two hour virtual and in person workshop of writing, drawing, chatting, collaging and sharing your accessibility needs around “access intimacies” and ecological intimacies that also support us as ecological beings. We will use whiteboard and collage to make risograph printed access desire affirmation posters! We will open with an accessible movement to ground us and offer a short demonstration on how to use Zoom’s whiteboard. No need to use whiteboard, you can bring your own materials and collage, write, draw and chat along! Or, hang out – no need to produce anything! Everyone is welcome to speak out loud or add your accessibility words and thoughts. We will hold conversations around access intimacies and ecological intimacies to expand, support and ferment accessibility needs, words, and ways into our accessible futures. For in person participants, materials are provided and you and your devices are welcome to join in on the Zoom whiteboard too!

* “access intimacies” coined by Mia Mingus

Date: Sunday, November 5th 

Virtual Workshop Time: 11:30am to 1pm PT   I   1:30pm to 3:30 pm CT   I   2:30pm to 4:30pm ET   I  7:30pm to 9:30 pm UK  I  8:30pm to 10:30pm EU

Location: Zoom (link to be provided upon completion of registration)

Facilitators: moira williams in person and juliet johnson online.

Virtual Access Notes: ASL, whiteboard use, screen sharing, ok to be off camera, ok to use chat, ok to speak out loud, minimal instrumental music, scheduled breaks and break reminders, online and in person Access Doulas, light visual descriptions. Our event will NOT be recorded. 

Contact Information: Any further access needs or questions, please get in touch with moira at cripdecologies@gmail.com or click HERE.

ASL provided by PRO BONO ASL

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this workshop do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.