About the Project
Disability Cultural Centers (DCCs), much like other identity-based student centers on college campuses, “aim to develop pride in disability identity and share disability culture with the rest of the campus community” (Elmore et al., 2018). These centers emphasize disability as a sociopolitical identity that intersects with and is informed by race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and size. This framing of disability contends with issues of power and systemic oppression in meaningful ways, and it provides disabled students with the opportunity to connect with one another to celebrate disability culture and be in community with one another. In this fellowship, students had the opportunity to capture these student movements through conducting oral history interviews, collecting and digitizing artifacts from DCC-affiliated student organizers and staff across the U.S., and learning to do digital access work such as writing alt-text and making accessible documents. Fellows' work culminated in the creation of an open-access community archive of Disability Cultural Centers.
Mentor
Cazembe Kennedy
Fellows
Katie Sullivan; Mackenzie Zamora
Project
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