Incongruent Access With Bri Beck and Matt Bodett
Date / Time
February 11, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Categories
From the facilitators: We are Bri Beck and Matt Bodett, both disabled people and professionals navigating our disability identity and individual access needs in a variety of settings, just like many of you. We have proposed this gathering based on our individual challenges of self-disclosure and accessibility, but also the challenges of meeting our own needs while supporting fellow disabled people when our access needs become incongruent with one another.
We believe that as a disability community, we are ready for a dynamic conversation that goes beyond individual accessibility, and which opens a dialogue which acknowledges the inherent tensions and challenges of creating fully safe and accessible cross-disability spaces and relationships.
If you personally resonate with this and would like to participate in this dialogue, we invite you to join us for an important community conversation.
We will be centering disability community experience, but this event is open to everyone.
COVID safety information: UIC does not require masking, but we are still masking in our spaces as an accessibility measure for chronically ill/immunocompromised people. Please wear a mask if it’s accessible to you. We’ll have extras on hand. People may be sipping/eating and then replacing their masks.
Access information: CART (live captions) will be provided. The Disability Cultural Center is located on the second floor, which is accessible by elevator. We use fragrance-free products in the center, but UIC is not a fragrance-free campus. To maintain a low-fragrance environment, please refrain from wearing scents to Disability Cultural Center events.
Please get in touch with any questions or to make access requests (like ASL, for example) at dcc@uic.edu or 312-355-7050.
For more information, email dcc@uic.edu.