Disability Cultural Center at Syracuse University

[image description: An African woman using a wheelchair smiles broadly. Text says: A long way to go: Inclusion of Women with Disabilities in African Gender-Based Policies. ]

Great job Cameron Wells!

Great job to all involved!

Happy Native American Heritage day!

CC. This woman is so funny. She is a recovering addict and has some psychiatric disabilities. She talks openly and honestly about having anxiety and it is very relatable! Check out her page for more.

https://calendar.syracuse.edu//tennity-ice-skating-pavili/

https://lernercenter.syr.edu/2020/10/20/rb-35/

https://news.syr.edu//melanie-domanico-uses-her-personal-/ YES MELANIE!!!! Great job.

https://news.syr.edu//college-of-law-dean-craig-m-boise-j/ 'College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise has been appointed to a 10-member advisory council that will govern the newly formed Legal Education Police Practices Consortium, created by the American Bar Association (ABA) in collaboration with law schools across the country. As a member of the advisory council, Dean Boise will help lead Consortium efforts to leverage expertise across the ABA and among collaborating law schools to develop projects that promote better police practices throughout the United States. To date, 52 law schoolsincluding the College of Lawhave agreed to participate in the Consortium for the next five years.'

https://news.syr.edu//university-celebrates-international/ 'Wednesday, Oct. 21, is International Pronouns Day, a global initiative established in 2018 that seeks to make respecting, sharing and educating about personal pronouns a common occurrence. For the third consecutive year, the University’s Pronoun, Gender, Preferred Name Advisory Council (PGPNAC), with assistance from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center, is hosting activities that educate about affirmative pronoun usage and celebrate the multiple and intersecting identities of people within the University community.'

https://news.syr.edu//hillel-stop-bias-partner-for-pilot-/ 'Working collectively to address concerns raised by Jewish students last spring, Syracuse Hillel and the STOP Bias program have partnered to develop an anti-Semitism education and prevention training that will be piloted this fall with undergraduate students. The training is part of a larger effort being developed by members of Hendricks Chapel, the Division of Enrollment and the Student Experience and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to educate the campus community about and raise awareness of the impact of anti-Semitism.'

https://wolfwolfensberger.com/wolf-wolfensberger/biography Learn about Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, a German immigrant to the U.S. (after WW II) who was instrumental in writing important disability studies books about "mental retardation" (as it was then called) and deinstitutionalization. Dr. Wolfensberger was a professor at Syracuse University.

https://petroleusesletter.wordpress.com//intellectual-dis/ Read about the history of intellectual disability in the U.S., and how prisons have replaced state "schools" and institutions for ID people. How can we change this? By DCC Coordinator Kate.

https://news.syr.edu//support-in-times-of-grief-and-mourn/

https://petroleusesletter.wordpress.com//a-mineral-hot-sp/ Native Alaskans and others in the early 20th C. were shipped from Alaska to Morningside Hospital in Portland, Oregon, often never seeing their families again, after being labeled "insane" or an "idiot" by a judge. Dr. Frederick Leland Goddard fought to change these practices and create a humane hospital for psychiatrically disabled people in Alaska where they would not be incarcerated for their entire lives, but treated and given access to a local mineral hot springs, which he believed would be soothing and therapeutic. This local hot springs was on Native American land, so it is likely he really did not have a right to it. Read more about this disability history, written by DCC Coordinator Kate.

https://calendar.syracuse.edu//family-weekend-2020-conver/ Tomorrow for Family Weekend! Learn about the Cultural Centers. We will be there!