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SUMMARY:Disability Day of Mourning Vigil and Open Mic Mourn the Dead, Fight for the Living
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday, February 28, 2025 for the Chicago Disability Day of Mourning Vigil. Our theme for this year is Mourn the Dead, Fight for the Living.    Every year, communities across the country and around the world join together for the Disability Day of Mourning (DDOM).    The DDOM is a community vigil that honors the lives of people with disabilities killed by their families and caregivers. The disability community comes together in remembrance, to share hope for the future, and to offer support.    Date: Friday, February 28, 2025  Time: 5:00PM-7:00PM    In Person: UIC Disability Cultural Center (1007 W. Harrison Street, Room 231)    Online via Zoom: https://go.uic.edu/DDOMZoom25    Nondisabled allies, family members, and friends are welcome to join.    Event flow (What to Expect):     	Welcome & background about the Disability Day of Mourning   	Reading the names for 2024-25: people with disabilities who were killed by their caregivers, people with disabilities who have been killed by the police, and disability community members who passed away   	Time for attendees to share thoughts, reflections, poems, etc.   	Plugging in to the fight: Access Living?s organizing efforts & other ways to get involved   	This vigil is a hybrid event. It will be held on Zoom as well as in-person at the UIC Disability Cultural Center.    Covid-19 Safety and Accessibility  UIC does not require masking, but we are still masking in our spaces and at our events to make them more accessible for chronically ill / immunocompromised folks and people who live with them. If it?s accessible for you, please wear a mask! We?ll have extras on hand.    Access information:  The vigil will be held in the UIC DCC, which is on the 2nd floor and accessible by elevator. The building has men?s, women?s, and all-gender bathrooms with stalls that have grab bars but are not large. There is a large, single-user ADA restroom on the 1st floor of the building.    We will offer a separate Quiet Space for decompressing as needed.    We will have CART captions and ASL. The ASL interpreter will be on site with a dedicated camera logged into Zoom. The DCC uses fragrance-free cleaning supplies but UIC is not a fragrance-free campus. Please refrain from wearing scented products, such as scented lotion, perfume and cologne.    If you have other access requests or questions, email chicagolanddpocc@gmail.com.    This event is a collaboration between the Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition (DPOCC), the UIC Disability Cultural Center, Center for Racial and Disability Justice at Northwestern University, Access Living, the Coalition of Autistic and Neurodivergent Students (CANS), the UIC Institute on Disability and Human Development, Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), and the Autism Society of Greater Chicago. | Event post: https://ahs.uic.edu/events?page_id=13270
LOCATION:https://go.uic.edu/DDOMZoom25
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