Celebrating Multicultural Disability Pride through Storytelling
TAP/IDHD/LEND Webinar Series
September 30, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM America/Chicago
Cost
FREE
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Download iCal FileChicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition co-founder Timotheus “T.J.” Gordon, Jr., will offer tips on how people with disabilities and allies can share multicultural aspects of disability culture through storytelling on digital media. He will also show examples of how he uses his blog and social media campaign, The Black Autist, along with his digital projects with Chicagoland DPOCC and the Institute on Disability and Human Development, to discuss intersections of race, disability, and neurodiversity.
Date posted
Sep 8, 2026
Date updated
Sep 8, 2026
Speakers
Timotheus (TJ) Gordon Jr | Research Associate II | IDHD/Chicagoland DPOCC
Timotheus “T.J.” Gordon Jr., MFA, MS, is a research associate at the Institute on Disability and Human Development at University of Illinois Chicago. Gordon uses his passion for self-advocacy, racial equity, disability culture, and autism acceptance to create webinars, training sessions, and publications on autism and race, inclusion in communities of color, exploration of sexuality in the disability community, coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health emergency services, and more. He is also a co-founder of Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition (Chicagoland DPOCC), which is supported by the Institute on Disability and Human Development. Chicagoland DPOCC is a group of disabled people of color in the Chicagoland area that promotes disability pride, self-advocacy, and inclusion in communities of color. In addition to his self-advocacy work, Gordon has written essays and reviews on disability and race. His writings and cultural insights appear in the Disability Studies Review, the “All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism” anthology, "Code of the Freaks" documentary, and ADA 30 in Color.