RadMad Disability Lab at UC Berkeley

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From the Team at RadMad Lab. Happy Thanksgiving everyone

A HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE!!! From the RadMad Team

From The Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue: Know your rights as a disabled student so that you are able to advocate for yourself. You deserve to get access to everything that there is to offer on this rich, beautiful, prestigious campus. This is crucial to making sure that you don’t slip through the next cracks. If you are comfortable, go to as many disability events as possible. https://www.dailycal.org///22/disability-higher-education/

From The Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue: The Daily Californian’s 30 Years of ADA issue looks at the varied experiences of students with disabilities and presents a broader perspective of issues people with disabilities navigate. https://www.dailycal.org//30-years-of-ada-2020-impact-iss/

From The Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue: by RadMad team member "good Audio Description provides access to the visuals without stepping on the dialogue; it allows the Blind consumer to have an experience that is as close to sighted as possible. He was critical of the mention of race being left out of AD, as in the current practice, it defaults character descriptions to white." ... https://www.dailycal.org//superfest-disability-film-festi/

From The Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue: At that time, it was really more about being the antagonist, poking the bear and changing the system, James said. It was the Civil Rights Movement; people were protesting a lot of things. https://www.dailycal.org//history-of-disability-rights-mo/

From The Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue: ‘How do we move together’ as people with mixed abilities, multiracial, multi-gendered, mixed class, across the orientation spectrum where no body/mind is left behind. https://www.dailycal.org//communities-of-care-disability-/

From The Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue: "An Autistic’s quest to be understood can involve long messages. I hear the phrase, You need to learn to summarize, so often to the point that I get anxious about putting down a single word, worried I’ll write too much - Brian Liu." https://www.dailycal.org//when-communication-excludes-aut/

From The Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue: "we dedicate this love letter to all the crips and allies we’ve had the pleasure to be in solidarity with. Katie Savin, Anna Bernick, Carlos Vasquez, Tasneem Khan, Emma Adler, Nate Tilton, Caroline Petterson, Brian Liu, Liam Will, Hari Srinivasan, Stephanie Chang, Nava Bearson and Kaylie Moropoulos: We are honored and grateful to have worked alongside such fierce advocates as you. Ben Perez, Ella Callow, Karen Nakamura, Karen Nielson, Georgina Kleege, Derek Coates and more: Your advice has been invaluable to our work, and we idolize you as crip successes in the adult world!" https://www.dailycal.org//community-memory-is-essential-t/

From Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue Even before I knew about my own autism identity, whenever I saw autism portrayed in the media, two things stayed consistent: The characters were male, and the actors portraying them were neurotypical. https://www.dailycal.org//a-call-for-authentic-neurodiver/

From Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue "Meeks and his team have expanded the use of assistive devices and equipment in the Recreational Sports Facility. While the population of students without disabilities may not be directly affected by these changes, Meeks maintains that inclusive equipment is imperative in creating a welcoming environment for students with disabilities in sports." https://www.dailycal.org//inclusive-recreation-program-di/

From Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue "Inclusivity is a term that’s usually not intertwined with sports, but some progress has been made." https://www.dailycal.org//class-is-in-session-goalball-de/

From Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue Burnt Bones and Beautiful Butterflies reads with a personal intimacy that is, at times, staggering. https://www.dailycal.org//burnt-bones-and-beautiful-butte/

From Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue Since 1998, Juan Aguilera has been making art at Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center, a nonprofit organization that serves artists with disabilities. The organization was founded in 1974 and supports more than 150 artists by providing artistic materials and guidance from professional artists, hosting gallery exhibitions and more. Though the coronavirus pandemic has forced the temporary closure of the center’s studio, that hasn’t stopped Aguilera from creating. https://www.dailycal.org//creative-growth-artist-juan-agu/

From Daily Californian’s Disability Impact Special Issue In an interview with The Daily Californian, Mather discussed her experience having cerebral palsy, or CP, her passion for poetry and her recently published book, which she hopes her readers will find themselves in. https://www.dailycal.org//in-conversation-with-jerusha-ma/