Disability: Identity, Culture, and Education
About
Disability: Identity, Culture, and Education (DICE) is a student led disability justice collective at the University of Maryland. We strive to promote disability justice by building a community and providing opportunities for advocacy to create change on campus.
Members of this group will get together to learn about the lives and history of disabled peoples so often erased by history. These discussions will touch on topics such as disability identity, culture, and intersectionality. Our goal with education is to hold space for the voices and work of disability advocates.
Members of this group will also participate in an online and in-person community. Within this community, we hold space to acknowledge the role of ableism in society, provide resources for disabled students, and create connections with the broader disabled community.
Finally, members will have the opportunity to promote social change through events. These events will promote disability inclusion within campus by encouraging university wide discussions of disability, strengthening faculty mindfulness, and normalizing “disability”.
DICE strives to work with other groups on campus to promote diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality. We believe that inclusion of all people should be representative of all people, so we will constantly strive to acknowledge the different ways disability is experienced through race/ethnicity/culture, gender, class, age, and religion.
Most importantly, every member can choose how they would like to engage with the space and resources DICE provides!
If you are joining our GroupMe to promote research or a paper on disability and are looking for disabled students to answer questions on disability, please email dice.umd@gmail.com. After we approve of your message, we will put it in the Research Opportunities chat. If any one answers or emails you, feel free to use those responses. If these are posted in any other channel/personal DMs or you do it without permission, you will be automatically kicked/blocked from the discord severor GroupMe. This is a safe space for disabled students at UMD.