Vision:
To provide a sense of community, education, and support using the wisdom and knowledge of disability justice. Our space is welcoming, inclusive, and embracing of disabled individuals, our allies and community partners on campus, in Tucson, AZ, and across the nation.
Values:
Anti - Ableism: Our space is committed to addressing ableism in all contexts - structural, lateral, systemic and internalized.
Disability Justice & Intersectionality: Our space is committed to organizing and implementing programs and creating a space that centers multiply marginalized experiences and oppression as informed by disability justice principles.
Community Building and Sense of Belonging: Our space seeks to cultivate, establish and sustain disability community and foster a sense of belonging on campus.
Celebrating Disability Pride and Culture: Our space strives to cultivate and sustain a space where disability pride and culture can flourish and be explored individually and collectively.
Wellness, Sustainability and Self Care: Our space strives to create a space where wellness, sustainability and self/community care are at the forefront of our practices.
Accessibility: Our space strives to promote and maintain accessible programs, events and spaces that center the needs of our communities.
Critiquing Harmful Disability Discourse: Our space aims to move away from harmful discourses perpetuated both medically and systemically. The DCC acknowledges how systems, institutions, and environments attribute to disablement.
Education and empowerment: Our space is committed to education around disability, identity and culture and empowering disabled individuals to see disability as an identity and culture, instead of a deficit framework.