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| | SAVOR Prairie Grass' honor, Aviary reservations, 4/20 events 2024-04-14 - Congrats!: Northbrook restaurant Prairie Grass Cafe was honored for its Sensory Friendly Hour program at the 18th Annual Disability Matters North America Awards held in Milwaukee on April 4. Victoria's Secret & Co., Walt Disney Imagineering, ...
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| | Report from National LGBTQ+ Women's Community Survey includes high rates of disability, intimate partner violence 2023-10-18 --From a press release - LOS ANGELES, October 12—Today, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, in partnership with Justice Work and 120 partner organizations, released the first full report from the largest and most comprehensive survey on LGBTQ+ women who partner with ...
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| | WORLD Dutch vote, landmark ruling, French teen, UK items 2023-01-22 - Dutch senators voted 56-15 in favor of including an explicit ban on discrimination on the grounds of disability or sexual orientation in the constitution, DutchNews.nl reported. This development clears the way for the constitution to be ...
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| | ART Chicago artist part of German exhibit 'Queering the Crip' 2022-09-25 - "Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer"—called the first international exhibit exploring the multiple historical, cultural and political intersections of queerness and disability—will take place through Jan. 30, 2023 at Berlin's ...
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| | Lightfoot, office launch new disability employment center 2022-07-27 -- From a press release - CHICAGO - Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) today announced the launch of a new MOPD Career Center. The MOPD Career Center, 2102 W. Ogden Ave., will assist people ...
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| | PASSAGES Playwright/disability-rights activist Susan Nussbaum dies 2022-04-30 - Susan Nussbauma Chicago playwright, novelist and longtime disability-rights activistdied April 28 at age 68. Nussbaum won the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Social Engaging Fiction for her novel Good Kings Bad ...
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| | DANCE 'Wired,' focusing on barbed wire, to premiere at MCA on May 5-8 2022-04-14 - The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) will showcase the world premiere of Wired on May 5-8. Internationally recognized disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light will return to the stage to premiere its latest work. The work ...
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| | Disability Culture Leadership Initiative launches online hub with Chicago artists
2021-01-15 --From a 3Arts press release - CHICAGO, IL (Jan. 15, 2021) 3Arts, the Chicago-based nonprofit grantmaking organization, announced today the launch of the Disability Culture Leadership Initiative (DCLI), featuring a new online platform created to elevate ...
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| | LGBT HISTORY: The Intersection Of LGBTQ History And Disability 2020-10-29 - Disabled people have long been hidden from history, and unsurprisingly, disabled LGBTQ historical figures too have been hidden. The LGBTQ community itself has been slow to address disability as an issue, yet some of the most ...
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| | ADA 25 Advancing Leadership seeking applicants 2020-08-21 - ADA 25 Advancing Leadershipthe first program in the nation with a vision of people with disabilities leading with power and influence for full participation and equal opportunity in the Chicago regionis now accepting applications for its ...
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| | Center for Disability and Elder Law launches 'Proud to Thrive' 2019-11-30 - The Center of Disability and Elder Law (CDEL) announced its "Proud to Thrive" program at an "LGBT Elder Cultural Responsiveness and Advance Directive Training for Legal Professionals" event Nov. 20 at Clark Hill PLC's Chicago headquarters. ...
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| | CDEL starts program for LGBT elders 2019-11-13 - The Center for Disability & Elder Law (CDEL) has announced the launch of Proud to Thrivea program that provides legal resources for low-income LGBT elders throughout Cook County at mobile legal clinics and advance directive workshops. ...
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| | PASSAGES Disability rights advocate Bristo passes away 2019-09-11 - Chicagoan Marca Bristo, who was at the forefront of numerous causes relating to disability rights, passed away Sept. 8. She was 66. Bristo was founder of the advocacy Access Living, which she began in 1980, a ...
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| | Disability parade highlights representation, social justice 2019-07-23 - The 16th annual Disability Pride Parade was held July 20 in the Loop. The heat did not stop the celebration, and the parade took off on the corner of Plymouth Court and Van Buren Street. Floats ...
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| | People with disabilities wanted to talk about justice system 2019-06-23 - Access Living, a local disability rights and advocacy organization, is seeking people with disabilities who have had contact with the Cook County criminal justice system for interviews on their experiences and what they would change about ...
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