Get connected
The Campus Center is always striving to elevate the voices of students with disabilities/disabled students and your needs, movements, and activism. Disability liberation is a welcome topic in the CC and all of us are here to chat, listen, and connect at the intersections of queer and trans experience.
Do you want to talk about getting accommodations through the McBurney Center? Contact us any time and we can help you with the process.
Need accommodations to participate in our programming? We are always happy to provide digital and large print materials, interpretation, live captioning, and other accommodations for our programs and events. Just let us know!
GSCC Liaisons: Tiffany Lee, Katherine Charek Briggs
Resources
Below are PDF resources developed through the GSCC student staff position made possible by McBurney Disability Resource Center.
Queer Disability Resource Guide
This guide offers a list of resources for LGBTQ people with disabilities at UW-Madison. It can be a first stop for navigating relevant spaces and services on campus and beyond.
Sections include: activists, academics at UW, mental health at UW, and local, regional, and national resources.
This 97-page collection offers information on a variety of disability statuses from LGBTQ perspectives. It includes research on disabilities in LGBTQ communities as well as personal narratives. It lists relevant websites, movies, books, and organizations for each category.
Sections include: psychiatric, sensory, physical, and learning disabilities, and etiquette for being a good ally.
Want help talking with your instructors about your faculty notification letter or the accommodations you need? Don’t miss the sample letters from McBurney Disability Resource Center:
Test accommodations email to faculty
Doc conversion/alternative formats email to faculty
We are offering another brief letter template for if you don’t have a faculty notification letter from McBurney, but would still like to ask for accommodations in a classroom setting.
“TBINAA fosters radical, unapologetic self love which translates to radical human action in service toward a more just, equitable & compassionate world.”
“We are small but committed disability-led organisation set up to advance disability arts through the pages of our journal. Our raison d’être is to support disabled artists, as much as anything by getting the word out about the fantastic art being produced by artists within the sector.”
“The Disability Visibility Project (DVP)™ is an online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability stories and culture. The DVP is also a community partnership with StoryCorps, a national oral history organization. Our aim is to create disabled media that is intersectional, multi-modal, and accessible.”
“Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.”
Criptiques, ed. Caitlin Wood
An anthology of short-form writing (essays, memoir, poetry) by disabled writers about their lives and experiences. “Criptiques is a groundbreaking anthology of disabled writers exploring the provocative sides of disability.”
We have a variety of queer disability books in the LGBTQ Resource Library, and we’re always interested in purchasing more! Let us know if there’s anything we should add to the collection, including self-published zines, art, or other media.
Related books and DVDs at the GSCC
You can check out any of the above from our office, or request them through the library system to be picked up and dropped off at any campus library. See more on our library under Academics for more information!
Looking for more? The Social Justice Resource Library at the Multicultural Student Center has books on disability for loan. Drop by or call the MSC at 608-262-4503 to find out more about their collection.
