Outlines for two NPYM Interest groups

RantWoman here posts outlines from the two Interest groups she organized related to disability at the NPYM 2020 Annual Session. 

What do Friends notice about these outlines?

    Theme and background material?

    Comments about accessibility

RantWoman was clear in her leading to offer interest groups on both topics. RantWoman is grateful to the people who came and RantWoman hopes they found the interest groups to be time well spent.

RantWoman is not clear that she regrets thoughtless scheduling that created conflicts with other interest groups RantWoman might have attended.

RantWoman invites comments on these outlines as part of a generous donation of unsolicited technical assistance.

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Interest Group Outline IG 61

30^th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

(RantWoman)

NPYM Virtual Annual Session 2020

IG 61, Friday July 24, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

 

Welcome and a few minutes of worship

 

Intros

 

            Name, where you are from

 

            Choose at least one of:

                        Pronouns

                        What you are wearing

                        Any access needs

                        A Fun Fact about you, maybe disability-related

                        Something you hope to take away from this interest group

                        A specific question related to ADA issues

                        Anything on your heart that seems relevant

 

            Recording and Transcript: Yes / No

 

            Zoom and flow of Interest group.

                        If you have video, please turn it on while speaking

Please use Raise hand which is *9 on phone

                        Please be sparing about chat to everyone.

Suggesting resources is cool

Saying goodbye if you need to leave early is fine

If there is someone who can only use the chat, listen.

 

            Brave Space / Confidentiality / Narrative Theology

 

A short history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990

 

Important concepts

            Public accommodations

            Reasonable Accommodations

            Minimum standards vs good practices for inclusion

 

Today

 

Ask Friends for examples and thoughts about how these terms apply to specific situations

 

Closing worship     

Interest Group Outline IG 70

Community and Disability: the language we use

IG 70 Saturday July 25, 3:30-5:00 pm

(RantWoman)

NPYM Virtual Annual Session 2020

 

Welcome and a few minutes of worship

 

Intros

 

            Name, where you are from

 

            Choose at least one of:

                        Pronouns

                        What you are wearing

                        Any access needs

                        A Fun Fact about you

                        Something you hope to take away from this interest group

                        Anything on your heart that might be relevant to this interest group

 

            Recording and Transcript: Yes / No

 

            Zoom and flow of Interest group.

                        Please use Raise hand which is *9 on phone

                        Mark is host and will also help recognize people waving hands

                        Please be sparing about chat to everyone.

Suggesting resources is cool

Saying goodbye if you need to leave early is fine

If there is someone who can only use the chat, listen.

 

            Brave Space / Confidentiality / Narrative Theology

 

Community is a core Quaker value but what exactly does community meane especially when community needs to embrace difference and work with people’s varying gifts and challenges, address matters of privilege and structural inequality?

 

The terms we started with (Ask for help finding a definition off the internet)

            Allyship

            Solidarity

            Spiritual Accompaniment

 

Ask Friends for examples and thoughts about how these terms apply to specific situations

 

Closing worship

Dorene’s Access needs:

            Pay attention to others’ access needs. For example,

                        People who lip-read can leave Zoom in active speaker mode.

                        Please remember to turn video on before speaking if possible.

I cannot see faces very well especially in Gallery View. So let’s all watch for each other and help hold moments of distress.

 

Screen share visual accessibility is very limited for me so I always like or files shared in the chat.

 

I am unlikely to use screen share myself. I use 4x screen magnification which I can turn down if needed. However, even at 2x, me moving around on the screen can give other people vertigo. But I am happy to email people before or after with what I have presented.

 

Why do I ask what people are wearing?

I have been going to a series of webinars called CripCamp. Crip Camp is about the intersection of disability and BIPoC issues. All sessions have both ASL interpretation and a live transcript. They now use a model for chat of write in questions, someone reads and then presenters answer.

            I have discovered that one of the most fun things about the panel intros at the beginning of the session is when people describe what they are wearing. So as another way to connect, let’s try it.

I only want to know that you are zooming in your sleepwear if there is something really interesting about your sleepwear.

For myself, I have been Zooming all week with the American Council of the Blind virtual convention. So today I am wearing last year’s state convention T-shirt which is black. The front has yellow lettering that says WCB on top and We Are Community under a picture of 3 different-colored hands grasping each other around a circle. I am also wearing a denim skirt because wearing skirts cuts down a little bit on getting misgendered in public. And I am wearing awesome compression socks with a grey, red, and white design because who says compression socks have to be boring and because good shoes and socks are a vital part of my transportation infrastructure.