Disability Power Bloc

Disability Power Bloc The fiscal sponsor for disability justice work.

08/14/2026

There are two more chances to experience the FREE virtual workshop series led by legally blind multidisciplinary artist Luna Vintner and presented by Dark Room Ballet!

Moving In and Out of Tune is a listening-based movement practice that invites participants to create music and movement together through live improvisation. Using rhythm, texture, dynamics, silence, and deep listening, musicians and movers collaborate in real time to discover new ways of creating choreography. Designed for movers of all levels, the workshop also welcomes instrumentalists as creative collaborators. No previous experience with dance or improvisation is required.
đź“Ť Location: Online via Zoom
đź’˛ Cost: Free
Remaining Workshop Dates
(12:00–2:00 PM ET):
• August 16
• August 30

To register, please contact Dark Room Ballet at: [email protected]

Music: original composition by Luna 🌝

[Video Description: A montage of Luna’s dance practice over several years, featuring an original composition by Luna. The video features Luna performing contemporary movement in different environments, including a colorful pole dance studio, a classroom, and a home living room. Across the footage, Luna appears with different hairstyles and clothing styles as she explores flowing, light movement with moments of dynamic accents. The montage captures the relationship between the body, music, and space through different moments of her creative journey. At the end of the montage is a flyer advertising Luna’s workshop series, with the same information as above in the caption. There is a photo of Luna in the center, a thin, young, light-skinned Turkish woman with shoulder-length dark brown hair, wearing a black blouse.]

* 3-Month Entrepreneurship Program 9/8-12/8 * Applications DUE AUGUST 15! If you feel stifled working for other people a...
08/05/2026

* 3-Month Entrepreneurship Program 9/8-12/8 * Applications DUE AUGUST 15!

If you feel stifled working for other people and want to feel freer to express yourself authentically and get paid well for work you love, we can help you figure out your business plan, what you do and don’t do, who your work is for, how to set rates, market yourself, and build your brand identity without crashing out.

If you feel like a jack of all trades and master of none, if you feel like you do too many things and they’re not related at all (they probably are!), if you feel like you’re supposed to choose just one career, goal, artistic medium, or idea and you want to feel like an integrated, whole person with a coherent and cohesive business who never gets bored, you’re gonna like it here. Woven

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On a mustard yellow background, green and white text reads: Woven’s 3-Month
Entrepreneurship Program applications are due August 15!

Donate to help Woven provide scholarships for their 3-Month Entrepreneurship Program! They have an opportunity for funds matching up to 50k! If you can help, check out the GoFundMe in their bio.

Image Description: On a robin’s egg blue background, white and green text reads: We have a $50k matching opportunity to provide scholarships for our 3-Month Entrepreneurship Program. Anything you can contribute is enormously appreciated! See the GoFundMe link in our bio.

We’re Hannah and Mia and we created Woven to offer training for creatives, freelancers, and entrepreneurs.

Mia founded .Wizardry to serve their q***r, trans, and disabled community with accessible consent education. Hannah founded her coffee company, Saffron Cowboy | Coffee & Tea Catering | LA Based SaffronCowboy, as a love letter to her mixed Southern and Arab heritage. We recognized that the standard curriculum assumes access to capital, able-bodied stamina, and a relationship to risk that we and our students don’t have. Entrepreneurs in our communities — q***r, disabled, and BIPOC creatives — were getting business advice built for someone else’s reality, so we built programming for our own.

If you feel stifled working for other people and want to feel freer to express

Join legally blind, multidisciplinary artist Luna Vintner for a FREE virtual workshop series presented by Dark Room Ball...
08/03/2026

Join legally blind, multidisciplinary artist Luna Vintner for a FREE virtual workshop series presented by Dark Room Ballet.

Moving In and Out of Tune is a listening-based movement practice that invites participants to create music and movement together through live improvisation. Using rhythm, texture, dynamics, silence, and deep listening, musicians and movers collaborate in real time to discover new ways of creating choreography. Designed for movers of all levels, the workshop also welcomes instrumentalists as creative collaborators. No previous experience with dance or improvisation is required.

đź“Ť Location: Online via Zoom
đź’˛ Cost: Free
Workshop Dates (Sundays, 12:00–2:00 PM ET):
• August 9
• August 16
• August 30

To register, please contact Dark Room Ballet at [email protected]

Image Description in Alt Text.

Video Description: Luna Vintner, a Turkish woman with straight brown hair in a bob cut, speaking directly to the camera, sharing her artistic perspective. We then enter a montage of her composing music, exploring sounds on her computer, and developing her creative practice. The footage continues with Luna leading a workshop, guiding participants through movement explorations that invite awareness of the body, sensation, and connection. We see participants lying on the floor and moving different parts of their bodies, discovering new ways of experiencing movement. The video also captures Luna dancing solo at home, creating music in her studio, and working with her voice through a microphone. Throughout the workshop, Luna is shown composing, collaborating, and engaging with participants as they explore movement together. The video closes with Luna returning to the camera, reflecting the personal and artistic journey behind her work.

Image Description: A studio headshot of Luna Vintner against a plain grey background. A young woman with fair skin and shoulder-length dark brown hair in a bob faces the camera. She is wearing a black top and gently rests one hand on her opposite shoulder. She looks directly toward the camera with a calm, neutral expression. White text on black background that says:

Moving In and Out of Tune is a listening-base

Disability Pride Month may be ending, but we celebrate all year… Here are some easy ways to support our work! Tag your f...
07/31/2026

Disability Pride Month may be ending, but we celebrate all year… Here are some easy ways to support our work! Tag your favorite disabled leader or disability justice project in the comments!

Image Description: black background with five stripes in the upper right corner in red, yellow, white, light blue, and green, the colors of the disability pride flag. The Disability Power Bloc logo is in the bottom left corner. White text reads: “Disability Pride Month may be ending… but we celebrate all year…”

Disability Pride Month may be ending, but we celebrate all year… Here are some easy ways to support our work! Tag your favorite disabled leader or disability justice project in the comments!

Image Description: black background with five stripes in the upper right corner in red, yellow, white, light blue, and green, the colors of the disability pride flag. The Disability Power Bloc logo is in the bottom left corner. White text reads: 
“3 Ways to Support Disability Power Bloc: 
1. Donate to uplift disability justice projects! DisabilityPowerBloc.org/donate
2. Apply if your disability justice project is seeking fiscal sponsorship:
DisabilityPowerBloc.org/application
3. Follow & Engage with DPB and our fiscally sponsored projects - more project spotlights in the coming months!”

For this week’s Historic Highlight, we’re honoring the fierce Capitol Crawl activists whose defiant demonstrations in 19...
07/23/2026

For this week’s Historic Highlight, we’re honoring the fierce Capitol Crawl activists whose defiant demonstrations in 1990 are the reason why we have the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Video Description: 
Archival footage of disabled protestors crawling up the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Some are dragging themselves up, some are helping others, some are dragging their wheelchairs with them. An eight year old white girl with blond hair and cerebral palsy crawls on her stomach as others cheer her on. A Black man with glasses wearing a grey suit gasps for air as he pulls himself up backwards and lets out a defiant scream.

For this week’s Historic Highlight, we’re honoring the fierce Capitol Crawl activists whose defiant demonstrations in 1990 are the reason why we have the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Image Description: White text on black background: On March 12, 1990, over 500 protestors flooded the streets of Washington, D.C. for the Wheels of Justice March. They demanded the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which had been stalled for two years. They marched from the White House all the way to U.S. Capitol building, where Congress was discussing the ADA. The march was led by ADAPT (American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit), a grassroots organization founded in 1983. ADAPT had a successful history of organizing direct actions fighting for accessibility and disabled rights.

For this week’s Historic Highlight, we’re honoring the fierce Capitol Crawl activists whose defiant demonstrations in 1990 are the reason why we have the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Video Description: A slideshow of archival newspaper headlines and black and white photos of ADAPT members in wheelchairs during various direct actions. Activists are shown chained and locked to steering wheels of buses and doorways, laying inside bus luggage compartments and under bus wheels, being arrested and dragged from their wheelchairs.

For this week’s Historic Highlight, we’re honoring the fierce Capitol Crawl activists whose defiant demonstrations in 1990 are the reas

Today’s Historic Highlight features The Independent Living Movement! Swipe to read more and view clips of Ed Roberts s...
07/16/2026

Today’s Historic Highlight features The Independent Living Movement! Swipe to read more and view clips of Ed Roberts speaking about some of his experiences in the movement.

Image and Video descriptions in Alt Text.

Our first historic highlight for is the Section 504 Sit-ins, a disabled-led protest and occupation that resulted in th...
07/09/2026

Our first historic highlight for is the Section 504 Sit-ins, a disabled-led protest and occupation that resulted in the expansion of civil rights and protections for disabled people around the nation.

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Slide 1 - a black and white photo of disabled protestors and allies outside the San Francisco federal building during the Section 504 sit-in of 1977. One protestor holds a sign that says “SIGN 504 We Will Wait NO MORE.” Photo by Anthony Tusler, aboutdisability.com

Slide 2 - Black background and white text, with the Disability Power Bloc logo in bottom left corner. Text reads: “SECTION 504 SIT-INS On April 5, 1977, disabled and non-disabled activists began occupying Dept. of Health and Human Services (formerly Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare or HEW) buildings across the US. They demanded enforcement of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which protected disabled people from discrimination.
The Section 504 sit-in at the San Francisco Federal Building was the longest, most successful occupation of a federal building in US history, lasting ~26 days. Its success was largely due to the solidarity of the Black Panther Party, who ensured everyone had hot meals daily and medical supplies. The SF and D.C. protests were led by q***r women and POC, including Judy Heumann, Kitty Cone and Brad Lomax, a Black Panther with Multiple Sclerosis. This collective demonstration of disability power laid the groundwork for what would become the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.”

07/03/2026

One Free Community celebrates disability pride and in the ways they collaborate and create accessible events together…like the upcoming 4th annual Accessible Virtual Pride happening July 4th and 5th, 2026!

To register for this FREE disability community celebration, check out OneFree Comm or visit:
bit.ly/avp2026


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Video Description: Jesenia is a brown skin native woman with a black, mohawk short haircut with rainbow highlights. Jesenia is wearing native beaded white and yellow earrings, clear frame glasses, a purple shirt with a pink triangle that reads q***r joy is radical, and is sitting in bed with the iconic coral pink walls of Stacey Park Milbern’s house.

This Giving Season, we’re inviting you to give where your values live — and invest in the work that advances Disability ...
12/30/2025

This Giving Season, we’re inviting you to give where your values live — and invest in the work that advances Disability Justice every day.

Like the uplifting work of , strengthening our community day in and day out.

Give boldly. Share widely. Stand with us deeply.

Let’s grow this bloc and move Disability Justice forward together!



Slide 1: A peach-colored graphic with the word “Diversability” at the top. In the center is the Diversability logo reading “Diversability — Elevating Disability Pride, Together.” Below the logo is text that reads: “Mission: Our mission is to amplify disabled voices and democratize disability visibility, representation, and access. We envision a world where everyone is invested in disability equity, justice, and liberation.”

Slide 2: A peach-colored graphic with the word “Diversability” at the top. Below it is a QR code to donate. Below it is text that reads: “Mission: Our mission is to amplify disabled voices and democratize disability visibility, representation, and access. We envision a world where everyone is invested in disability equity, justice, and liberation.”

Slide 3: A collage-style graphic introducing “Disability Power Bloc.” At the center, bold black text reads “DISABILITY POWER BLOC” with the tagline “The fiscal sponsor for disability justice.” Surrounding this text are colorful logos and images from various disability-justice–aligned groups and community organizations.

This Giving Season, we’re inviting you to give where your values live — and invest in the work that advances Disability ...
12/30/2025

This Giving Season, we’re inviting you to give where your values live — and invest in the work that advances Disability Justice every day.

Like the imaginative work of .bond , strengthening our community day in and day out.

Give boldly. Share widely. Stand with us deeply.

Let’s grow this bloc and move Disability Justice forward together!



Slide 1: A graphic on a pink background reading “Burton Bond” at the top. Below is a black logo of two stylized hands forming an abstract eye shape inside an oval. Beneath the logo is text that reads: “Mission: Burton Bond harnesses the power of public imagination to confront, interrogate, and agitate the systems and narratives that keep people from thriving.”

Slide 2: A graphic on a pink background reading “Burton Bond” at the top. Below is a QR code to donate. Beneath it is text that reads: “Mission: Burton Bond harnesses the power of public imagination to confront, interrogate, and agitate the systems and narratives that keep people from thriving.”

Slide 3: A collage-style graphic introducing “Disability Power Bloc.” At the center, bold black text reads “DISABILITY POWER BLOC” with the tagline “The fiscal sponsor for disability justice.” Surrounding this text are colorful logos and images from various disability-justice–aligned groups and community organizations.

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