Image Description: UPLIFT Access logo with a green border that include the disability pride flag colors of red, yellow, white, blue, and green that overlay a black background on the left. The right side has a black UUA chalice logo next to the words UPLIFT Access, Uplifting Accessibility in and beyond Unitarian Universalism.
The recording and transcript of our recent webinar on voting and disability justice is now available! The program features Disability Justice Associate Rev. Amanda Schuber and Democracy Strategist Nora Rasman (both from UUA’s Side With Love Organizing Strategy Team), and New Disabled South’s Director of Data and Research Kiana Jackson, discussing the intersection of disability justice and democracy defense, and the ways that UU’s can get involved in the UU the Vote 2024 movement.
When you’ve finished checking out our latest webinar, hop on over to the new plain language ballot measure tool, a collaboration between New Disabled South and Disability Culture Lab! It contains accessible versions of 25 state-wide ballot measures from 11 southern states, and it’s just in time to make voting more accessible for folks with a variety of disabilities.
For further information on voting while disabled, thisaccessible voting guide is a great way to find options in your state, so you can be ready to cast your ballot on or by November 5.
By Gretchen Maune (she/they)
Accessibility Resources Coordinator
accessibility@uua.org
As Accessibility Resources Coordinator, Gretchen provides virtual resources for Unitarian Universalist congregational and organizational leaders to create spaces, events, programs and communities which are accessible and inclusive to disabled participants. [learn more]
UPLIFT Access Monthly Accessibility Resource Webinars
Join us for our next UPLIFT Access Resource Webinar on Thursday, November 21 at 12:00pm Eastern.
Provide Hurricane Relief
- Donate to the UUA’s Disaster Relief Fund
- New Disabled South Mutual Aid: Donate to directly support Disabled victims of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton
MOSAIC Fall Conference 2024
Mosaic is a hub of connection, resources, and support for Unitarian Universalists dismantling racism and oppression. On October 17-20th, the 2024 National Fall Conference of Mosaic: Fostering Belonging and Liberation brought together congregational leaders dedicated to building multicultural communities with love at their center.
Click here to watch the recording of the keynote address "For the Living of These Times" by UUA Organizing Strategy Director Nicole Pressley.
UPLIFT Trans and Nonbinary+ Gatherings
Starting their fifth year of programming, UPLIFT Trans and Nonbinary+ events include gathering spaces, pastoral care, and more! Check out their page for further information.
Accessible Publications from Skinner House
Skinner House Audiobooks are NOW AVAILABLE through Libro.fm and other channels!
- Searching for Solid Ground: A Memoir by Reggie Harris, with Linda Hansell
- Spilling the Light by Julián Jamaica Soto (coming soon!)
- Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality and Spirit by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
- Trusting Change: Finding Our Way Through Personal and Global Transformation by Karen Hering
- The Release: Creativity and Freedom After the Writing Is Done, by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, late November)
- Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families, by Peggy Gillespie, 2024-2025 Common Read, late October
- Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism by Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin
- Incantations for Rest: Poems, Meditations, and Other Magic by Atena O. Danner
- Why Can’t I Fix It: The Questions We Ask When We Love Someone with Addiction by Nathan Detering
- A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector by Karen Van Fossan
- The Tending Years: Understanding Your Child’s Earliest Rituals by J.L. Shattuck