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    <div class="html-content">While Disability Awareness Month draws to a close with Halloween - accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities matters every day.<div><br></div><div>Please join us (<a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/accessibility/posts/112849" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">ADS</a>, SDS, The Women's Center, Critical Social Justice and more) for the <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/womenscenter/events/95123" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">screening of Crip Camp, today at 3p, if you have seen it already, the discussion starts online at 5:00.  Details for joining today's Crip Camp Event are linked here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Our next <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/accessibility/events/95609" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC Accessibility Walk happens this Friday at noon</a>. Consider dressing up as a s/hero-with-a-disability for our trick-or-treat theme.</div><div><br></div><div>And speaking of celebrations, and observing the holiday accessibly and inclusively- here are tips about dressing up and preparing for the holiday - <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/keelycatwells/2021/10/08/hollywood-horror-and-the-cost-of-disability-justice/?sh=518d379c7fcb" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">there are simple strategies for an inclusive experience, as well as avoiding costumes that perpetuate stigmatization by overlapping horror with disability.  Read more here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>On the horizon for November - <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/sss/events/98258" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">please join us, with Athletics' Allied Sports for their League of Dreams event on the 11th in the RAC - click here for details</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>A photo of a carved, lit jack-o-lantern with a cartoonish surprised face accompanies the myUMBC post.</div><div><br></div></div>
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<Summary>While Disability Awareness Month draws to a close with Halloween - accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities matters every day.    Please join us (ADS, SDS, The Women's Center,...</Summary>
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