Disabled people deserve to thrive, as we are, now.

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The Disability Culture Lab (DCL) is a nonprofit media and narrative lab created by and for the disability community.

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We exist to dismantle ableism and to celebrate disabled people. Our mission is to shift the narrative on disability from fear and pity to solidarity and liberation, and move the needle on ableism from indifference to action. Disability justice guides all that we do.

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Programs

Our programs amplify and support disabled leaders to achieve big wins and shift narratives around disability and ableism.

  • Disability Comms

    Strategic communications consulting for disabled leaders, organizations, and movements as well as organizations doing projects with a disability lens.

  • Disability Hub

    New media and narrative hub focused on creative and social impact campaigning, media relations, culture, and policy change rolling out in 2024 and 2025.

  • Disability Rising

    Groundbreaking fellowship launching in fall 2024 to elevate the media profiles of multi-marginalized disabled leaders nationwide.

  • Disability Source

    Centralized resource launching in fall 2024 for journalists, editors, bookers, and producers that will map top disabled experts across issue areas for interviews and background.

Stay in touch with us.

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Strategic communications consulting by and for the disability community.

We provide high-level communications consulting for disabled leaders, organizations, and movements as well as organizations doing projects with a disability lens.

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A group of rabbis wearing masks is standing in a circle, fists in the air. Many are wearing keffiyeh and black shirts that say, “Jews say ceasefire now.”
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The fight against ableism is key to every social justice fight.

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A person wearing sunglasses, a baseball cap, and holding a baby, stands speaking at a podium during an outdoor rally. Next to them is a sign language interpreter. The podium has a sign that reads, “Disability Justice is Reproductive Justice”.
Activist Joye Braun talks to a person during an outdoor rally. She sits in a wheelchair and is wearing a red shirt, a blue skirt with yellow and green stripes, and a black beret. Behind her are activists wearing red scarves and colorful T-shirts.
A black-and-white photo of a masked person in a wheelchair with a “Black Lives Matter” sign, another masked person is speaking into a megaphone.