Disability Awareness Week 2025

March 31 – April 4

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Please save the date and join us for the following events.
All events are open to the USF Community.

USF accommodates individuals with disabilities. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information for any Disability Awareness Week events, please contact Rocelyn Evens.

Disability Visibility Art Submissions

Book cover for Disability Visability: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century Edited by Alice Wong

We invite you to submit your artwork for our Disability Visibility exhibition, inspired by the powerful narratives in Disability Visibility by Alice Wong. This collection celebrates the diverse experiences of disabled individuals, amplifying voices, stories, and perspectives that are often marginalized. The artwork should reflect themes of disability visibility, empowerment, and inclusion, contributing to a broader understanding of the lived experiences of disabled people

We encourage all forms of artistic expression — whether visual art, digital art, photography, or mixed media — that aim to engage and inspire conversations about disability, identity, and visibility.

Submission Guidelines:

  • Content: Submissions should promote positive and respectful portrayals of disability and focus on themes of visibility, empowerment, or the celebration of disability culture. We ask that artists avoid using imagery or language that promotes harm, violence, hate speech, or discriminatory ideas. We aim to create a welcoming and respectful space for all artists and viewers.
  • Appropriateness: Submissions must be friendly and free from offensive content, including but not limited to swearing, violence, explicit material, or harmful stereotypes. Artwork that does not meet these criteria may not be accepted.
  • You may reuse projects you've done for past classes or personal pieces if you already have something you'd like to share, it does not have to be brand new for this occasion. 

Selected Works:

  • Selected pieces will be displayed in university-wide emails (with permission given) and shared during a special art show at the end of Disability Awareness Week (optional). This will provide a unique opportunity for your work to be showcased across the USF community and celebrated by a wider audience.

By submitting your artwork, you are contributing to the important conversation about disability visibility, and helping to create a space where all stories are seen and heard. Thank you for sharing your creativity and perspective with us!

Submissions are due by Wednesday, March 26, at 5 p.m.

Submit Your Artwork for the Disability Visibility Project

 

Disability Visibility Discussion and Showcase

Friday, April 4 | 2–4 p.m. | Intercultural Center (UC 411/412)

To conclude Disability Awareness Week, please join us for a discussion and showcase of our Disability Visibility submissions. Snacks and beverages will be provided, and the first five attendees will receive a free copy of Disability Visibility by Alice Wong! All are welcome. 

 

Three book covers: Camouflage by Sarah Bargiela, Stitches: A Memoir by David Small, and Marbles by Ellen Forney

Disability Awareness Display in Gleeson Library

Throughout Disability Awareness Week, we invite you to check out the Disability Awareness display in Gleeson Library, showcasing resources on disability history, culture, and identity that are available in the library’s collections.