The Michigan Disabilities Rights Coalition and Her Power are hosting a Disability Pride weekend for parents* of children with disabilities 26-28 April in Rothbury, MI (about an hour west of Grand Rapids.) Full information on the event can be found HERE.
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The facilitators for the weekend are Leah Smith and Theresa Metzmaker. I don’t know the latter, but I do know Leah and her advocacy work is fantastic. She and her also fantastic spouse Joe Stramondo are in the film adaptation of Andrew Solomon’s Far from The Tree, which is a wonderful but emotionally taxing book. (Leah also provided a generous early endorsement of my book.)
22 Advocacy will sponsor a parent or family who would like to go to this event. If you’re interested in attending through the support of 22 Advocacy, please email me at kevin.timpe@gmail.com.
(*According to the event webpage, “when we use the term parent, we are also including guardians and are embracing all types of families (i.e. same-sex partnerships, grandparents raising grandchildren, co-parenting, kinship and foster parents etc.). We support families of choice which can include parents, step-parents, domestic partners, neighbors, communities, religious leaders, and any other person the individual with a disability defines as a parent.”)