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Disability Rights and Culture (DRC)

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At Disability Rights and Culture (DRC), we fight for disability justice, celebrate disability pride, and connect people in the community to build disability culture—together.

Formerly called the Disability Resource Centre, DRC is disability-led, radically inclusive Disabled People’s Organisation uniting disabled people across cultures, identities and experiences.

Alongside building disability culture and community, we also provide individual disability advocacy and fight for systemic change, leading Victoria’s disability rights movement.

Link to register for Belong's Disability pride Celebration Event. Date: Friday 21 July, 2pm-6pm. Location: Fringe Common Rooms Carlton, Victoria. This is a free event with a variety show, open bar, musical acts, and games with prizes.

Individual
Advocacy

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Joing Belong

A person with light skin and very short hair who is smiling, while sitting in a manual wheelchair. They have a long green jumper and eans on, with one hand raised in a wave. Behind them is a background of light red and the words "connect to community".

Systemic
Advocacy

A person with brown skin and long curly dark hair sits in a manual wheelchair with their head raised proudly towards the sky. They're wearing a red long-sleeved shirt and tartan dress, in front of a faded red background, and the words "drive social change".

Resources to Know Your Rights

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Disability Culture
and Pride

A person with Downs syndrome who has light skin and long dark hair pulled back behind them. They're wearing a brown smock, with a blue denim jacket, and are smiling towards the camera, holding an iPad close to their body. Behind them is a vivid red background that fades towards white, and the words: disability pride and culture."

Work with
an Advocate

Connect to
Community

Drive Social
Change

Know Your
Rights

Disability Culture
and Pride

“We do this ’till we free us.”

Mariame Kaba