SFSU Rehabilitation Counseling Students Association

Calling all counselors-in-training, educators, rehabilitation and mental health counselors, community-based organizations, disability advocates and service providers!

Please join us for a fun and educational celebration of the growing successes and supports for people with disabilities!

This is an exciting opportunity to network with the distinguished figures and professionals from the rehabilitation counseling and disability community.

RSVP via Eventbrite at: http://bit.ly/2easuYb

Come hang out with us tonight for a great opportunity to network and socialize with the members of RCSA. Hope to see you there!

Vilissa Thompson, founder of Ramp Your Voice!, showcases the racial disparities in disability representation and care through

The Whitewashing of Disability: Trolls, #DisabilityTooWhite, and The Fight for Proper... I woke up this morning to over eighty five Twitter notifications, most of them tweets and likes of solidarity, but an awful lot of them were full of racist, ableist and misogynistic slurs.

Looking to expand your Crip Lit Library? Check out this blog by Autostraddle:

Crip Lit: Toward An Intersectional Crip Syllabus | Autostraddle A crip syllabus that resists limited notions of embodiment and medical pathology, and demands expansive understandings of disability, gender and sexuality.

We're Not Bitter, Just Tired!

"A common stereotype of the disabled, physically or otherwise, is that we're bitter and angry at the world...

Truthfully, we're just tired. And quite frankly, we're tired from the start...

We're tired of schools making up lame excuses to get out of the IEP up to and including that the IEP is working...

We're tired of seeing the abuse and torture of disabled people justified...

We're tired of seeing the abuse and torture of disabled people justified... "

Read on.

We're Not Bitter, Just Tired | Creating REAL Change for the Disabled

Finally! Accessible Yoga! Everyone always says that yoga is for everybody and every body, and these organizations, studios, and teachers are making it a reality!

Check out these crazy inspiring organizations and teachers below, and find out what they’re all about.

13 Organizations at the Forefront of Accessible Yoga Yoga is for everyone, and these people and organizations are proving that fact! Here are 13 organizations at the forefront of accessible yoga.

Yesterday was Day!

Hooray amazing !

Vocational Rehabilitation counselors open doors for individuals with disabilities. We laud you today and everyday!

Twitterverse became enraged after a photo of pre-peeled, plastic-packaged oranges from Whole Foods Market was posted online. Twitter users accused people of being too lazy to peel their own oranges.

Jennifer Hacker, a woman with peripheral neuropathy and poor grip strength, shares her own views. Read more below:

Pre-Peeled Oranges: What Some Call 'Lazy' Others Call A 'Lifesaver' A photo of Whole Foods' plastic-packaged peeled oranges went viral on Twitter, prompting outrage about environmental waste. Who the heck needs this? People with disabilities say they do.

If you missed Dr. Miele's talk at the Longmore Lecture, you can watch it here!

Dr. Miele holds a Ph.D. in psychoacoustics from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Director of the Description Research and Innovation Lab (DRIL) and Associate Director of the Smith-Kettlewell Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Blindness and Low Vision.

Missed Joshua Miele’s Talk at the Longmore Lecture?: Watch it here! The Annual Longmore Lecture in Disability Studies presents Dr. Josh Miele: “How Access Really Happens: Disability, Technology, and Design Thinking”...

We are hosting the RCSA Spring Social and Rebranding Party at the SoMa StrEat Food Park TONIGHT at 7PM!

Come join us for some food, fun, and festivities!

Bolivian activists with varying degrees of physical disability radicalized protest against government authorities by hanging for several hours on a Viaduct Bridge in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Read more below:

medium.com People With Disabilities Protest Radicalized Hanging Viaduct In Cochobamba, Bolivia

Inspiration. Deviant. Victim. These are just among three of many infuriating stereotypes about wheel chair users that need to be broken.

Read Brittany Blumenthal's top ten list below:

10 Infuriating Stereotypes About Wheel Chair Users That Need To Be Broken I don’t know how I think I can change a stereotype that has been around for always when I don’t know where I’m going next. But I won’t stop fighting it. Even if the fighting drags me into something...

What exactly is inspiration p**n?

In this very funny talk, Stella Young, breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into "inspiration p**n."

Stella Young: I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn't, she'd like to make clear, automatically turn...

Congratulations to our very own Alex Locust, president of the RCSA, for being awarded the NCRE Rehabilitation Education Graduate Student Award!

The award recognizes a graduate student in rehabilitation counseling who has demonstrated exemplary work throughout their studies.