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Spring 2019 Town Hall Events

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This Spring of 2019, Rooted in Rights hosted events in partnership with Town Hall Seattle to bring together Seattle’s disability community, as well as Town Hall’s wide audience, in person and online for a Storytellers Film Festival on May 7th and a panel discussion on Parenting Without Pity [1] on June 13th, enabling disabled parents to share their perspectives on parenting rights, growing up disabled, and raising the next generation of disabled youth.

Storyteller Fellow, Paul Tshuma’s video.
Storyteller Fellow, Wilbert Johnson’s video.
Storyteller Fellow, Daisy Wislar’s video.
Parenting without Pity event panelists shown on the screen were able to participate in the discussion remotely via video chat. The moderator and in-person participants sat to the right of the screen.
Parenting without Pity event panelists shown on the screen were able to participate in the discussion remotely via video chat. The moderator and in-person participants sat to the right of the screen.
Image of all the panelists and the ASL interpreter for the audience standing next to the screen that showed live text of what was said during the event.
Image of all the panelists and the ASL interpreter for the audience standing next to the screen that showed live text of what was said during the event.