The Disability Affairs Cabinet at the University of Florida will be hosting this conference on April 7 of 2005 and we want you and/or your organization to participate! Our desire with this conference is to do more than explore the issues that most of us are already aware of, but instead to create constructive solutions to the social problems facing disabled people today.

The conference will feature a day of panel discussions with scholars, student leaders, administrators, organization members, service providers, and progressive disabled voices. On April 7 we will be discussing social problems facing disabled people and their solutions including: disability and sexuality/body image, higher education, and the representation of disability in mass media and the arts.

At 7pm on April 7 the keynote addresses will be delivered by Dr. Mitch Tepper, Bridget Powerz, Greg Smith, Sunny Taylor, and Tyler Deith. We will be opening a discourse on the topic of sexuality, art and perception. We will attempt to breakdownthe pervasive negative assumption that disabled people are asexual and challenge the social epidemic of fearing the failure to conform to "normal" notions of beauty.

Let's Build a Movement Together!

Welcome
Reitz Union, Grand Ballroom @ 10:30 am

Higher Education
Reitz Union, Room 285 @ 11:00 am

John Denny - Assistant Dean and Director fo Disability Resources at the University of Florida

Laura Kurtz - Business Graduate Student and
Vice President of the Union of Students with Disabilities (USD) at UF

Mathew Dietz - ADA attorney, South Florida

Lunch
Reitz Union, Room 284 @ 12:00 pm

Sexuality and Body Image
Reitz Union, Room 285 @ 2:00 pm

Dr. Mitch Tepper - globally renowned sexologist, Founder of www.sexualhealth.com

Bridget the Midget Powerz - singer, actress, former adult film star

Elle Walters - sociology student at Miami University, founder of www.equalitypassions.com

Bethany Stevens - UF Law Student
President of the Union of Students with Disabilities
uppity crip activist.

Media
Reitz Union, Room 285 @ 4:00 pm

Dr. Carrie Sandahl - Theater professor at Florida State University

Greg Smith - syndicatedtalk radio ost, star of PBS documentary "On a Roll"
www.pbs.org/independentlens/onaroll/film.html

Sunny Taylor - Artist with work in the Smithsonian, reci,
recipient of the VSA award, published in the Monthly Review,
featured on NPR www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4520398

Vincent Taranto - Technology Dean of the University of Florida, UF alumni, film-maker, aspiring media mogul

Dinner
Reitz Union, Room 284 @ 5:30 pm

Coming Together
Reitz Union, Grand Ballroom @ 7:00 pm

Keynote Speakers