Pronounced "effect"

Affect creates media and community resources for liberated, accessible futures. We are a disabled-led grassroots organization championing disability arts, culture, and justice.

About Affect
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Active Program

Community Care Awards

The Community Care Awards are microgrants honoring BIPOC for their grassroots care work. Awards are given to community organizers and carers through your nominations.

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Active Program

COVID + Health Resource Library

CHRL is a community library for disabled BIPOC, offering free specialty filtering masks and lab-quality COVID tests for borrowing at pop-ups around Portland.

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Past Program

Affect Conf

Affect Conf was an annual 2-day conference plus group volunteering event that took place in Portland, Oregon from 2016-2018. If you didn’t catch it before, we still have videos and transcripts and resources for putting together accessible events.

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