This was our Third Annual Accessible Virtual Pride produced with and for our disabled community and our LGBTQIA2s+ community, with allies welcome. As an organizing strategy this event collaborates with different pride celebrations across the country to help them increase their accessibility and livestream their events throughout the year. July 4 was the best weekend to produce this event because it’s Disability Pride month and also gives us the opportunity to celebrate US instead of the U.S. The people make places great.
Our Annual Accessible Virtual Pride was born from our disabled queer community members not being included in local in-person prides. Whether that was due to the lack of covid precautions or inaccessible venues, many events let go of their accessible initiatives. We listened to our community members and decided to work together to put together this event. It has been a resounding success with many saying this was the first pride they were ever able to attend!
Post the story of your experience this year online! #AVP2025 Promo Doc Link
2025 Accessible Virtual Pride was a multi-day event as well as being a year long accessible experience. We have completed our day of workshops and the variety show and dance party. The LGBTQIA2S+ Oasis is open in the Digital Encampment where you can still enjoy the art gallery, check out the vendor booths, watch the variety show, take political action, and visit Mouthwater Cuntry for hours of burlesque entertainment. We recommend you try the Scavenger Hunt first in Mouthwater Cuntry! Below you can explore direct links to our 2025 archival pride materials
Our 2025 Virtual Pride featured Mouthwater Dancers. MouthWater is a curated collaboration of QTBIPOC disabled artists and the culmination of years of artistic vision from Saira Barbaric (they, he, she, ze). Saira is a nonbinary Black disabled hedonist fascinated by birth, death and rebirth. They are a maker of porn, performance art, costumes, paintings and events. Barbaric grounds their work in mediums and venues considered both high and low art with the aim at weakening the barrier between the two. After a BFA in costuming for theater, Barbaric worked in film and nightlife with an ongoing fixation on crafts and art objects. Calling Up Justice supported their live festival in 2024 and now will be building their new digital territory MOUTHWATER CUNTRY featuring new performers, a cool gathertown space, and the CripDance Gallery.
2025 AVP Variety Show Recap
Watch the Full Video of the 90 minute variety show on our youtube channel or from our digital encampment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8oBxDQghgg&t=3812s
Pride Vendor Booths
2025 AVP Art Gallery
2025 NSFW Art Gallery Link
https://padlet.com/callingupjustice/nsfw-2025-virtual-art-gallery-gczbxmp8xpd6t9fy
2025 AVP Dance Party
After the Variety Show we headed to the Digital Encampment into the jungle themed dance club inside Mouthwater Cuntry. Dj GJ played a curated music video playlist based on our music requests. Folks had fun conversations and we danced for hours. What an awesome way to close the event!
We need your support!
Your support means the world to us! If you want to support our work financially, please consider sending us a Donation to make this event accessible and keep us going!
Supporters of Accessible Virtual Pride 2025
DJCC https://dj-cultureclub.org/
Disability Justice Culture Club (DJCC) is a collective of disabled and/or neurodivergent QTBIPOC rooted in Disability Justice, cultivating joyful resistance and interdependent community in East Oakland to center, uplift, and empower our people through shared resources, relationships, and liberatory spaces where no body-mind is left behind.
StimPunks https://stimpunks.org/
Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People. Stimpunks combines “stimming” + “punks” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to normalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. Instead of hiding our stims, we bring them to the front.
Trans March https://www.transmarch.org/
The San Francisco Trans March is San Francisco’s largest transgender Pride event and one of the largest trans events in the entire world. It’s always the Friday of Pride weekend and thousands of people attend.
Ability First Ottawa https://www.abilityfirstottawa.com/
Recognizing the enormity of the challenges our society faces, Ability First Ottawa is dedicated to assisting persons with disabilities, and their families, reach their social, educational and employment goals, by offering resource infrastructure and skills development in coordination with our supporting community.
Mellon Foundation https://www.mellon.org/
Mellon makes grants to support communities through the power of the arts and humanities.
SPM Disability Justice Fund https://www.spmdisabilityjusticefund.org/
We support the vital work disabled people are doing to create visibility, weave interdependent systems of care, and advocate for an inclusive future. As a fiscal sponsor, we help overcome barriers to funding the disability justice movement.
Intersection for the Arts https://theintersection.org/
Intersection for the Arts is a bedrock Bay Area arts nonprofit that’s dedicated to helping artists grow. Our staff provides people with useful resources to realize creative and cultural projects. We’re a passionate team of artists helping artists.