#Disability Pride Month ♿
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So whenever your disability pride flag is shared on tiktok, ive noticed people asking why do disabled people need a pride flag, or saying that we dont deserve one because we are "co opting" the gay pride movement... and i am honestly at a loss at what to say to them
Okay, then: here's some Disability Pride Talking points for you, when you come upon that assumption:
First: The Disability Rights Movement gained steam in the U.S. at the same time as the Civil Rights Movement was advocating for racial equality, and the Women's Rights movement was advocating for gender equality -- all in the same decade as the Stonewall Riots.
Second: it may seem like Disability Pride Month is "copying" Queer Pride Month, because July comes right after June. But the reason we celebrate Disability Pride Month in July is because that's when The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed: on July 26, 1990. This was the first Disabilities Rights act in the world. It was followed in 1995 by the Disabilities Discrimination Act in the U.K., and in 2019 in Canada.
Third: on April 5, 1977, the (American) Nationwide 504 Sit-in (Wikipedia article) began, to protest the fact that three presidents in a row had been stalling for four years to implement Disability Civil Rights legislation. Disability advocates staged sit-ins in Federal Buildings for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and Seattle, San Fransisco, and Washington D.C..
The sit-in in Washington D.C. lasted 28 hours. The Sit-in in San Fransisco lasted 25 Days, and remains the longest occupation of a Federal Government building in U.S. History (It was epic). The civil rights group The Black Panthers also helped with logistical support.
The police tried to force the people inside to leave by cutting phone lines, forgetting that there were people who knew American Sign Language both inside the building, and outside, in the crowd, and they relayed messages back and forth through the windows (excuse me while I take a Cackle break).
Finally: Disabled people are human beings, and deserve all the human rights as everyone else. But a lot of people in authority, look at our lives from the outside, decide that we already have a low-quality of life (without actually asking us), and deciding that it wouldn't be so bad if we died. You know, at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in this country, it was a fairly common policy that if hospitals ran low on ventilators, they'd just take them from disabled people who needed to use them every day? Remember that?
That's why we have to get loud.
#Disability Pride Month ♿#Disability History#just a few talking points#there are many more#Covid-19#Rationing health care#eugenics#''quality of life''#nothing about us without us
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obsessed with this wheelchair user symbol → ♿︎
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It's midnight here, so happy disability pride month to my fellow disableds, the chronically ill, and also to the temporarily abled.
If your activism doesn't include disability, you're sure as fuck going to wish it did.
Nothing about us without us ♿👊
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Happy Disability Pride Month! ♿
Wishing all my disabled mutuals a very find money on the ground today, and may we make ableists uncomfortable.
#disabled#disabled pride#disabled and proud#cripple punk#fuck ableism#july 2022#disabled community#disability pride month
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My Youtube playlist
Disability and (Dis)Ableism (systems, vocabulary, voices)
I'm still not fully happy with it. It's still cluttered at the end and there's some longer videos I still need to rewatch. But it's the last day of Disability Pride month! I'm not gonna let perfection come before progress!
#disability pride month#leslie exp#chloe hayden#scishow#brian david gilbert#trey the explainer#jessica kellgren fozard#that dang dad#ponderful#vox#twin rabbit#salari#rowan ellis#how to adhd#oakwyrm#solidarity#youtube#lefttube#my playlists#youtube playlist
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July is Disability Pride month. As someone who has struggled with developmental disabilities (neurodivergent), this month means a lot to me and so many other members of the disabled community around the world. This is our month. Be proud of you are and don't let ignorant ableists get you down. Happy Disability Pride month ♿
Disability flag: gold, silver and bronze striped, representing physical, mental and sensory disabilities.
Disability pride flag: diagonally striped flag, representing cutting across the walls and barriers that separate disabled people from society. Red stripe represents physical disabilities. Gold stripe represents neurodivergence. White stripe represents invisible and undiagnosed disabilities. Blue stripe represents psychiatric disabilities. Green stripe represents sensory disabilities. Black background represents the mourning for victims of ableist violence and abuse.
#disability rights#disabled artists#Ann Magill#Eros Recio#disability hate crime#disability rights activist#disability pride month#the future is accessible#anti ableism
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Happy Disability Pride Month, my loves! ♿🎉
You are Valid
You are disabled enough
Disability is diverse
Mobility aids are cool
#disability pride#disability pride month#disability activism#disability#Disabled#chronically ill#chronic illness#disabled
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it's disability pride month babes 🌟♿💙💛💟❤️💚♿🌟 not everyone is rad and bad enough to have two pride months back to back but nah sometimes it feels a bit weird to be disabled and proud but also it's a huge part of my life now, and I'm psyched about my mobility aids cuz they make my life so much easier. If I could marry my walker, I would. Even so, it's tough cuz there are a LOT of places I can't go anymore just because shit wasn't built with folks like me in mind. looking at you, stairs. shoutout to babes with disabilities (*˘︶˘*).｡*♡ #babewithamobilityaid #disabled #cripplepunk #cpunk #disabledartist #nonbinary #queer #mobilityaid #walker #canes #wheelchair #crutches #goth #witch #disabilitypride #lgbtq #punk #tattoos (at Treaty 7 Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfiZl_Xu9BJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#babewithamobilityaid#disabled#cripplepunk#cpunk#disabledartist#nonbinary#queer#mobilityaid#walker#canes#wheelchair#crutches#goth#witch#disabilitypride#lgbtq#punk#tattoos
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It’s raining out today so here’s some pics I took yesterday in my backyard with my love is love pride flag to brighten up the day in honor of Pride Disability Month! Happy July ☀️🏳️🌈🌈 ♿📆❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Five (5) 🖐🏻Disabled People from History that I wish people knew at a 5-year-old’s level
History is complex, and we need to discuss it with a far more nuanced view than we do.
But Disability History is lacking at even this most basic level, and you have to start somewhere. So:
1) Stephen Farfler
Was a paraplegic watch-maker. In 1655, he made a three-wheeled hand-driven cart for himself, inventing the crank, chain and gear mechanism that is now part of all modern bicycles.
[Image description: a contemporary black and white illustration of Stephen Farfler using the three-wheeled hand cycle he’d invented, demonstrating how the hand crank turns the front wheel. Description ends.]
2) Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was severely injured when she defended a fellow slave from an overseer, and was hit in the head with a heavy metal object. Although this caused her pain and dizzy spells for the rest of her life, it did not stop her from working becoming a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, nor did it stop her from being the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the American Civil War.
3) Louis Braille
Blind since childhood because of an accident, Louis Braille invented the tactile writing system named for him at the age of 15.
4) Margarete Steiff
Margarete Steiff contracted polio when she was a year and a half old. Her sisters and neighborhood friends helped her get to school by pulling her in a hand cart. When she grew up, she had a dress-making business, and made stuffed animals for children. Her most famous stuffed animal was a bear with jointed limbs that her nephew designed. It was the first Teddy Bear.
5) Justin Dart Jr.
He contracted polio and had to use a wheelchair in 1947, just before going to university. Even though he earned his degrees in history and education, and wanted to become a teacher, the university wouldn’t let him have his teaching certificate, because he was disabled. Many years later, he was appointed vice chair of the National Council on Disability, and led other government councils after that. He toured the USA with his wife twice, visiting each of the 50 states, and meeting with disabled people to learn about their struggles and how they were fighting for their rights. He helped write the language of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law in 1990
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There are many more things I wish people knew about, such as the intersection between class and disability, and between race and disability, and how the ADA isn’t strong enough to protect disabled people’s rights in the way they need to be protected.
But these are five reference-points that I figure are child friendly.
#Disability History#Disability Pride Month ♿#people we should learn about#bicycles teachers and bears oh my!
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Its the first day of Pride month and I want to remind my LGBT+ fam that Pride is often not accessible and excludes our disabled LGBT+ siblings ♿🏳️🌈
What if you were no longer allowed entry into your favorite gay bar, or safe space/shelter, or queer coffee shop, or queer concert, gallery, show?
These spaces are denied to disabled LGBT+ people all the time due to inaccessibility and ableism.
Whether it's a step at the entrance, a staircase and no elevator, no sign language interpreters, no sensory-friendly spaces, no allergy-friendly food options, or a bouncer not allowing someone with a service dog inside because they ask for documentation that doesn't exist (yes, really happened), this ignorance and discrimination is unacceptable.
It starts with hiring us as organizers, it starts with integrating us into the spaces where we belonged all along. It takes the work to unlearn ableism and misconceptions about disability, it takes effort and care to make our spaces accessible. Pride is for all of us, not some of us. I will add that the attitudinal barriers are much, much bigger than the physical barriers.
Melissa(I am not the woman in the meme but I am the woman in the last picture shown below. Not too shabby for a crone about to be 55 in July🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈)
#AccessIsLove #MakePrideAccessible #TheFutureIsAccessible
[Image Description: Annie sits in her wheelchair wearing a rainbow skirt in front of a door with a step leading up to it. Text on the door reads, "Make pride accessible"]
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I finally got a whole rainbow of this design available on my Redbubble shop, so I wanted to wish a happy Pride Month to all my fellow queer spoonies & people with invisible illnesses and disabilities ♿🌈❤️💛💚💙💜
#pride month#queer pride#spoonie#invisible illness#invisible disability#actually disabled#rainbow#redbubble#my art#invisible not imaginary#queer and disabled
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Bc it's disability pride month I really wanna shoutout my fellow disabled trans people. The way in which disability and gender intertwine are complex and unique and I love you and hear you and appreciate you because we gotta stick together 💕🏳️⚧️♿
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