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Disability Pride Month Drawing Prompt
In honor of July being Disability Pride Month, draw something incorporating any of the colors and symbolism of the Disability Pride flag that is in keeping with the overall theme of disability celebration, advocacy, and representation.
Here is the Disability Pride flag and what it means:
"The black Field: Mourning for those who’ve suffered and died from Ableist violence, and also rebellion.
The Zig-zag Band: How disabled people must move around and past barriers, and our creativity in doing so.
The Five Colors: the variety of Disability and our needs and experiences (Mental illness, intellectual and Developmental Disability, Invisible and Undiagnosed Disabilities, Physical Disability, and Sensory Disabilities)
The Parallel Stripes: Solidarity within the Disability Community, despite our differences"
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"Pride month is over"
WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition
this disability pride month, extend your thoughts to all the disabled people in palestine. all the disabled people that aren't getting the care they need, and all the people that are becoming disabled due to the genocide.
consider donating to crips for esims for gaza this month, and if anyone has any other disabled run groups or causes that help disabled palestinians feel free to add on.
I just realized it's disability pride month so I'm gonna talk about mine ^^
I am a diagnosed autistic person and have diagnosed ADHD. Throughout my life I've struggled with various things. When I was little, I had no filter. I would talk to anyone and everyone (to the point my daycare was worried). After the *Big C* happened, I became quiet and closed off to others. For around a year, I was alone. But then I was put with my best friend in class and then a few years later, I'm here ^^ eventually my mom noticed me stimming and ticcing (will talk about later) a lot. Along with the fact that I refuse to eat any fruit or touch various things. Eventually I had brought it up to my therapist who had thought I was autistic. I got tested and am now diagnosed.
now onto (technically) undiagnosed things, tics. I...don't know why I have tics. They just kinda started. They usually happen due to extreme temperatures or thinking about tics in general. For example, I've had to stop multiple times writing this due to tics and since it feels like a million degrees in my room and I insist on having a thick blanket, I was ticking earlier. Most of my tics will be physical (hitting my head/chest, my hands jerking around, my head jerking to the side, etc.) but I will occasionally get verbal ones.
Happy disability pride month! :D
Happy disability pride month to
wheelchair users
crutch users
cane users
walker users
people who use other mobility aids not mentioned
people who don’t use mobility aid
people with diagnosis/es
people without diagnosis/es
people looking for a diagnosis/es
people not looking for a diagnosis/es
people that can’t afford a diagnosis/es
people with supportive families
people without supportive families
people who’s family situation is questionable/confusing
people who need their families support
people who don’t need their families support
people who identify with cripplepunk
people who don’t identify with cripplepunk
people who aren’t sure if they can identify with cripplepunk
people who’s disabilities are mis-portrayed in the media
people who’s disabilities are never portrayed in media
people who’s disabilities are portrayed in the media but in stereotypes
people who’s disabilities are common
people who’s disabilities are uncommon
people who’s disabilities are rare
people who’s disabilities are invisible
people who’s disabilities are visible
people who’s disabilities are debilitating
people who’s disabilities aren’t debilitating
people who’s disabilities affect them daily
people who’s disabilities don’t affect them daily
people who need mobility aids but either can’t afford them, don’t want them, or can’t get them due to unsupportive environment/families
people who have cool looking mobility aids
people who’s mobility aids look ‘medical’ or ‘boring’
people who decorate their mobility aids
people who don’t decorate their mobility aids
people who name their mobility aids
people who don’t name their mobility aids
ambulatory wheelchair users that can walk far
ambulatory wheelchair users that can’t walk very far
ambulatory wheelchair users that use other mobility aids
ambulatory wheelchair users that don’t use other mobility aids
permanent wheelchair users
wheelchair users with paralysis
wheelchair users with muscular atrophy
cane users that also use crutches
cane users that only use canes
people with multiple mobility aids
people who colour coordinate with their mobility aids
people who love their mobility aids
people who are neutral about their mobility aids
people who don’t like their mobility aids
deaf/HoH people
visually impaired people
people who use braces
people with genetic conditions
people with chronic pain
people with acquired disablilities
people who became disabled later in life
people who became disabled young
people who have always been disabled
people that deal with ableism
people that can work
people that can’t work
people on welfare
people on NDIS
people that ‘fall through the cracks’
people that can hide their disability
people that can’t hide their disability
people who also struggle with mental health
people who don’t struggle with mental health
people that take lots of medications
people that don’t take any medications
people that can’t afford medication
people that can’t take medication
homeless disabled people
people below the poverty line
people above the poverty line
people with other disabled friends
people with no disabled friends
people that served in the army
people that are independant
people that need carers
people that like their carers
people that don’t like their carers
This is a threat
a brief evolution of the progress pride flag
Daniel Quasar designed the original version (without the intersex circle) to place emphasis on parts of the queer community that don't get as much recognition: POC and trans people. Xe noted that the black stripe has a double meaning for AIDS. As well as it's celebrating rainbow people of colour, it also represents "those living with AIDS and the stigma and prejudice surrounding them, and those who have been lost to the disease".
Valentino Vecchietti, intersex advocate, added the intersex circle in 2021 to raise awareness for the intersex community.
AND WHILE RESEARCHING FOR THIS POST, I FOUND OUT THAT THEY MADE A DISABILITY INCLUSIVE FLAG THAT WAS UNVEILED AT LONDON PRIDE 2024.
You cannot fly these flags without supporting minorities and recognising that LGBTQ+ intersect with POC identities, remembering that trans people exist (including gender non-confirming trans people - that's what the white is), supporting intersex voices, and disabled people. Every single one of those communities intersect in some way.
Love,
a trans/non binary/gender-nonconforming, disabled, bisexual
ps, confession: when i first saw the progress pride flag I hated it, something about the arrow bugged me 😭 I love it now tho
Dear young disabled people,
You didn't deserve this.
Ableism sucks and I wish there was free medical support for everyone (and shorter wait lists).
It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to grieve. It's okay to be angry. It's okay to be sad. It's okay to mourn what you lost to your disability.
On the flip side, it's okay to have fun with it. It's okay to decorate your mobility aids, wear fun disability awareness pins. It's okay to be proud of your disability.
But it's okay to hate it too.
Celebrating your disability, and the disabled community, while hating what your disability puts you through are things that should, and can coexist.
Sending love
~ 💜
Sending love to anyone whose disability has changed the way they look.. whether that be through surgery, medication, shifts in weight, using mobility aids, being limited in the ways you can exercise, having a colostomy bag added, glucose monitors, prosthetics, or anything else that's changed or added to your appearance
It's hard having your body change, especially if it's in a way you don't like at first — whether your disability has given you scars, stretch marks, spots, marks, or altered your appearance entirely: sending love, you've got this.
Reblogging bcs I didn't even think this could be my pride month even though I am double included
"Pride month is over"
WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition
Since it's disability pride month, here's an old story I wrote about someone choosing to become disabled. It's gruesome in parts and there's some vaguely described medical stuff, body horror, and ceremonial cannibalism, so warnings for that. I've always yearned for more disability in scifi and having it on full display or as a point of strength instead of just something to cure or hide away. There's a Radiolab episode that posits we'd make better astronauts and space explorers because we're already used to limitations and that makes it all the more something that should be explored I say.
"Pride month is over"
WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition
Wishing all "trans"abled people a horrible disability pride month because it's not yours. You abelist fuck. You don't deserve anything.
Reblog if you're a real disabled person.
"Pride month is over"
WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition
happy disability pride month to anyone who has a disability from a condition that “usually isn’t a disability”. happy disability pride month to people with disabilities that aren’t often understood by able-bodied people. happy disability pride month to people who don’t have any official diagnosis yet. happy disability to people whose “labs look completely fine”. wishing you peace this july.
Anyone else's legs decidedly not working correctly making you walk in a weird and uncoordinated way that causes your knees to almost bend sideways that you have to consistently fix so your knees don't get fucked up and now you decide that sitting in a chair while doing certain chores is probably a good idea?
My legs don't wanna work correctly for the second day in a row :/
I got my cane today! I got a cane now! It's gonna take a while of getting used to finally having a mobility aids but I'll get there, even if it takes a while and have to switch which side it's on because of how my legs are, I'll figure it out ajd I am so happy!!
ily disabled people
ily disabled people who are dependent on aids
ily disabled people who are too scared to use aids
ily disabled people who have been bullied out of using aids
ily disabled people who feel like they don't need many aids or any at all
ily loud disabled people
ily quiet & mute disabled people
ily disabled people who "make being disabled your entire personality"
ily disabled people who are punk, goth, emo, scene, grunge, metal, vkei, decora and any "wierd" fashion style (especially if you decorate your aids to match you're the coolest)
ily creative disabled people
ily disabled activists
ily disabled people who need a helper
ily disabled people who want to be independent but can't be
ily disabled people who love your independent
ily disabled people who wish they could have a helper
ily disabled people who feel like you're not disabled enough to be valid
ily older disabled people who help younger disabled people
ily young disabled people who help older disabled people
ily overweight disabled people
ily underweight disabled people
ily disabled people trying to lose weight for health
ily disabled people trying to gain weight for health
ily disabled people with invisible disabilities
ily stigmatized disabled people
ily disabled people who don't feel like they fit into any of these phrases
ily disabled people !!
happy disability pride month to every disability! remember there is no such thing as disabled enough use the aids you need