🌟 About the Disability Pride Flag 🌟
July is Disability Pride Month. And its symbol, the Disability Pride Flag was designed to raise awareness and promote solidarity, pride and acceptance. The original Disability Pride flag was created in 2019 by writer Ann Magill, who has cerebral palsy. Ann attended an event for the 20th anniversary of the ADA and was disheartened to find that it was held in the basement and grounds of an independent living center, rather than being held publicly. This experience inspired her to design the Disability Pride Flag.
After receiving some feedback from the community, she redesigned the flag to what it is today. Ann considers the flag to be a product of a collaborative design effort by her and the community.
The flag’s colors represent:
* Red – physical disabilities
* Gold – neurodiversity
* White – invisible disabilities and disabilities that haven’t yet been diagnosed
* Blue – emotional and psychiatric disabilities, including mental illness, anxiety, and depression
* Green – for sensory disabilities, including deafness, blindness, lack of smell, lack of taste, audio processing disorder, and all other sensory disabilities
* Faded black – for the mourning and rage for victims of ableist violence and abuse.
To learn more about the flag’s history, please visit:
https://www.weinberg.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/history-disability-pride-flag
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