Disability Pride Month is held across the month of July. While it is often not widely celebrated and some within the community have mixed feelings about it. I thought I would take this opportunity to share some things about Disability over the month. I’m going to predominantly be sharing information and insights that I personally relate to. But I will aim to include other information as well.

Below is a picture of the New and updated Disability Pride Flag.

This flag was updated from the original design with zigzaged lines and sharper colours to straighter lines and more muted colours in order to make it more accessible.

In order of appearance from top to bottom, the meaning behind the colours are as follows:

💚Green is for sensory disabilities
🩵Blue represents emotional and psychiatric disabilities
🤍White stands for non-visible and undiagnosed disabilities
💛Gold is for neurodiversity
❤️Red represents physical disabilities.

The stripes are displayed on a faded charcoal black background which commemorates and mourns disabled people who’ve died due to ableism, violence, negligence, suicide, rebellion, illness and eugenics.

The dark background also represents rage and protest against the mistreatment of the disabled community.

According to the creator’s statement, black is also a connection to the pirates’ Jolly Roger flag, a general symbol of rebellion.

Happy Pride x