Disability Pride Month celebrates disabled persons embracing their disabilities as integral parts of who they are, reclaiming visibility in public and interacting fully with their disabilities out in the open, and rejecting shame and internalized ableism. It is a time for the disability community to come together, uplift, and amplify one another’s voices and be heard. Disability pride has been described as “accepting and honoring each person’s uniqueness and seeing it as a natural and beautiful part of human diversity.” – Americans with Disabilities Act

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[A black person with a Faded Natural Short hairstyle is standing against the black background. This person is wearing green earrings, a silver necklace, and a black polo shirt with the green logo of CODIE.]

[Graphic Image: “Maisha Franklin Safford (next) CODIE Community Outreach” at the left bottom]

[Graphic Images: On the top left: “DISABILITY (next) (Blue letter) P, (Yellow letter) R, (White letter) I, (Red letter) D, (Green Letter) E (next), MONTH. On the top right: Agencies logos set in a triangle from the top: GLAD (next), OCDeaf and CODIE (next) TCGLAD and B-GLAD] [Faded to the next graphic image on the top left: “NATIONAL DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH”: a person throwing up arms in the air, sitting on a wheelchair. Next column: a person signing, a person in a wheelchair with a basketball in their hands, and a person with no arms and legs on the skateboard]

“Disability Pride Month celebrates disabled persons embracing their disabilities as integral parts of who they are, reclaiming visibility in public and interacting fully with their disabilities out in the open, and rejecting shame and internalized ableism.”

[Next graphic image on the top left: assorted balloons with confetti (next) “Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (next) 32nd Anniversary (next) white outline of birthday cake with three cakes]

“It is a time for the disability community to come together, uplift, and amplify one another’s voices and be heard.

Disability pride has been described as

[Next graphic image on the top right: Three blue banners overlapping yellow banners with white fonts of the quotation: “Accepting and honoring each person’s uniqueness and seeing it as a natural beautiful part of human diversity”]

‘accepting and honoring each person’s uniqueness and seeing it as a natural and beautiful part of human diversity.’”

[Next graphic image on the top left shows a person wearing a gray turtleneck, holding its framed art of a person sitting on the bench.]

“The Disability Pride Flag was a collaborative design effort by Ann Magill, a disabled woman… “

“…with feedback from the disabled community to refine its visual elements:”:

[Next graphic image on the top left: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red]

“The Black Field: A color of mourning and rage; for those who are victims of Ableist violence, and also rebellion and protest The Five Colors: The variety of needs and experiences (Invisible and undiagnosed disabilities, physical disabilities, neurodivergence, psychiatric disabilities, sensory disabilities)”

“The White Stripe: Invisible and Undiagnosed Disabilities”: [Next graphic image on the top left: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red. The white stripe has a red border.]

“The Red Stripe: Physical Disabilities”: [Next graphic image on the top left: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red. The red stripe has a red border.]

“The Gold Stripe: Neurodivergence. For example Autism and Dyslexia”: [Next graphic image on the top left: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red. The gold stripe has a red border.]

“The Blue Stripe: Psychiatric Disabilities. For example: eating disorder and post-trauma stress disorder “: [Next graphic image on the top left: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red. The blue stripe has a red border.]

“The Green Stripe: Sensory Disabilities. For example: Can’t smell, can’t feel, and can’t taste”:” [Next graphic image on the top left: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red. The green stripe has a red border.]

“The Parallel Stripes: Solidarity within the Disability Community and all its differences”: [Next graphic image on the top left: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red. The five stripes each have a red border.]

“The Diagonal Band: “Cutting across” barriers that separate disabled people; creativity and light cutting through the darkness”: [Next graphic image on the top left: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red. The diagonal band has a red border.]

“Happy Disability Pride Month!”: [Next graphic image on the top left: assorted balloons with confetti (next)

“Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (next) 32nd Anniversary (next) white outline of birthday cake with three cakes. On the top right: Disability Pride Flag with a black background and diagonal band with parallel stripes from top to bottom: green, blue, white, gold, and red]

[Closing credit: GLAD, B-GLAD, TCGLAD, CODIE, and OC DEAF contact information. (next) An Ariel view of palm trees farm in Riverside. CODIE logo in white pops up. Fade]

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