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Disability Pride 2024

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Square graphic featuring the disability pride flag designed by Ann Magill. The charcoal gray background commemorates and mourns disabled people who have died due to ableism, violence, negligence, suicide, rebellion, illness and eugenics. The gray background also represents rage and protest against the mistreatment of the disabled community. The diagonal band is for "cutting across" the walls and barriers that separate disabled people from society. It also represents the light and creativity of the disability community that cuts through the darkness of ableism. The stripes represent different disabilities: green is for sensory disabilities, including the blind, deaf, and deaf-blind communities; blue represents emotional and psychiatric disabilities; white stands for non-apparent and undiagnosed disabilities; gold is for neurodivergence; and red represents physical disabilities. There is white text in the upper right corner - “July is Disability Pride Month” and lower left corner — “ 2024 Theme “We want a life like yours.”

July is Disability Pride Month. This year’s theme — “We want a life like yours” — comes from The Arc’s National Council of Self-Advocates. It reflects the disability community’s dreams for life experiences that people with disabilities are too often denied. For more information about The Arc and to find a chapter near you, please visit thearc.org.