Tag: Disability Pride
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Raising the Flag for Disability Pride 2025
I spoke at Inner West Council’s Inclusion Festival, where we raised the flag for Disability Pride. The flag has a black background – for both mourning and resistance.. Green is for sensory disability Blue is for mental illness. White represents invisible and undiagnosed disability. Gold is for Neurodiversity. Red Is for physical disability. Thanks to…
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An open invitation to embrace Disability Pride (whether you’re disabled or not)
On Saturday April 9th, I attended my first ever Disability Pride Fest, in Newtown NSW. Wow! It was huge. It’s taken me a while to process my thoughts about it. As Disability Pride month closes, it seems like a good time to pull some thoughts together from the Pride Fest and from Disability Pride Month,…
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Disability pride is going to be big in Australia in 2022 – how much progress can we make?
Dylan Alcott is Australian of the year for 2022. Dylan is a gold medalist in wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball. He just won a Golden Slam in tennis (all four tennis majors and a gold medal in the same year). He’s a television personality. He’s also a disability advocate. It’s hard to know what the…
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