Disability Pride Month 2025

July is in Bloom, 🪻Happy Disability Pride Month♿️🩼🦻🏼👩🏿‍🦯‍➡️

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Drawing of four Black and Brown Femmes, one with a cane, one on a wheelchair and two with invisible disabilities. The background id ombre going from yellow to lilac and text reads  “happy disability pride month -July-“

White background with many drawings of disabled folks: one quadruple amputee painting with his mouth, a man in a wheelchair, holding the hand of a standing woman, and icon of a blind person walking with a cane, one deaf boy, speaking with an hearing aid to a female friend, and a Wheelchair user and there too friends walking. A picture of the reimagined disability, pride flag, and the mad pride logo. Text reads “ disability is the only identity you can join at any time.”

On a multi coloured background, a graphic of a search bar says “what is Mad Pride?” on the right top corner is the Mad Pride logo. Text reads: “ Mad Pride has important roots in 1993 Toronto, where many were denouncing the experiences of institutionalized folks in the city. Mad Pride as a field, grew out of the Mad Pride movement and includes core principles such as the institutionalization, anti-psychiatry, and cross movement solidarity.”

On a multi coloured background, a graphic of a search bar says “what is Mad Pride?” Text reads: “Mad Pride” as  a term has been reclaimed by some in order to challenge the dominant psychiatric narrative.” “Mad Matters, therefore is part of a wider current that is helping to promote Mad studies (…). It is also intended to tap into the desire for “ an alternate community” (…), where people can get a sense of who they are and what madness is about without being automatically pathologized (…).” -Menzies, LeFrançois, and Reaume, 2012

On a multi coloured background, a graphic of a search bar says “what is Mad Pride?” With in the bottom right corner a line drawing of a person holding their throat, butterflies coming out of their mouth. Text reads: “ experiencing distress, however, confusing that might be to others, is a human experience and should be responded to with compassion, love, curiosity, and empathy, not fear and stigmatization. Instead of jumping to conclusions that there is something wrong with the person, this could be viewed as a way of communicating pain, processing trauma, or being at a life, crossroads or a significant change is needed.” -Mad in America

On a multi coloured background, a graphic of a search bar says “what is Mad Pride?” Text reads: “Mad Studies is vital and informing Mad politics, as well as anti, poverty, organizing, queer politics, race, politics, and colonial resistance, diaspora, and the various human rights movements, such as women’s rights, children’s rights, disability, rights, and trans rights, among others.” - Menzies, LeFrançois, and Reaume, 2012

A drawing of a tree when its roots growing at the bottom over a rainbow spherical shape. Text reads: “ for more disability resources, visit AliciaAnnPauld.com/allies-ally-library”. “Mad reading list/resources: mad matters: a critical reader in Canadian Mad studies. Eds. LeFrançois, Menzies & Reaume.

Madness, distress, and the politics of disablement, Eds. Spandler et al.

MadCulture.org

MadInAmerica.com”