Disability Pride Month

July is Disability Pride Month! Disability justice has become really important to me in recent years. I encourage everyone to learn more about it and to challenge ableism in our personal lives and in the systems around us.

I had the idea to add a theme banner on my site for the month. I chose the Disability Pride flag and used some CSS linear gradients with this color palette to set it up. It should be visible if you’re viewing this post on my site during July, or see the screenshot below.

In my searching, I learned about the meaning of the colors:

“The diagonal bands are intended to signify ‘cutting across barriers that disabled people face.’

• Charcoal Grey: Mourning for ableist violence, abuse victims, people who committed suicide and everyone who died due to the disability
• Red Stripe: Physical disabilities
• Gold Stripe: Neurodiversity
• Blue Stripe: Emotional and psychiatric disabilities
• Green Stripe: Sensory disabilities
• White Stripe: Undiagnosed and invisible disabilities”