Disability Pride Month is described as a time to honour each person’s uniqueness by promoting visibility and mainstream awareness of the positive pride felt by people living life with a disability.
This month is a chance to celebrate the community and their pride. Alongside the celebration, the month is also a chance to kickstart conversations about disability experiences, issues and accomplishments.
Disability Pride Month is a time to start conversations and raise awareness among people who are not part of the disabled community on how to be better allies and what they can do in support.
Our Equality Diversity and Inclusion team have been involving our disability (Ability in the Workplace) and neurodiversity staff networks in the development of a new Equality Action Plan and recognise the benefits of having inclusive, co-productive conversations with diverse groups of people around challenges and opportunities.
What the Disability Pride Month flag symbolises
- The charcoal background represents those in the community who have been subjected to ableist violence.
- The band/road shape represents how disabled people face barriers and have to navigate their life according to them.
- The different colours in the shape represent the creativity in navigating life.
- The colours represent the various experiences and needs (mental health, invisible disabilities, physical disabilities and sensory disabilities) in the disabled community.