With Disability Pride Month around the corner, I just wanted to gently remind everyone to find the time to uplift and support your disabled friends/peers/content creators this next month.
We live in a world that is not built to support us. So many of us struggle to feel seen or represented properly, as well as generally feeling isolated from society and opportunities. We still don’t have marriage equality for disabled individuals. In Canada, they made M.I.A.S more accessible rather than helping support us. In a world that is constantly trying to find ways to shut us out, or make us feel like our existence doesn’t matter, it is so important to take this month to support disabled individuals and help educate others on disability issues or include them in your plans!
Please find opportunities this month to collab with a disabled creator. Repost their content. Educate yourselves on disability issues. Ask your disabled friend what you can do to best support them this month (and every month!)
Disabled people are one of the biggest marginalized groups—more than 15% or 1.2 BILLION people—yet we always seem to be forgotten about and almost never see people talking about Disability Pride Month — no brands looking to support us or adding DPM to their agendas etc. It’s rare I see it pop up on my timeline.
Let’s change that this year, shall we? 🤍
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A YouTuber who I will not mention the name of, died of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 42. Crazy. I'm only 23 (almost 24), but I had pulmonary embolism. Wild.