Disabled Community & Pride

About Disabled Community & Pride

A group for posting your own art of living with Disabled Pride and in Disabled Community every day of the year! How do you fight ableism*, live a public life as disabled, participate in the community, experience love, and show disabled community and pride?

Welcome! This group is a 365-or-less group (365 meaning you post exactly one photo for every day of the year), feel free to be as laid back as works for you. If that means it's a 52 (once a week) or even a 12 (once a month) group to you, OK. The idea is to document our daily lives in disability community and showing disability pride.

People may choose to challenge ourselves to use this as a 365-style group, to post something for every day, uploaded at least weekly. Given that many times part of the disabled experience is varying energy and abilities, there won't be policing of this, and no guilt if you have some periods of inactivity.

EXPECTATIONS:
While expressions of depression, discouragement, fear, or other feelings associated with living a life labeled as disabled are part of the deal, here are some guidelines about what's not pride:

-Eugenics in all forms, including prenatal screening, "mercy" killing, curebie-ism or promotion of cure-bie groups (saying you want to get rid of some part of your experience is reality and OK here, saying you'd like a cure for all people so X impairment will be eliminated from the earth is not)

-Ableism*, unless in the context of anti-ableism. For example, taking a photo of an ableist incident and commenting about why it was bad is great, but commenting/posting using "retard" as a slur is not.
"*Following the Blogging Against Disablism Day language amnesty.


-Erasing the perspectives of other disabled experiences, other groups or identities, or individuals, particularly members of the group.

-Any other
oppressions- particularly racism, sexism, ageism, classism, heterosexism/homophobia/transphobia, or disability hierarchy (X disablility is more legitimate than Y, "you're not really disbled," etc.)

-Let individuals self-identify and be the only one to out themselves only and always. Since to join all people must agree that the identify as disabled, there is no need for policing of this.

-Discussion and disagreement are allowed and encouraged, as long as they follow the above rules and follow a spirit of non-violent communication.

-All forms of media supported by Flickr are welcome, plagiarism in any form is banned per Flickr rules. License-allowable modification is OK too (taking a Creative Commons or public domain work and making it into your own work). If you'd like to share something you found that you don't have permission to post, please link to it instead.

-All art must have something to do with disabled pride that is either clear to the viewer or explained in the comments. Example- a photo of a disabled animal or your service/therapy animal is great, especially when you tell us why it is part of your disabled pride or community, but a shot of your pet without any reference to disability or comments explaining why it has to do with disabled community or pride is not. As we all have neurodiverse brains that process information in different ways, please do not be offended if what is clear to you is not to someone else, and please ask about this respectfully.

-All participants self-identify as in disabled community or be arting in a collaborative project with a disabled person- for example, a team with one person photographing the person who identifies as disabled, like a parent-child team or PA-disabled person team. No policing, so please self-identify as broadly as you wish. The issue is not your diagnosis, it's whether you consider yourself part of a culture or experience.

With the topic of parents and other allies- you ware welcome if your child decides to partner with you in this project, and if you are willing to follow the guidelines above. If not, you may find a better home in one of the many other disability groups on Flickr.
I recommend Rock That Disability

Let's create some community here, too!