Ann Magill, a writer and disability activist with cerebral palsy, is the creator of the widely adopted Disability Pride flag.
The flag was originally designed to have zig-zagged stripes with much more vivid colors, "to represent how disabled people have to maneuver around all the barriers we face” Ep. 106: The Accessible Stall Interviews Ann Magill, Disability Pride Flag Creator. The flag started to gain popularity around 2019 and was updated in 2021 to the more accessible version widely used today. Magill has released any copyright claims and classified the design as public domain to encourage its use. The flag uses the six standard international flag colors (green, blue, white, gold, black, and red) to denote a global disabled community united by shared experiences. The diagonal band is for ‘cutting across’ the walls and barriers that separate disabled people from society, and also represents the light and creativity of the disability community that cuts through the darkness of ableism.
What the Disability Pride flag colors are meant to represent:
- Black or charcoal: meant to represent the grief and anger of and for disabled persons who are victimized and lost to abuse, negligence, and ableist violence
- Green: signifies sensory disabilities
- Blue: signifies psychiatric disabilities
- White: signifies invisible disabilities, including not yet diagnosed, or misdiagnosed
- Gold or yellow: signifies cognitive, intellectual, and neurodivergent disabilities
- Red: signifies physical disabilities
Disability Pride Flag Image
Alt Text for Image: a muted black or charcoal rectangle with five thick, multi-colored stripes running diagonally through the middle of the rectangle from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. The stripe colors, from top to bottom, are green, blue, white, yellow, and red.
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Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
disability services is claiming I have a overpayment the size of four new cars on their portal. caseworker has been radio silent for months and I’m sitting here like
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Psychosis has still been sorta ramping up, but it’s also just a few days before I get my injection, so that’s not terribly out of the ordinary. Really missed hexbear for that day or so it was kil. Seriously considering switching therapists after she tried to say that my hallucinations are some manifestation of inner desires. Without too much detail, it made me mad enough I wanted to hit her, and I am very rarely a violent person. Also ordered a little digimon virtual pet toy, so that’s nice.
Also had a fun dream where I was the mother of two trans children whose chosen names were Geometry and undecided, but definitely math-themed too.
she tried to say that my hallucinations are some manifestation of inner desires
Crazy, sounds like something a weird Christian pastor would say
Yeah. She says she’s worked with a lot of patients with schizophrenia, but I’m kinda skeptical about how effective she’s been. She also really wants me to live life the way she wants me to, which from what I’ve heard is not how a therapist is supposed to operate.
Idiot doctors told me to cut my thyroxine dose down, as blood tests suggested it was ever so slightly higher than it needed to be. Now I’m so tired I can’t get through the day without falling asleep again. So if I don’t engage much for a while, that’s why.
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I’m not feeling up to engaging much. My migraines have really flared up this past week. I think it’s because now it’s summer everyone is out and about, doused in perfume. If I have to so much as sit in a waiting room, or sit in a taxi or whatever, the intense stench of perfume is everywhere. It makes my life a living hell. Why are people so obnoxious as to think everyone wants to smell them?
Good news: Someone I know is not dead!
Spent like half a week low key freaking out. Frankly, don’t want to know what happened, I’m just glad he’s alive.
There is no afterlife, only annihilation, and that’s horrifying.
No afterlife, only annihilation sounds perfect to me. No more suffering. Any type of afterlife would be infinitely worse, especially since so many afterlives threaten eternal torment for whatever silly little sins we may have committed.
to your last point i don’t see how it’s different from before you were alive.
now the process of dying, most of those are fucked.
My mom’s friend has a 5 year old. The fact she didn’t exist until quite recently is a bit of a mind bender.
