Disability Pride Month

Disability Pride Month

Disability Pride Month

Disability Pride Month is an international observance to celebrate the history, achievements, and infinitely diverse experiences of the disability community across the world. Observed each July, the month also serves to commemorate the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark civil rights law that expanded protections and opportunities for millions of people, on July 26, 1990.

This page has been curated to support learning, reflection, and meaningful engagement for all levels of knowledge. Members of the Mount Holyoke community are encouraged to join us in learning more about ableism, Disability Justice, and our collective work toward cultivating a more just, equitable, and accessible world here at the College and beyond. We invite you to engage with some of the suggested materials and recorded content below and to help foster these important conversations not only this month, but throughout the entire year.

This series is sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Division of Student Affairs Disability Services and the Career Development Center.

Asynchronous Learning
MHC resources
General resources
Activists to follow and learn from
Watch and reflect upon one of the recent DEI program videos
  • The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 
  • Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 
  • Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk
  • Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew
  • How to Tell When We Will Die by Johanna Hedva 
  • The Anti-Ableist Manifest by Tiffany Yu 
  • Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges 
  • Loving Our Own Bones by Julia Watts Belser 
  • Disability Intimacy edited by Alice Wong
  • Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong
  • Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
  • Disfigured by Amanda Leduc 
  • Crip Kinship by Shayda Kafai 
  • Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau
  • Meet Maya Cat by Lauren Beader 
  • All the Way to the Top by Annette Bay Pimentel
  • Benny Doesn't Like to Be Hugged by Zetta Elliott
  • Fighting for Yes! The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann by Maryann Cocca-Leffle
  • Mama Zooms by Jane Cowen-Fletcher
  • My City Speaks by Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron
  • Signs of Friendship by Annie Silvestro
  • I Identity as Blind by Lachi
  • Accessible America by Bess Williamson
  • Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin
  • Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judy Heumann 
  • Academic Ableism by Jay T. Dolmage 
  • Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell
  • When is Separate Unequal? A Disability Perspective by Ruth Colker
  • Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity by Simi Linton
Films