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Disability Inclusion Year-Round
As Disability Pride Month draws to a close, let’s build on this momentum by continuing to celebrate and amplify disability communities!
Here are five disabled advocates and content creators to follow beyond this awareness month.
Annie Elainey
@annieelainey
Queer, Latinx ambulatory wheelchair-user and accessibility advocate. Annie shares their experiences as a disabled, chronically ill, and autistic woman of color.
Content Themes
Mobility aids, accessibility advocacy, mental health, body image, gender, queerness, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Autism.
Jerron Herman
@jerronherman
Acclaimed dancer and choreographer with cerebral palsy. Jerron reimagines movement through the Black disabled body and explores "the fine line between modernity and antiquity".
Content Themes
Disability arts community, dance and choreography, accessibility advocacy.
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
@jessicaoutofthecloset
Deaf and multiply-disabled educator, activist, and vintage fashion influencer. Jessica adds "vintage lesbian fabulousness to a life with disabilities and chronic illnesses". As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, she also educates on intersectional queer history.
Content Themes
Chronic illness, disability activism, vintage fashion, parenthood, interabled relationships, life as a disabled parent.
Matthew and Paul
@matthewandpaul
Blind artist and children's book author Paul and his sighted husband Matthew share their adventures, hijinks, and life's ups and downs as an interabled couple. Joining them is Paul's guide dog, Mr Maple.
Content Themes
Accessibility advocacy, life with a service dog, wholesome pranks, interabled relationships, Retinitis Pigmentosa, intersectionality, disability joy.
Andrea Dalzell
@theseatednurse
Registered nurse, wheelchair-user, and disability rights advocate who made history as the first registered nurse in a wheelchair in New York State.
Content Themes
Healthcare advocacy, disability rights advocacy, life as a disabled nurse, life as a wheelchair user.
Closing Thoughts
Disability Pride Month might have ended, but supporting and learning directly from our disability communities should be a year-round commitment, especially as experience creators. By following these disabled content creators, we can continue broadening our perspectives and staying informed on how we can be better allies to industry peers, colleagues, and visitors.