← Back to CalendarMid-November to mid-December (UK)
Disability History Month
A month dedicated to learning about disability history, the history of institutionalization, the disability rights movement, and the ongoing fight for inclusion and dignity. Understanding history is essential to building a more just future.
History
UK Disability History Month has run each year since 2010, from mid-November to mid-December, with a different theme each year. The history of disability is a history of advocacy, resistance, and hard-won rights.
SOURCES
How to Participate
- →Learn about the history of autism specifically, from early pathologizing to the neurodiversity movement
- →Study the disability rights movement, including its radical wing
- →Read disability memoirs and histories written by disabled people
- →Teach disability history in your classroom or community
- →Connect current disability rights struggles to their historical roots
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