Disabled Silky Shark!!!
I got a request for one more shark for Disability Pride Month and the Disabled Pride Flag!
ID in alt Click for higher quality
Feel free to use with credit
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In July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed by President George H.W. Bush. This landmark legislation is the reason we celebrate this in July.
The Disability Pride Flag, created by Ann Magill and later revised with community input in 2021, symbolizes and includes the following:
• "Red - physical disabilities
• Gold - neurodiversity
• White - invisible disabilities and disabilities that haven't yet been diagnosed
• Blue - emotional and psychiatric disabilities, including mental illness, anxiety, and depression
• Green - for sensory disabilities, deafness, blindness, lack of smell, lack of taste, audio processing disorder, and all other sensory disabilities
• Gray - mourning and rage for victims of ableist violence and abuse
The diagonal band cuts across the walls and barriers that separate the disabled from normate society, also representing light and creativity cutting through the darkness."
-Office of Academic Affairs & Diversity at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [link]
