• History of the Disability Pride Flag and Disability Pride Month

• UC Berkeley's archive on disability rights

• Film: Crip Camp

• Film: CODA

• Book: Demystifying Disability

• Book: Disability Visibility

The American Bar Association Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council has created a 21-Day Disability Equity Habit Building Challenge syllabus in honor of Disability Pride Month. This Challenge is modeled after the “21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge©,” which was conceived by diversity expert Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. to advance deeper understandings of the intersections of race, power, privilege, supremacy, and oppression.

The Challenge invites participants to complete a syllabus of short assignments (typically take up to 20 minutes) over 21 consecutive days, followed by additional resources and discussion questions. This syllabus is but an introduction to what we hope will be a rewarding journey that extends far beyond the limits of this project. It cannot highlight all the diversity of experiences and opinions within the disability community itself.

Learn more and view the entire challenge here.

Voting

• Protecting the Rights of Voters with Disabilities (6-minute article) (2024)

• The Barriers to Voting Faced by Americans with Disabilities (6-minute article) (2024)

• U.S. Election Assistance Commission releases study on disability and voting accessibility in the 2020 elections | U.S. Election Assistance Commission (eac.gov) (4-minute article) (2021)

Additional Resources

• Report finds people with disabilities continue to face outsized barriers to voting (5-minute article) (2023)

• The Americans with Disabilities Act and Other Federal Laws Protecting the Rights of Voters with Disabilities (23-minute article) (2024)

Discussion Questions

1. How can multiply marginalized individuals work together to impact voting changes that improve accessibility for all?

2. How can voting systems guarantee full confidentiality while also making voting fully accessible to all citizens, including disabled people?

3. Is voting by mail the definitive answer for fully including disabled individuals in the electoral process?

Activism

• How a Young Lawyer’s Mental Health Journey Fuels Her Advocacy Work (4-minute article) (2024)

• A Day in the Life of a Disability Rights Advocate (2-minute video) (2024)

• I'm a Disability Activist Because I Have to Be, But Not Always Because I Want to Be - Rooted in Rights (4-minute article) (2021)

• Activists with disabilities want to lead the climate fight despite barriers in their way (4-minute article) (2023)

• There is No Justice Without Disability (1-minute video)

Additional Resources

• The Capitol Crawl was a powerful act of protest! (2-minute video) (2023)

• My Disability Activism Models My Pride in Who I Am (4-minute article) (2023)

• The story behind a disability awareness activist campaigning (13-minute video) (2023)

• Disability Equity Webinar Series: Disability Rights Activism and Organizing (1 hour video) (2024)

Discussion Questions

1. When you learned about the civil rights movement, did you learn about people with disabilities and their fight for equal rights?

2. Are there ways you can support disability activists using the law to implement systemic change? 

3. How can marginalized communities come together to address shared injustices and fight oppression?

4. Does society treat disability activism different from other types of activism?