Celebrating Disability Pride

The tenant chat group includes LiLAC and RWP tenants. Diane, customer voice manager at Progress Housing Group, which RWP is part of, came along to the session and joined in with the chats and activities with tenants Sandra, Fiona, Carl, and John.

Sandra, Fiona, Carl, and John talked about why Disability Pride is important and what it means to them, and everyone shared something they were proud of. They enjoyed making some sun catchers in the colours of the disability pride flag.

Disability pride flag colours

Red: Physical disabilities

Gold: Neurodiversity

White: Non-visible disabilities and those that have not been diagnosed

Blue: Emotional and psychiatric disabilities, like mental illness, depression and anxiety

Green: Sensory disabilities, including blindness, deafness, lack of taste, lack of smell, audio processing disorder and all other sensory disabilities

Charcoal: The charcoal background is to represent people in the community who have experienced ableism, and to protest against this

Celebrating achievements

Carl is proud of his gardening work and qualifications. He looks after the garden at SLATE where he volunteers. “I am proud of all the courses I have completed with the Hollybush Conservation Centre like woodwork and gardening,” says Carl.

John is proud of the time he spend living abroad (l will check where) it was communal living, and he was responsible for looking after the cows and milking them. 

Sandra is proud of her volunteering work at a medical museum. She said: “I work at the Thackray Medical Museum and look after the medical leeches!”

Fiona share that she is proud of the work she is doing with Progress Housing Group, which RWP is part of, and on the RWP Tenant Committee. She is also proud of everything she worked on with the group at Artlink. She said: “I love working with everyone here and I am thankful for the opportunities.”

Find out more about Artlink, here: Community art project - RWP