Disability Pride Sydney

Disability Pride Sydney Event organisers, advocates, running Australia's annual disability pride fest Who We Are
We are an initiative of people with disabilities.

We are a movement of people with disabilities in Sydney who want to bring the disability pride movement to Australia. We organise Australia's only annual disability pride festival and run events throughout the year. The organisers are volunteers with disabilities. All performers and speakers are people with disabilities. We invite you to stand (or sit) with us. This is an event celebrating all p

eople with a disability

Our Aims
- In the tradition of Disability Pride, we seek to to reclaim identity, instil pride and reduce stigma. Like other Disability Pride events across the globe, we seek to turn current treatment and attitudes towards disability on their heads.
_We are about celebration, solidarity and protest for all people with disabilities.
- We want to challenge the harassment, bullying, discrimination and the negativity that people with disability face
- We seek to remember those lost and fight back against erasure by boldly asserting our common humanity.
- We want to celebrate people with disabilities as unique, valuable, valid and distinctive people with rights to be proud of who they are.
- To put a local resonance on a global movement and begin the Inner West’s journey to join other cities as a Disability Pride host. Currently, we are Australia's only annual disability pride event, despite the global movement being decades old. We held the first Pride Fest in 2021 and hope to hold annual events and make them bigger and better each time.

The federal government is in the process of gutting the NDIS and withdrawing the supports disabled people rely on to liv...
06/06/2026

The federal government is in the process of gutting the NDIS and withdrawing the supports disabled people rely on to live every day lives. The NSW government is not ready to fill the gap. Call on Chris Minns to take action.

All people with disability deserve the right to full inclusion and participation in our community, with autonomy and choice to live safe, dignified lives. Critical to this right is the essential, daily, foundational support services that many people with disability rely on and are entitled to.

Lets take a moment to say wow!!! Take pride in ourselves. They tried to silence us and we rose up. The designer of the d...
04/06/2026

Lets take a moment to say wow!!! Take pride in ourselves. They tried to silence us and we rose up. The designer of the disability pride flag told us she chose black as the background for our flag because it is both the colour of mourning and oppression....and the colour of ninja warriors!

28/05/2026
Angry but not surprised to hear that NT police will not be bringing charges against the person responsible for the death...
28/05/2026

Angry but not surprised to hear that NT police will not be bringing charges against the person responsible for the death of disabled First Nations man Kunanjayi White who did not survive contact with police in a supermarket.

One group of coppers found another group of coppers had nothing to answer for.

"In preparation for the inquest Commissioner Dole said the agency was reviewing its policies guiding interactions with people with disabilities." Yeah, that'll help - not.

Sending love and solidarity to the First Nations community, especially those who are disabled..

The Northern Territory police commissioner says the cause of 24-year-old Kumanjayi White's death in custody remains undetermined, with the criminal case against the officers who restrained him now closed.

We love Deb. She is bringing out top circus performers from around the world for her fully accessible show in the city. ...
27/05/2026

We love Deb. She is bringing out top circus performers from around the world for her fully accessible show in the city. How often do us crips own the stage? Well this time we will. Wheelchair accessible, audio described, auslan interpreted. https://events.humanitix.com/criptonitetheshow/tickets

Deb Roach is an amazing disabled circus performer. She has produced a fully integrated, fully disabled cast to make her ...
26/05/2026

Deb Roach is an amazing disabled circus performer. She has produced a fully integrated, fully disabled cast to make her passion project "criptonite". We saw a prototype at sydney fringe festival. It was amazing. Deb represents everything our community is about. ...disabled joy, disabled control, disabled representation. I am so looking forward to this show. Its in the Red Rattler in Marrickville. Get your tickets at events.humanitix.com/criptonitetheshow/tickets

We loooooove Deb. She has been our rock for every disability pride festival. She is doing her passion project. We saw th...
25/05/2026

We loooooove Deb. She has been our rock for every disability pride festival. She is doing her passion project. We saw the prototype and its amazing. She is offering the first 10 disability pride members a discount too.

Share and enjoy.

A sad reality of life for disabled people is we are vulnerable to government employees retaliating against us. Unfortuna...
24/05/2026

A sad reality of life for disabled people is we are vulnerable to government employees retaliating against us. Unfortunately, some disabled people are afraid to make submissions to the NDIS inquiry because they think it might be used as evidence in the ART or in some other way.

This is a complex law, with various nuances, but as a gneeral rule, submissions to parlaimentary inquiries cannot be used as evidence in Tribunals, and you can't penalise people for them.

NB: not official legal advice.

Disability Pride Sydney is running drop in sessions 12-1pm every day Sunday-Friday to help you make a submission to the ...
23/05/2026

Disability Pride Sydney is running drop in sessions 12-1pm every day Sunday-Friday to help you make a submission to the inquiry into the NDIS bill. The organiser is a law PhD student and experienced professional writing teacher who has taught writing to United Nations lawyers. Help might be as simple as body doubling together, sharing ideas, or it might invovled telling us your ideas so we can put them in a submission .

he more we learn about the NDIS cuts, the more we are frightened. These cuts are a direct attack on disability pride.

https://utsmeet.zoom.us/j/82548310960

Check out this fictional/not-so-fictional podcast "Diversity Work". What happens when a diverse group of writers are bro...
23/01/2026

Check out this fictional/not-so-fictional podcast "Diversity Work". What happens when a diverse group of writers are brought together to create a show ticking all the diversity boxes for a network who've been criticised for their lack of diversity?

Created, directed and edited by Pearl Tan. Co-created and performed by: Pearl Tan, Ana Maria Belo, George Coles, Maddison Coles, Emily Dash, Moreblessing Maturure, Jane Park, Priya Roy, Amy Stewart, Suzy Wrong. (Emily Dash has been on stage at our festival).

Diversity Work is a multi-award-winning 5-part fictional podcast series that invites you into a television writers’ room embroiled in a social media storm.

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