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.
