Bad Disabled Pride Flag
PT: Bad Disabled Pride Flag /end PT
ID: A flag with a black background and five horizontal lines of the same size. Their colors are, from top to bottom, orange, red, white, green and cyan. In the center of the flag there is the symbol of a flame in shades of grey. End ID
The "bad disabled" is an concept used by ableists to shame, discredit, gaslight, denigrate or negatively qualify disabled people who doesn't fit their ableist expectations. For exemple the stereotype that nonverbal people can't write online, that disabled people can't stand up for themselves, that disabled people who can't work are just being lazy, that people with visible disabilities aren't putting enough effort to compensate their disability and/or that they should look forward to be able to, etc.
This idea implies that they are bad disabled and good disabled people: disabled people who does put into question our society (either by simply existing, their personal view of their disability, their political opinions, etc) are inherently bad and those who doesn't are inherently good. Its in fits into the politics of respectability.
Of course, there will never be a single 'good disabled' in reality, since being disabled in an acceptable way can't exist in a profoundly ableist system.
Flag Meaning:
PT: Flag Meaning: /end PT
Black background: being tired of ableism and rooting for deep societal and radical change.
Orange stripe: militantism, speaking up, standing for yourself, fighting against any form of ableism, reclaiming slurs, bringing awareness, participating in protests, etc. Or not able to do such, but wanting to.
Red stripe: being proudly disabled, not hiding your disability, or being visibly disabled (either by choice or not).
White stripe: refusing to mask or compensate your disability for the confort of ableists (either by choice or not).
Green stripe: being useless/uneconomic. Being a burden and/or dangerous for society. Having support needs that society deem impractical, awkward, cumbersome, shameful, scary.
Cyan stripe: not fitting into the preconceived idea sane/abled people or otherwise ignorant people think of your disability. For example: being an autistic person who doesn't fit the "autistic genius" stereotype.
Grey flame symbol: hoping for a better future, better accessibility, better support services, healing from the trauma·s of ableism, learning about your internalised and lateral ableism and working everyday to improve yourself, finding a community and fighting against ableism/sanism together.
