Happy disability pride month! After many months of discussions and three rounds of polls, we have new meanings for the disability pride flag! Thank you to @capricorn-0mnikorn (the flag's designer!) for all the suggestions along the way, and everyone else who gave input! 💚
In this system, rather than have each stripe represent a different category of impairment (physical, sensory, etc), each stripe represents a different model of disability ❤️💛🤍🩵💚
They are:
🩵 The social model of disability (blue): understanding disability as something that is caused by societal factors like lack of accessibility, rather than as a medical condition. For example, many wheelchair users consider what is disabling about being a wheelchair user is the lack of ramps, elevators, paratransit, etc.
The social model differentiates disability (which is social) from impairment (one's physical/mental limitations), inspired by the idea that gender is social and sex is biological.
The social model is kind of the OG model, and was big with the early disability rights movement. It influenced so many others that came after it, because it doesn't work for all disabilities, or even for all situations.
💚 The political minority model of disability (green): understanding disabled people as an oppressed minority who experience societal ableism, and who are working collectively to resist this oppression. This model isn't concerned with how or why people are disabled, it focuses on the ableism we experience. For example, folks with ME/CFS trying to get medical care and being dismissed, and the blind community suffers from braille illiteracy.
💛 The affirmation model of disability (yellow): disability is an identity worth taking pride in! Deaf gain, not hearing loss. Neurodiversity as something that enriches humanity. Whereas the social model is opposed to the medical model of disability, the affirmation model is opposed to the deficit model of disability.
❤️ The debility model (red): this is a postcolonial model that focuses on how colonial and racist violence cause disablement; like people who are injured by war, or preventable diseases like AIDS. This model differentiates disability, which has a clear before-and-after, from debility, which is a slow wearing out through repeated colonial/racist/etc violence. Unlike the affirmation model, this model views some disabilities as worth preventing, and focuses on how disability is used as a tool of racist/colonial/etc oppression.
🤍 Other models (white): there are lots of other models of disability! Like the medical model (disability is a medial problem), the human rights model (disabled people need human rights laws), and the cultural model (disability is a social construction). Models are lenses used for understanding disability, and one might use one lens in one context, and and another in a different context.
Why these colours? In brief:
⚪ White is often considered the combination of all colours.
🩸 Red has associations with blood and violence.
😁 Yellow has associations with happiness.
♿ Blue is associated with accessibility.
🟩 Green is a combination of yellow (affirmation) and blue (social), or for how the political minority model has grassroots organizing, in contrast to the human rights model.
🖤 Dark grey (or black) continues to represent our collective mourning of disabled lives lost to ableism, eugenics, violence, suicide, abuse, and neglect.
SVG version of the infographic here. ❤️💛🤍🩵💚
Tagging for archival: @disabilitypride @disabilityflagsarchive @radiomogai @liom-archive
Can I get a flag for crip? Like crip theory crip. In a pan-disability sense. I don't have any particular iconography in mind, only that it shouldn't give a vibe that this is exclusive to physical disabilities. If you can link it in some way to the Mad & Deaf pride flags that'd be nice.
Thank you!
Crip Pride Flag
This is a flag for crips and those who feel represented by/part of crip theory, crip pride, and/or general cripness. [SVG version on WC]
Crip is a term that is open to people with ALL disabilities (physical or otherwise) and also to groups who share the crip mindset. (Note different spelling from cripple.)
For folks who like details: I'm gonna explain what crip is for those who may be new to the term! Then I'll talk about the flag design how the different stripes represent different models of disability. 💜
What is even is crip?
Like how "queer" is to LGBT+, "crip" is to disabled. It's an umbrella term, a way of seeing the world. Activist reclamation of "crip" goes back to the 1970s, with disabled performance artists popularizing the term in the 1990s.
Crip theory began in the early 2000s by building on queer theory. Expanding on your [QCI's] recent post, its characteristics are:
Understanding disability as socially constructed.
Fuck capitalism: the social construction of disability as we understand it was a result of the development of capitalism.
Fuck eugenics: Ableism and racism have been entwined for hundreds of years and cannot be understood in isolation.
Fuck colonialism: which is itself debilitating. Violence disables people, and Global South activists have been clear it's important to talk about how war, landmines, etc are disabling.
Disabled people are creative. Where queer-ing refers to a way of being critical of categories, cripping tends to focus on subverting ideas of ability. Disabled people ARE the original makers/hackers.
Disabled people are experts: we know shit. It is *us* who should be the epistemic authorities on disability, *not* physicians.
Crip as a term is open to anybody experiencing the violence of eugenic thought, regardless of identification as "disabled".
Fat studies scholars have been locating themselves as within crip theory since day one. Similarly, reading Cripping Intersex by Orr has made clear to me that intersex has always been crip.
Again, drawing a parallel to queer & LGBT: kink and polyamory may not be LGBT but they are Queer. 🌈
Flag details
The design is based on @capricorn-0mnikorn's Disability Pride Flag. In line with newer meanings for the Disability Pride flag, the stripes represent different models of disability associated with crip theory:
Purple represents the social construction of disability and the influence of queer theory. #82609b is from the Mad Pride flag.
Red represents postcolonial understandings of disability such as debility. Understanding that which chronic illnesses receive care and research is *political*. The choice of #CF7280 is a nod to the AIDS flag. I took the red from the disability pride flag and shifted the hue (but not chroma & lightness) to that of the AIDS flag.
Yellow represents the affirmative and identity models of disability. The opposite of the tragedy model. Many disabilities can actually be beneficial! The choice of #f4db75 is a nod to the intersex flag.
White represents how crip pride and crip theory are pan-disability. It stands for models of disabilities not otherwise represented here. The #E8E8E8 white is also a nod to the neurodiversity flag.
Blue represents the social model of disability, the intellectual progenitor of the social construction model (and crip theory in turn). The choice of #83bfe5 is a nod to the Deaf flag.
Green represents eco-crip theory, the eco-social model of disability, and other crip engagements with environmentalism. The choice of #48af75 is a nod to the nonhuman flag. Because being a cyborg (alterhuman) is a proud tradition of crip theory.
The repetition of purple serves to show crip pride & theory exist within a social construction framework. Also it widens the amount of the flag which is stripes, reflecting how crip includes groups not consistently understood as disabled (e.g. fat, intersex).
As with the disability pride flag, the dark grey (#595959) represents the lives lost to ableism and our collective grief.
Tagging @radiomogai @mad-pride @liom-archive for archival. And I wanna acknowledge @scifimagpie for giving me feedback on dozens of prototypes. 💛
Finally: I release this flag design as public domain! 💜
Disability and intersex: three new flags for three different intersections
EDIT 2024-09-20: new survey on intersex disability flags & coining!
[original post continues...]
The flag on the top with the disability pride rainbows on both sides of the flag is for understanding intersex as part of the disability community. Having the stripes on both ends represent people with other disabilities standing in solidarity with intersex people & fighting the same fights against pathologization, for bodily autonomy, etc.
Considering intersex to be part of the disability community is NOT the same thing as considering intersex to be a medical disorder (intermedicalism). Many disabled people are actively fighting medicalization, with groups like the capital-D Deaf community, mad pride, and the neurodiversity movement being examples.
The flag on the lower left with dark grey on both sides represents people who have disabilities caused by being intersex. For example: chronic pain as a result of IGM, (C)PTSD from medical trauma. People with disabilities linked to being intersex, such as Deafness attributed to MRKH, are also welcome to use this flag.
Finally, the flag on the lower right is for intersex people who also have non-intersex disabilities (e.g. ADHD, EDS, Long Covid). It's an alternative to @queercripintersex's disabled intersex flag for people who prefer the disability pride flag over the universal symbol of access.
I personally interpret @queercripintersex's disabled intersex flag as a flag for intersex and disabled in any way: so it would include people who are disabled solely due to being intersex AND people who are intersex who have non-intersex-related disabilities.
Finally, I wanna coin ~terms~ to go with the first two flags! (Intersex is in disability community; disability secondary to being intersex). But I've been indecisive about what to call them. Disintersex is a solid contender.... but which flag should it be for? 🤔 Interdisabled already has an unrelated meaning. Interdissex is open. Variations on crip also have potential, but I know it's a contested term.
So: two polls! Both polls have the same options, so when voting consider that I want distinct names for the two flags. First poll is below, second poll will be in a second post. 💜
Disability that is *secondary* to being intersex (e.g. PTSD from intersexism)
Cripintersex (intersex-disability survey results part 4)
Cripintersex: an intersex individual who considers the intersex community to be a member of the broader disability community and/or that intersex rights/justice should be considered part of the disability rights/justice movements. 💜
In the survey I recently ran where I asked people about candidate terms & flags for disability-intersex intersections, this was the overwhelmingly favoured candidate term for this meaning.
It had a weighted average score of 4.4 out of 5 (5 is strongly agree / highly suitable). Screenshot of spreadsheet is at bottom of this post.
Part 1 (has a similar flag) - Part 2 (has analysis info) - Part 3
For the Discourse-Averse
Given this is Tumblr and the word crip has a way of evoking Discourse, multiple survey respondents and people in my notifications requested that a non-crip term ALSO be coined should cripintersex come out on top. Which it did.
I'm going to suggest sociodisabled as a term for identifying as part of the disability community, and politicodisabled as a term for identifying as part of the disability rights/justice movements more specifically. So intersex-sociodisabled would be sociodisabled on the basis of being intersex.
These terms weren't in the survey (alas!) but came out of a suggestion made in the open-ended feedback for sociodisintersex as a non-crip alternative. Thank you, anonymous respondent! 💜
I posted a similar-looking flag for this meaning in Part 1 of the survey results, that I'm tentatively thinking of as the intersex-sociodisabled flag. This flag is different in two ways:
- it uses the stripes from the Crip Pride Flag
- the yellow background and purple ring now match the yellow and purple used in the Crip Pride Flag (which I'm also hoping will help with eyestrain 🤞)
And now: Some Discourse
With that out of the way, I'd like to carefully point out a few things in good faith. I've been doing a bunch of thinking on this and reading a lot more about cripplepunk. 💜
Some folks have pushed back on the idea that crip would be appropriate for intersex on the grounds that "crip is for physical disabilities". I would gently like to respond that the most common interpretation of the term "physical disability" is a disability which affects the body (i.e. not mental). 🙂
If one is to understand intersex as a disability, and then try to categorize it as mental/physical/sensory, intersex would be a physical disability. Being intersex is a physical, embodied thing. It is not a gender. It is not a brain thing. It's a category of physical differences. Physicians understand us as physically disfigured and/or having a chronic condition. They consider us within the scope of teratology research, just like Down Syndrome and kyphoscoliosis.
This is why there's a long history of physicians using the term "cripple" to describe intersex people. Historically, intersex people have been understood to have a physical deformity. This language persists in modern medical literature: e.g. hypospadias cripple is still a formal diagnostic term being used in medicine. 😬
Those of us who understand intersex as disabling tend to be doing so because in ways that relate to how intersex is embodied. Intersex people who identify with disability because of the chronic pain they have as a result of IGM. Intersex people who have unstable hormones because of IGM. Intersex people who have needed accommodations to take time off from work/school for surgeries. Etc.
The reasons that intersex people like myself identify intersex as being in line with the disability community is because our rights struggles revolve around our bodies. Whether we get bodily autonomy. Whether we have to expose our genitals to doctors just for their curiosity. Whether we can access the medicines we need.
The controversy around crip tends to revolve around cripplepunk being explicitly for physical disabilities only.
The tenets of cripple punk that I see shared around state explicitly that: "Cripple punk is not conditional on things like mobility aids & 'functioning levels'" and "Always listen to those w/ different physical disabilities & different intersections than yourself. Do not speak over them"
To those of you who believe that crip(ple) should only be for physical disabilities, I ask you, in the spirit of cripplepunk, to consider that intersex, if understood as a disability, is a physical disability. Best I can tell, room is made in the cpunk community for chronic illness and chronic pain. Why not intersex also? 💜
As best as I understand it, the controversy about who is/isn't cripple largely centres on a sense that people with physical disabilities need space to talk about our experiences without neurodivergent people monopolizing the conversation. 👀
Intersex people participating in disability conversation are very aware that we are on the margins here. People like myself who are inclined to see intersex through a disability lens tend to have other disabilities - often mobility ones (I'm a part-time wheelchair user). I obviously can't speak for every intersex person out there, but from where I sit it seems really unlike that intersex people would "take over" the crip space.
Intersex may not be rare but it's also nowhere near as common as mobility disabilities or neurodivergence, and we're nowhere near as coordinated. As a community we are incredibly fractured, and still in the consciousness-raising days. We are not an organized threat, we're a bunch of people in pain, trying desperately to get doctors to stop performing coercive surgeries on our bodies. 🫤
For some of us, disability rights/justice looks like the best route to go to try and make that happen. I'm far from alone in feeling that the queer community has done an underwhelming job of advocating for our issues, and many of the gains we intersex people have gotten have come thanks to disability organizing.
It's maybe worth noting that a large number of intersex people are resistant to seeing intersex as a disability. Indeed, one survey respondent (out of 30) shared they found pretty much the whole survey to be offensive. This is not something that intersex people are united on. Intersex folks have a wide variety of feelings about where intersex best belongs (queer community, disability, both, neither, etc).
Crip is More than Cripple Punk
This post has ballooned in length but I do want to note a couple of other things about the term crip:
Others have already pointed this out, but crip and cripple in practice are not being used the same ways, and it may be productive to think of them as different words.
"Crip" was reclaimed as a pan-disability term, starting in the 1970s. It made its way into the performing arts in the 90s, and then academic crip theory from there. This activist tradition has been using crip in a pan-disability sense for a long time at this point -- much longer than cripplepunk (coined 2014). Terms like crip time and crip labour come from this pan-disability framework.
Crip continues to be a pan-disability organizing term, such as in #CripTheVote and Crips for eSims for Gaza. Tumblr may skew towards cripplepunk but other spaces lean a lot more towards the pan-disability context - all of the in-person activism I've participated in has uncontroversially understood crip as pan-disability. 🤷
Honestly, I'm not sure what is best going forward when it comes to the cripple usage question. 😵💫 Crip is a word with a very well established pan-disability sense.
And it's clear from the survey responses that it resonates with the vast majority of disabled intersex respondents. I didn't think to ask people why - I can only guess that some individuals identified with crip out of the pan-disability sense, and others out of a sense that intersex is a physical disability.
For anybody who wants a breakdown of the ratings of the candidate terms, here are the averages (weighted so people who identified with a given use case / column had a bit more of a "vote"). The use case of intersex-in-disabilty-community is the column titled "COMM".
As always, my flag designs are public domain unless otherwise noted. You are 100% welcome to repost the flag and its definition without all my Discoursing.
I have one more post to write up in this series! We're nearly done! 😅 Thank you for reading, thanks once again to the survey respondents, @scifimagpie, and I'd also like to thank the archival blogs I keep tagging repeatedly for this 💜
Tagging for archival @disabilityflagsarchive @radiomogai @liom-archive @varsex-pride @radiomogai
Intersex-disability combination survey results Part 3: flags for whether one's disability is linked to being intersex
Part 1: four flags and coining of interdebilitated
Part 2: inter-iatrogene and interimpaired (two flags & coinings)
The following three flags represent three different positions that disabled intersex people may hold about what connection (if any) there is between being intersex and disabled.
Intersex-linked disability: an intersex person who has one or more disabilities that are linked in any way to being intersex. This is an umbrella category which includes:
Having a disability that is commonly correlated to your intersex variation (e.g. Deafness and MRKH)
Having an iatrogenic disability (e.g. chronic pain caused by IGM) - i.e. being an inter-iatrogene
Debility due to intersexism (e.g. PTSD from intersexism) - i.e. interdebility
Seeing your personal intersex variation as personally being a disability (e.g. "I find my salt-wasting CAH a disability but I am not trying to claim everybody with this variation does.") - i.e. interimpaired
I wanna explicitly note that like every other intersex-disability combination, this is inclusive of ALL models of disability. While the medical model is a very common way in our society of understanding disability, identifying as disabled (or "with a disability") does not mean that one subscribes to the medical model. 💙
Right: Intersex with unrelated disability. The complement of intersex-linked disability (on the left). Note it's not mutually exclusive: for example, somebody with intersexism-associated PTSD may also wind up with long covid and see that as unrelated to being intersex.
Left: It's complicated! Not everybody has an easy time identifying/articulating what relationship their disability identity has to their intersex disability. Sometimes things are just unclear. 💙
Survey results
Intersex-linked disability
The inset flag was the highest rated candidate flag for this use case, with a weighted average rating of 4.4 out of 5. (People who self-identified with a given use case effectively got to "vote" twice for anything concerning that use case, for reasons I explained in Part 2.)
I had some hesitation in assigning this flag to this use case though. 🤔 The problem with the inset flag is it was broadly popular across the ten use cases. For 8 out of 10 use cases, it had an average rating higher than 4.0. This made it kind of tricky to match to a meaning because it seems it has a real broad appeal/interpretation. 😵💫
As a result it felt important to me that whatever meaning I assigned it would be a broad umbrella term. It was rated slightly higher as a candidate flag for commonly-correlated disabilities (4.5) but that use case had less demand, plus it had one (different) flag that people really consistently rated as being specific to that one meaning. 🤷
Given its broad interpretation, I considered making this flag be a second flag for people who are disabled in any sort of way. 🤔 But then what flag would I pick for intersex-linked disability? The second pick option for a flag was very clearly rejected by a quick poll. And everything else scoring well for this meaning had a clearer association with a different use case. That quick poll also strongly backed up this meaning-flag association, so that confirmed it.
Unrelated disability
Out of the ten use cases in the survey, this one actually had the lowest demand for a flag. Weighted average perceived utility was 3.0 out of 5 (basically: neutral).
I decided to release a flag for this case anyway because I had data which favoured this specific meaning-flag pairing. 😎 If releasing a flag for this meaning, I wanted the flag to be a definite "opposite" to the intersex-linked disability flag.
So I added a row to my spreadsheet where I took the difference between the flag ratings for the linked-disability use case and the ratings for the unrelated-disability use case. Most flag designs had a higher rating for intersex-linked than for intersex-unrelated. The segmented ring flag and the universal symbol of access were the only two where people associated them more with unrelated disabilities than intersex-linked disabilities.
Since the universal symbol of access flag had a much higher rating for the "all possible disabilities" use case, and that use case had a lot of demand, I had allocated that flag to that meaning.
This left the segmented ring flag. It wasn't otherwise getting used, and since the data indicated it was understood as a a flag for disabilities unrelated to being intersex, I figured, why not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's complicated!
This was another case where I picked the flag-meaning association based on what flag design was most uniquely associated to the meaning. This maximalist flag had a rating of 4.0 out of 5 for this meaning, which is decent.
It was not the top-rated flag for this meaning - it was actually the third highest rated for the "it's complicated" use case. The coloured stripes on the side flag that I released as the "intersex is part of the disability community/movement" flag had a higher rating of 4.3. But that flag was more strongly associated to that meaning (4.5).
Same deal with the inset flag - it had a score of 4.2 for "it's complicated", but 4.4 for intersex-linked disability.
Importantly to me, the maximalist flag was more popular for the "it's complicated" use case (4.0) than it was for the either the intersex-linked case (3.8) or the unrelated-disability case (3.3). So this pairing felt good to me in that it seems distinct from both intersex-linked and intersex-unrelated disabilities. 👍️
The version of this flag I'm releasing is a wee bit different from the one in the survey, which was not neatly oriented. A participant wrote in the open-ended feedback they were bothered by the rotation of the survey-version flag being a little off. This version is slightly rotated so the segment at the horizontal middle of the flag is actually parallel to the midline of the flag. 📏
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Once again, my appreciation goes out to those who filled in the survey! And to @scifimagpie for sanity checks! Two people filled in the survey after I started the data analysis. This post includes the results of those two people, but the previous two posts did not. I have now set the google form to stop accepting responses.
Like in Part 2, I used weighted averages so that people who self-identified with a given use case had twice as many "votes" on any question directly relevant to the given use case.
This now shares all the flag-related results of the survey! In my next post I'll get to the remaining coining-related results.
Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @disabilityflagsarchive @disabilityflags @liom-archive @radiomogai @mad-pride
EDIT TO ADD (2024-10-05)
For anybody who wants a fuller picture of the ratings, here's a screenshot of the main spreadsheet - the ten use cases are each columns, and the different flag designs are rows. Darker green means a more positive rating, and if the text is in white it means that was the matching I made.
Intersex-disabled combination survey results part 2: two flags and coinings and one non-result
Part 1 here with flags for four other ways that intersex and disability can go together and one new coining
Left: Inter-iatrogene. an intersex person with an iatrogenic disability. Iatrogenesis is the term for when medical intervention causes illness or disability. This will often overlap with interdebility. But an intersex person who willingly chooses a surgery which causes them an unintended disability (e.g. chronic pain) would be an inter-iatrogene and not interdebilitated. An intersex person who has PTSD from a (non-medical) hate crime would be interdebiltated and not an inter-iatrogene.
Right: Interimpaired: seeing your individual case of your personal intersex variation as a disability. For example, somebody who understands their salt-wasting CAH as a disability, but is not trying to claim that everybody with CAH understands their variation that way.
The matching of the candidate term "inter-iatrogene" to the meaning above had an average score of 4.3 out of 5 (where 5 is strongly agree/highly suitable). It was the highest rated candidate term for this meaning. 😀
Similarly, the flag that I'm releasing as the inter-iatrogene flag was also the top-ranked candidate flag design for this meaning. It had an average rating of 4.3 out of 5. 😀
🆕 Best as I can tell, iatrogene is not already a term in English, so I'd like to coin "iatrogene" as a term for people who have any kind of iatrogenic disability (intersex-related or not). Note: Iatrogène is already a term in French, this is me being a bilingual Canadian and importing a useful term from French rather than "inventing" it. ⚜️
Interimpaired / personal view of one's variation as a disability
In the survey I asked for people to rate suitability of different flag designs & potential term coninigs, as well as how much demand/utility they saw for each use case to even have a flag and/or coining. The two questions about demand/utility have played a big role in how I've prioritized the matchings of terms and flags.
The thing about asking everybody about potential utility is that naturally the people who personally identify with a use case are going to rate the utility as higher than the people who don't personally identify with the use case. 🤔 So I set up the analysis to use weighted averages rather than straight-up averages. If a respondent self-identified with a given use case, their vote counted twice when it came to matters directly related to that that use case.
I did this to ensure that if I saw low demand for a term/flag, I could have some confidence that it wasn't just because people personally didn't identify with it. 😅
I explain all this because this case had a medium amount of demand for a flag (ranked #4 out of 10) and a low demand for a term to be coined (ranked #8 out of 10). 😕
The two highest rated flag designs for this use case had higher ratings for those other higher-demand use cases. The yellow-purple concentric rings on a grey background the best rated flag design that wasn't prioritized for a higher-demand use case. It had an average vote of 3.9 out of 5.
The term-meaning matching for this use case was 3.5 out of 5 - not super high. This was the meaning which had the highest score for the term "interimpaired". However, it was not the highest-scored term for the meaning in question: "intersex-disabled" had a score of 4.0, "interdissex" had a score of 3.9, "disintersex" was at 3.8, and "disabled-intersex" was at 3.5.
But the terms "intersex-disabled", "interdissex", "disintersex", and "disabled-intersex" all have higher ratings on terms which were perceived to have more utility, and so will be prioritized for terms that people said they'd get more use of. 👍️
No flag or term for "variation as disability"
Based on the survey results, I will not attempt to coin a term for somebody who views their intersex variation as a disability, and I'm not presently planning to release a flag either. 🤷
In the survey I presented 10 possible use cases (different meanings that a flag/term could have). This use case is for when somebody a whole intersex variation as a disability, rather than just their own case (e.g. "I have CAH and CAH is a disability." rather than "I have CAH and I personally see it as a disability but not everybody with CAH does.")
This meaning had no clear matching to a candidate term and had the lowest score in terms of potential utility (average rating of 2.5 out of 5 where 5 is strongly agree/high utility). It was also ranked #9 out of #10 for demand for a flag, and no candidate flag showed a clear association with this use case. 💀
This use case got some push-back in the open-ended question. Even though it's totally a thing for (some) intersex people to express these sorts of sentiments, the survey respondents were collectively iffy about giving that sentiment a term and/or flag. As I understand it, the people pushing back on it were displeased that somebody would attempt to speak on behalf of everybody with a given intersex variation.
I'd like to reiterate my gratitude to everybody who participated in the survey and my various polls on this tumblr! 💜
At the rate I'm going through the data, I expect I be posting two more posts on the survey results in the next day or so.
Tagging for archival: @interarchive @liom-archive @radiomogai @disabilityflagsarchive @disabilityflags
Poll, Round Two: what model of disability would you associate with the colour green?
[Edit from 2025-06-30: Poll Round 3 is here, we landed on political minority model for green!]
Earlier this month I set up a poll asking folks what model of disability they would associate with the colour green. The idea is to have each stripe of the Disability Pride Flag represent a different model of disability.
You can learn about different models of disability here! As is, we've settled on, blue is the social model, yellow is the affirmation model, red is the debility model, and white is the catch-all for all models not otherwise represented.
But green has been a tricky one! So I put up a poll, and hilariously it ends in a tie: 22.5% for both the human rights model and the eco-crip model. Time for a run-off vote!
Which model of disability do you think makes most sense for the green stripe?
Human rights model ⚖️ - everybody deserves legal protections
Eco-crip model 🍃 - environment disables us, we're vulnerable to climate change
I like both options equally
I don't like either option, and would prefer something else
