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Celebrating Strength, Diversity, and Inclusion
Written by Jeremy Muir – PDA’s CEO
As it comes to end of Disability Pride month for 2025, I wanted to reflect on what ‘Pride’ means to me as a person who has lived with their disability for over 40 years.
Every July, Disability Pride Month offers an important opportunity to honour the dignity, achievements, and vibrant diversity of the disability community. It is a time to celebrate the unique contributions, creativity, and resilience of people with disabilities, whilst also recognising the ongoing efforts for equity and accessibility.
Disability Pride Month reminds us that disability is an important part of human diversity, deserving of visibility, respect, and pride. By embracing inclusion and dismantling barriers, we move closer to a world where everyone can fully participate and thrive.
As I have always worked in the disability sector in one role or another, I have had the privilege to meet, to know and to learn from some of the most committed, most talented and just straight-out wonderful individuals living with disabilities or those without disabilities who have worked for the cause. For this I am forever grateful and extremely proud that I have had the opportunity to learn from the best.
Fortunately, I still get the opportunity to meet and learn from people with disabilities and those who work in our community who are new to my life, and I am constantly reminded by how resilient, dynamic, intelligent and committed they are to fighting the good fight for people with disabilities. I am often humbled to call them colleagues, to call them friends and further humbled that they consider me the same.
I am proud of our disability movement, I am proud of everyone I work alongside, I am proud of our history, and I know I will be proud of our future.
More importantly and often difficult to acknowledge, I AM proud of myself.
