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A library location will be open in each ward on Tuesday, Nov. 11, in observance of Veterans Day. See the full list of locations and hours on the library's Holidays & Closings Page. 

Disability Pride Month

Disability Pride Month flag and heading, with the "O" in "Month" replaced by a blue wheelchair logo

 

 

Disability Pride Month is an annual event celebrated in recognition of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990.

The Center for Accessibility at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library is hosting a variety of signature events to celebrate the anniversary of this landmark legislation throughout the month of July 2025- along with some events around your neighborhood! Show your disabled joy with us!

 

*For reasonable accommodations to participate in these or any DCPL programs, please contact DCPLaccess@dc.gov or 202-727-2142.

Upcoming Disability Pride Events

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Disability Pride Activity Kit with three illustrated images from various children's books above the questions: What does disability mean? and Why do we have disability pride?

Kids Disability Pride Activity Kit

Explore Disability Pride with our activity kit designed especially for children! Dive into a world of creativity and learning  and spark conversations about empathy and understanding with engaging coloring pages, interactive I Spy book activities, discussion questions, and more. This kit is a joyful way for children to embrace differences and celebrate the strength in diversity from an early age.

Explore the Activity Kit

Books for Kids

A taller young black girl with a ponytail waves and holds her white cane while smiling. A shorter young white boy next to her does the same.

The Cane Kids

Kristen Lang

Book cover for "Tenacious" featuring various disabled athletes running, wheeling, skiing, and skating

Tenacious: Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes

Patty Cisneros Prevo

Book cover for A Day With No Words, showing a young black boy with glasses, wearing a bright yellow shirt and purple pants, sits peacefully on the ground with a playground and trees in the background

A Day With No Words

Tiffany Hammond

Cover of "Catastrophe" featuring a young black girl with 2 braids holding a magnifying glass to her eye. Her service dog is at her right wearing a harness. In the background, a white cat sits high in a tree.

Catastrophe (Wednesday & Woof Book #1)

Sherri Winston

Book cover for Shiny Misfits, featuring a young girl with tan skin and long flowing black hair smiling and dancing on a stage in front of a red curtain. Other children peer out from behind the curtain and flowers rest by her feet.

Shiny Misfits

Maysoon Zayid & Shadia Amin

Books for Teens

Book cover for Where You See Yourself, featuring a teen girl sitting in her bedroom in her wheelchair. In the mirror, she sees herself on a college campus

Where You See Yourself

Claire Forrest

Book cover for the young adult edition of Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong featuring white text over bold colored triangles.

Disability visibility : 17 First-Person Stories for Today (Adapted for Young Adults)

Alice Wong (ed.)

Book cover for Work With What You Got, featuring the author, a black young adult man wearing a gray-black hoodie sitting on a bench. His hair is in twists and he does not have legs.

Work With What You Got

Zion Clark & James S. Hirsch

Book cover for Give Me a Sign, featuring a teen girl and boy communicating in American Sign Language (ASL) in front of tall grass and wildflowers.

Give Me a Sign

Anna Sortino

Book cover for The Disability Experience, featuring a teal cityscape and ground, with a group of 4 teens with various disabilities and a service dog posed proudly together.

The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging

Hannalora Leavitt

Books for Adults

Book cover for The Future is Disabled, featuring a bright celestial colors behind an image of a clock. Shadowed human figures take the place of the numbers on the white clock face

The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning songs

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

A thin white woman with long flowing brown hair sits in a wheelchair with a cigarette in hand. Wildflowers and greenery surround her.

Brittle Joints

Maria Sweeney

Lime green book cover with the title "Life on Delay" in black text and the subtitle "Making Peace with a Stutter" and author's name, John Hendrickson, in white cursive script

Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter

John Hendrickson

Yellow book cover for Akilah Cadet's "White Supremacy is All Around" featuring the title arced in bold text over a full length portrait of the author, a black woman standing proudly with one hand on her hip and the other resting on her cane

White Supremacy is All Around: Notes From a Black Disabled Woman in a White World

Dr. Akilah Cadet

Book cover for Out on a Limb, featuring a young woman with long dark hair with her legs up on blue bouch, leaning back on and looking at a man with short wavy blond hair and glasses who has one prosthetic leg.

Out on a Limb

Hannah Bonham-Young

Additional Resources

DC Public Library Center for Accessibility

The Center for Accessibility (C4A, located in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, provides customers with disabilities equal access to library resources and services at all DC Public Library locations.

Kanopy

Watch films and documentaries celebrating the stories of people with disabilities.

Goodmaps

Navigate the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library with Goodmaps! Goodmaps Explore is a free assistive app designed to help the visually impaired navigate indoor spaces independently.

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