Announcement: One of my Resolutions for 2018:

Make regular posts on Disability History

To get ready, I made this header, today, so that they’ll be easy to spot on your reading page:


[Image description: A digital rendering of the Disability Pride Flag (five parallel lightning bolt lines [blue, gold, green, red, and purple] running diagonally across a black field) flying at the top of a flagpole, with a partially sunny/partially cloudy sky in the background. The flag is flying above the words: “This Month in Disability History” in dark purple letters. Description Ends]

Things that will have high priority for this project:

• Notable Disabled people’s birthdays, when they are known.
  
• Their death days, when birthdays are not known.
  
• Important events in Disability History -- that impacted, for good or ill, the lives of disabled people from then on.

What will be of lower priority:

• The history of normate people who’ve done things for disabled people, as philanthropy or charity (yes, I’m looking at you, Jerry Lewis, ya bastard)
  
  I was originally planning on making it “This Week in Disability History,” but my Internet searches came up with historical “dates” that only got as specific as month, so... Yeah.
  
  I'm also posting this here to ask for your help: Because I'm Web searching from the U.S., U.S. history is getting top billing in the results. And I don't know what I don't know. If you're in a country outside the U.S., and know of a person or event that should be in this calendar, let me know -- either in comments or by P.M. Please and Thank You!
  
  (And yes, I'm including mental illness as a disability)
  
  Also, signal boost this. The reason I'm doing this is because disability history is so little known, most people (including many disabled people) don't even know it's a thing.