Pride Month is coming! Spent Tuesday And Wednesday refining my Disability Pride Flag

[Image description: A black flag diagonally crossed from the top of the hoist to the bottom of the fly by a five parallel “Lightning bolt” stripes of light blue, gold, green, red, and purple, with narrow borders of black between them. Description ends]

(And yes, it's the same as my icon).

I actually came up with it a couple of years ago, but I spent yesterday and today taking it apart and putting it together again, so I could be precise about its proportions, instead of just winging it, and saying to myself: "Yeah, that looks about right."

(I'm still figuring out the how-to instructions, so they'll be short and easy to follow)

I also went onto the Creative Commons Website, and officially registered this into the public domain. So I'm actually hoping people will "steal" it and use it on stuff in their Etsy shops, or whatever... (hint, hint). [CC0 -- Free to use, Free to remix, Free to sell, without attribution]

Here's what the symbols mean:

The Black Field: Mourning for all those who’ve suffered abuse and violence, because of ableism, also the connection to the pirates’ Jolly Roger flag, and general rebellion.

The five colors: the wide variety of types of disability: Mental illness, Intellectual disability, Sensory disability, Physical Disability, and Invisible or Undiagnosed Disability

The zigzag shape: how disabled people have to always navigate barriers in the normate world & and the creative problem solving we do every day.

The parallel nature of the stripes represent Disability Solidarity, even though our individual needs and experiences are different.

You like?

(A longer post is likely coming about why I felt the need for a disability pride flag, and why I think Disability is inherently Queer)

...I've X-posted this to queerly_beloved

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Short version of the how-to:

1) The slope of the "lightning bolts" is 1/2 of the total length of the flag by 1/3 the height.

2) The width of each stripe is 1/10 the total length of the flag, minus the width of the black bands between them.

3) The width of the black bands are 1/5 of that (1/50 the total length)

So the example I posted here is ~15 cm high by ~25 cm. long. I made each stripe 2.5 cm. wide. And then I pasted the .5 cm dividing lines over the joins between them (Which just happened to be double MS Paint's fattest preset line width).

I wanted to come up with a design with undefined overall dimensions, so anyone wanting to use it in a protest or parade could use whatever size cloth or recycled cardboard they have to hand, and also that it would be easy to work out the shape of the lightning bolt more or less by eye (and also make the stripes in colors common to duct tape, these days).