I'll be honest — I'm a little late with this post. But maybe that's fitting, because this message doesn't have an expiration date.
Disability Pride Month, for me, is about one thing: being proud of being me. Unapologetically, fully, completely me.
As someone in the disability community, I know what it feels like to be made to feel like you should shrink. To mask. To apologize for taking up space, for needing accommodations, for existing in a body or mind that the world wasn't designed for. Disability Pride is the antidote to all of that.
It's the radical act of saying: I am not a problem to be solved. I am a person to be celebrated.
Why I Created Disabled Comics That same spirit is why Disabled Comics exists. I wanted to create a space — in stories, in art, in merch — where disabled people could see themselves not as sidekicks or cautionary tales, but as the full, complex, powerful protagonists they are. Because when you see yourself reflected back as someone worthy of a story, it changes something. It gives you permission to take up space. To be proud. To be you.
This Is for All of Us Whether you're disabled, a caregiver, an ally, or someone still figuring out where you fit — this month is an invitation. An invitation to stop apologizing for who you are and start celebrating it.
We should all feel free to be unapologetically ourselves. That's not just a Disability Pride value. That's a human one.
So here's to showing up — late posts and all — as exactly who we are.
Happy Disability Pride Month. Be you. All of you.
— Luis, Disabled Comics