Bridget Kelly Art
Bridget is an abstract colourist artist, with a chromosome to spare. Bridget’s unique mark making and colour combinations are created using Posca pens on paper or wood. Bridget exhibits in various Sydney-based galleries, as well as in a permanent fixture in Sydney’s inner-west.
COVID Cautious Library
COVID Cautious Library offers a collection of zines, stickers, and prints that promote a better understanding of the pandemic that never ended. These materials cover a vast range of information, from the basics of why and how to wear a mask, to what it’s like to have Long COVID, and the intersectionality between COVID and colonialism.
Disability Pride is about being visible; taking up space to exist as our authentic, disabled selves. It is about proudly expressing our anger, grief, pain, excitement, joy, and love. Disability Pride is about being strengthened as a collective community and empowering each other in the smaller communities within. It is about making space to teach, learn, share stories, laugh, and grow. It is about feeling less alone, and being emboldened to crush ableism.
Easy Read Books
Come and try Easy Read books for adults.
These books are for adults with disability who find reading hard. The stories use easy words and have pictures. They are fun and easy to read. You can start a book club or read them with friends. Meet the writer, Casey Gray, and get your book signed.
Ecoful
I’m Ashton, a medium support needs autistic, disabled and chronically ill creator whose art reflects my world. I lovingly crochet plushies from soft blanket yarn and sell natural crystals, which are my recent hyperfixation! Inspired by my life with autism, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and co, every piece is a small symbol of resilience, joy, and disability pride.
To me, disability pride means radically accepting my whole self instead of viewing my disabilities as inherently wrong. It’s understanding my worth isn’t tied to productivity and honouring my body’s need to move at its own pace. It means accepting that while yes I have limitations, and yes it sometimes sucks to be disabled, I am who I am and I’m going to be damn proud of it!
Emotional Support Buddy
The Emotional Support Buddy is cute and easy to use self care tool. They have been created from our lived experience with anxiety. There are many buddies each with their own meaning. We sell keychains, pins, prints, stickers, and more. Plus a new book called “sometimes my Brain worries”. You can use your buddy to help you focus on your mental health and well-being if you need to, to communicate with others or you can use them just because they’re super cute.
Disability Pride is about celebrating the diversity and uniqueness within the disabled community. It’s a time to shine a light on what’s often overlooked, breaking down stereotypes, and connect through conversations and sharing real lived experiences. It’s about embracing the fact that our brains and bodies work differently— and that’s totally okay. We’re proud of who we are and deserve a world that helps us feel good, supported, and empowers us to thrive.
Fidge Life
My name is Soph. I make and sell fidget toys to help people keep their hands busy and stim freely. The range I sell are quiet, discrete, and small suitable for people of all ages. I am autistic, and a mostly non-speaking AAC user. I also have functional neurological disorder (FND). Despite my disabilities, I am proud of the deep connections I make with people and my detail-oriented creativity.
Sensory tools are part of disability culture. They can improve self-regulation resulting in a calmer nervous system. They serve as a distraction in overstimulating environments, improve motor skills, and stimulate the body from its craved repetitive sensory input. As an autistic person with ADHD challenges, I find fidget toys are a necessary and fun tool to stim with to help focus and stay grounded.
Jimmy’s Woodturning
Jimmy is an autistic woodturner from western Sydney who has been doing woodturning for 14 years and makes wood items such as pens, bowls, breadboards, spinning tops and many more using a lathe. He goes out to markets every weekend to sell the goods he produces at home in his workshop.
Everyone who has a disability can still do things and it might take them longer to achieve their goals or they may need some help to get there but we all need to do something that makes us happy because that is the purpose of living life so it doesn’t matter what it is you want to do as anything is possible! We can also educate other people and inspire them to knowing if we can do it they can but also showing the world that a disability shouldn’t hold you back!
LAH Artist
I work across a range of media but mostly watercolour drawings. I like to make whatever I’m feeling in the moment. I mainly do abstract drawings and landscapes. I like to use emotion and thoughts about my disabilities to help me understand what I’m going through in my abstract drawings. I use still lives to record memories that are associated with the place I’m at. My motto with my practice is just do. Everything I’ve made makes me very proud and was inspired by things and artists I’ve loved since I was little such as my family, friends, myself, and the graphic novel illustrations from all the books I read as a kid.
Disabled pride is important to me for the reasons of community and friendship. As disabled people we are often not thought of in the conversation and with disability pride there is a space for us to be a community and to create advocacy and inspire future change.
Rescue Complex
Slow Fashion for Self Expression – Ethically made street-wear and unique upcycled fashion, exciting pieces that are made locally and environmentally friendly – Because shopping responsibly doesn’t have to mean dressing boring!
Living with an invisible disability, I find myself making excuses for why I am underachieving, why my life looks different to everybody else. Disability Pride means to me that I can stop making excuses and be proud of myself because I know that I am giving 100% all the time and I am more than enough! Why should I apologise for myself?
Scrub By Damian
Scrub by Damian was started by Damian in 2021 at the age of 13. He began by handmaking body scrubs and has since extended his product range. Everything is handmade, including lip and body scrubs, bath salts, oils, shower steamers, and more – all designed to nourish your skin and elevate your self-care routine. Made from natural, high-quality ingredients, each product is created with care.
Disability pride to me means being proud of who I am and not feeling like I need to hide my disability. It’s about knowing that my disability is part of what makes me unique. I want to show others that having a disability shouldn’t be perceived as a negative thing – because with it comes the strength of perseverance and as a result, a deep sense of pride knowing I can overcome the obstacles I face in my day to day life. My business taught me I am capable of achieving great things.
Shh!t Happens
Disability-owned, female-led, and Aussie-made toilet paper that builds power — not pity.
Plastic-free, rainforest-safe, low-waste toilet paper that’s tough on mess, not the planet.
Every roll funds emergency toilet paper and dignity for those doing it tough.
Shira Fox
I am an Australian artist who went to Newtown High School of Performing Arts. I then subsequently lived in the UK and The Netherlands for 15 years where I completed a degree in Fine Art. I have been having mental health problems my entire life after Art school I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. The last 5 years I have been totally obsessed with drawing, last year producing 100 drawings. The themes are my surroundings, my public housing unit, native animals and people. People have called my work ‘intricate, detailed, colourful, whimsical.
Disability Pride is a sort of coming out. Showing myself and my art to the world. Being happy and joyous because my disability makes me special. I am proud of my disability and my art and it’s not often I get the opportunity to express that.
UnElysian Art Studio
I’m an artist who likes to lighten up the talk around mental health, neurodivergence, chronic illness & disabilities. Sometimes laughter can be a good way to deal with some of the more difficult situations these conditions can bring.
I describe my art style as a mix of cute-but-derpy with a splash of sass!
To me, Disability Pride means self-acceptance and showing the world that we are people too. I am allowed to use a mobility aid when I need it without shame. I am allowed to go out and have fun. I am allowed to slow down and recover. It means learning to live and love the body you’re in, and making the best of the cards you’re dealt unapologetically.
WheelEasy
WheelEasy celebrates diversity and inclusion and we are thrilled to join in the spirit of Disability Pride Month this July.
WheelEasy Mobility Map is an innovative, Australia’s leading Accessibility online platform. WheelEasy provides people with mobility disabilities, their family and friends with access information to plan outings with ease by finding accurate access info. By sharing information and experiences, we aim to build a truly inclusive city where everyone can participate fully.
For us at WheelEasy, Disability Pride means celebrating diversity and inclusion and highlighting the challenges and the gap that still exists between talk of accessibility, social integration, and the real barriers people with disabilities face. It’s an important global campaign that brings together people of all abilities to join forces. Celebrating Disability Pride and giving it the recognition it deserves helps grow the movement, making it more visible and impossible to ignore. The more people see it, the more aware they become that accessibility needs real attention, and that for many, getting around isn’t always easy.
Be Seen and Heard!
CripChat Australia
Come meet Jonathan from CripChat Australia at the Festival! CripChat is produced and delivered by Australian Disability, it aims to educate, entertain and inform the general community how they can help us create a more accessible and inclusive society for people with disabilities, their friends, and family. Hosted by Jonathan Shar, David Daoud, Ibby Dee, and Guests.
iSpry Talent Agency
Sign up to be on TV! iSpry Agency provides Actors and Extras to the city’s leading casting directors, production companies, television networks and advertising agencies based in the film and TV industry in Sydney, Australia. We submit our talent for work on regular TV shows, TV Commercials and any movies which are filming here in Sydney.
Connect and Be Supported!
Cerebral Palsy Sporting and Recreation Association of NSW (CPSARA)
The Cerebral Palsy Sporting and Recreation Association of NSW (CPSARA) aims to encourage sporting and recreational opportunities for people of all ages with Cerebral Palsy and other neurological conditions. We will be selling hats and water bottles and promoting our free membership as well as multi-sport social days for all people with a disability! Get a chance to meet a Paralympian and find out how to get involved in disability sport!
Illuminating Insights
Illuminating Insights is a grassroots, lived/living experience-led service run by Sara — a disabled woman, qualified mental health professional and peer worker. Sara offers compassionate support for navigating life with disability in a world that often overlooks us. She’ll be at Disability Pride providing peer debriefs — a chance to talk things through with someone who gets it. Whether you’ve had a tough moment, are feeling all the feels, or just need to exhale — this space is for you.
Disability pride, to me, is a chance to counteract all the struggle that living disabled in a non-disabled world often comes with. It’s a chance to say ‘this is me, and I’m ok, just as I am’. Disability pride is also an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the progress we’ve made.
Legal Aid
Join us at the Sydney Disability Pride Festival as we celebrate inclusion, dignity, and justice for all. Visit the Legal Aid NSW stall to learn how we can provide free and confidential legal help, tailored to the needs of people with disability, their families, and carers. Come chat with our friendly team, collect helpful resources, and learn how we can support you or your community.
Sydney Autism Community Lions Club
We are a Volunteer Service Organisation. We are community minded. We help others as well as each other. We Serve. And we have fun! And we are all friends. Our members are Autistic and Neurodivergent – and those who support Autistic and Neurodivergent people. We’re a Community! We are proud to be a part of the world’s leading family of volunteer service organisations, Lions Clubs International.
At the Sydney Pride Disability Festival we will be representing three other groups as well – Autistic Adults Social Group – Sydney; Au2gether; and Another Autism. Come say hi!
People With Disabilities Australia
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is the leading national cross-disability member driven organisation. We are a national peak disability rights and advocacy organisation, run by and for people with disability.
Disability Pride Sydney 