What is Disability History Month?
The goal of Disability History Month is to encourage individuals, communities and different organisations to examine our common history from the perspective of disability.
We invite everyone – people with disabilities, activists, teachers, artists, researchers, universities, arts and culture organisations, memory organisations, NGOs, schools – to highlight and explore the history of people with disabilities and disability in diverse ways during Disability History Month and throughout the year.
Join us in making Disability History Month a new annual tradition!
Disability History Month seminar 2024
In Finland, the first Disability History Month will be celebrated in September 2024. The network for Disability History Month will organise a seminar in the seminar room of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma on Wednesday 11 September 2024 from 15:00 to 18:30. The seminar speakers, from activists to researchers, will introduce you to the meaning of disability history, the recording of disability experiences, and historical turning points. The event will be organised in Finnish. Welcome!
More information about the seminar (in Finnish)
Disability History Month event calendar
The Disability History Month event calendar gathers together events related to disability history organised by individuals, communities and different organisations. You can add events organised during the Disability History Month in the event calendar. Events related to disability history can be added to the event calendar also all year round!
How can you participate in Disability History Month?
By participating in Disability History Month events:
By organising an event or exhibition related to disability history:
Are there works or other materials related to disability from your own production or the archives or collections of your workplace that you could put on display? Do you recognize phenomena, perspectives or questions related to the disability history about which you could organise a themed guided tour, panel discussion, reading circle, film screening or other event?
By highlighting and exploring disability history in everyday life:
Are there books or other works about disability history in your library’s collections? Can you think of an activist, researcher, expert or artist who you could invite to your school to talk about disability history? Can you implement a group work, theme day or workshop on disability history as part of your own teaching?
By creating and sharing content about disability history:
Do you know a topic or material related to disability history that you could write a short article or blog post about? Do you have an experience or story related to disability history in mind that you could publish a short video or social media post about?
Share content online and on social media with the subject tags: #Vammaishistoria #Funkishistoria #DisabilityHistory
Tag us in your posts on Facebook and Instagram: @vammaishistoria
We will share posts and stories related to disability history on Disability History Month social media channels during Disability History Month!
By collecting, recording and maintaining disability history:
What kinds of works and other materials are recorded and maintained in the archives and collections of your workplace? Is it possible to carry out reparative collection work at your workplace or review recording and maintaining of materials related to disability history? What kind of personal materials do you have in relation to disability history? How do you keep and save personal memories, stories, objects or other materials related to disability history?