Disability Community Day of Mourning

People with disabilities are twice as likely as non-disabled people to be victims of violent crime. Every year, the national media covers dozens of stories about murders of people with disabilities by family members or caregivers, and many more go unnoticed. Too often, the coverage focuses on sympathy for the murderer, because they had to live with or care for a person with a disability. The message to the public is that our lives, not our deaths, are the tragedy.

On Friday, February 28, join the University of Maryland in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in remembering people with disabilities who lost their lives at the hands of family members or caregivers. We will remember those we have lost and remind the world that their lives had value.

Live captioning and ASL will be provided for this event. Please contact Lydia Sander at lsander@umd.edu with questions or if you need accommodations that will facilitate your full participation in the event. Learn more about the Disability Community Day of Mourning from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN).