Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Content Note: Filicide (disabled people being murdered by caretakers) will be discussed during this livestream.
This is the virtual Disability Day of Mourning Vigil. Here, we will spend the evening remembering those in our community lost to filicide, and reading the names of those lost.
Please be sure to turn on captions in the lower righthand side of the viewing window if you need them.
For more information about filicide and DDOM, check out the readings below. You can follow conversations about DDOM by checking out these hashtags:
#DDOM #DisabilityDayofMourning #DDOM2021
Readings:
Killing Words, by Zoe Gross: autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/killing-words
Connecting Dots by Bev Harp:aspergersquare8.blogspot.com/2012/05/badd-connecting-dots.html
In Memoriam by Squiditty: squiditty.tumblr.com/post/19869476380/in-memoriam
Memorial to Katherine (Katie) McCarron by Mel Baggs: ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/memorial-to-katherine-katie-mccarron
Letter To A Baby Who Was Thrown From A Bridge by Astra Milberg: mouthmag.com/bridgebaby.htm
I Am Not A Burden by Tuttle: turtleisaverb.blogspot.com/2014/02/i-am-not-burden-day-of-mourning-2014.html
Remember by Amy Sequenzia: ollibean.com/2013/12/17/remember
Not Human Anymore- Is This What "Ally" Means? on Autistic Hoya by Lydia Brown: autistichoya.com/2012/03/not-human-anymore-is-this-what-ally.html
I Do Believe This Is… by Savannah L. B.: crackedmirrorinshalott.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/i-do-believe-this-is
On Our Backs We Will Carry Them by Ari Ne’eman: autisticadvocacy.org/2015/02/on-our-backs-we-will-carry-them
Remarks at Day of Mourning 2015 by Alice Wong: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2015/02/28/bay-area-day-of-mourning-alice-wong
No More by Norman Kunc: https://30daysofautism.blog/2015/03/02/no-more-asan-vancouver-disability-day-of-mourning/
You Get Proud By Practicing by Laura Hershey: thenthdegree.com/proudpoem.asp
Anti-Filicide Toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/projects/community/mourning/anti-filicide
Content Note: Filicide (disabled people being murdered by caretakers) will be discussed during this livestream.
This is the virtual Disability Day of Mourning Vigil. Here, we will spend the evening remembering those in our community lost to filicide, and reading the names of those lost.
Please be sure to turn on captions in the lower righthand side of the viewing window if you need them.
For more information about filicide and DDOM, check out the readings below. You can follow conversations about DDOM by checking out these hashtags:
#DDOM #DisabilityDayofMourning #DDOM2021
Readings:
Killing Words, by Zoe Gross: autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/killing-words
Connecting Dots by Bev Harp:aspergersquare8.blogspot.com/2012/05/badd-connecting-dots.html
In Memoriam by Squiditty: squiditty.tumblr.com/post/19869476380/in-memoriam
Memorial to Katherine (Katie) McCarron by Mel Baggs: ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/memorial-to-katherine-katie-mccarron
Letter To A Baby Who Was Thrown From A Bridge by Astra Milberg: mouthmag.com/bridgebaby.htm
I Am Not A Burden by Tuttle: turtleisaverb.blogspot.com/2014/02/i-am-not-burden-day-of-mourning-2014.html
Remember by Amy Sequenzia: ollibean.com/2013/12/17/remember
Not Human Anymore- Is This What "Ally" Means? on Autistic Hoya by Lydia Brown: autistichoya.com/2012/03/not-human-anymore-is-this-what-ally.html
I Do Believe This Is… by Savannah L. B.: crackedmirrorinshalott.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/i-do-believe-this-is
On Our Backs We Will Carry Them by Ari Ne’eman: autisticadvocacy.org/2015/02/on-our-backs-we-will-carry-them
Remarks at Day of Mourning 2015 by Alice Wong: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2015/02/28/bay-area-day-of-mourning-alice-wong
No More by Norman Kunc: https://30daysofautism.blog/2015/03/02/no-more-asan-vancouver-disability-day-of-mourning/
You Get Proud By Practicing by Laura Hershey: thenthdegree.com/proudpoem.asp
Anti-Filicide Toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/projects/community/mourning/anti-filicide
