Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Content Warning: fillicide
What is the Day of Mourning?
Every year on March 1st, the disability community comes together to remember the victims of filicide – people with disabilities murdered by their family members. Vigils are held on the Day of Mourning in cities around the world.
We will spend the evening remembering those in our community lost to filicide, and reading the names of those lost.
For more information about filicide and DDOM, check out the readings below. You can follow conversations about DDOM by checking out these hashtags:
#DDOM #DDOM2025 #DisabilityDayofMourning
Anti-Filicide Toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/anti-filicide
Readings:
Killing Words, by Zoe Gross: autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/killing-words
Connecting Dots by Bev Harp: 8square8.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: withasmoothroundstone.tumblr.com/post/87899870270/letter-to-a-baby-who-was-thrown-from-a-bridge
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/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: laurahershey.com/?p=340
Anti-Filicide Toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/anti-filicide
Content Warning: fillicide
What is the Day of Mourning?
Every year on March 1st, the disability community comes together to remember the victims of filicide – people with disabilities murdered by their family members. Vigils are held on the Day of Mourning in cities around the world.
We will spend the evening remembering those in our community lost to filicide, and reading the names of those lost.
For more information about filicide and DDOM, check out the readings below. You can follow conversations about DDOM by checking out these hashtags:
#DDOM #DDOM2025 #DisabilityDayofMourning
Anti-Filicide Toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/anti-filicide
Readings:
Killing Words, by Zoe Gross: autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/killing-words
Connecting Dots by Bev Harp: 8square8.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: withasmoothroundstone.tumblr.com/post/87899870270/letter-to-a-baby-who-was-thrown-from-a-bridge
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/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: laurahershey.com/?p=340
Anti-Filicide Toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/anti-filicide
