3/21/25 - Friday Video Share: NO DECISION WITHOUT US | World Down Syndrome Day 2025
Today is World Down Syndrome Day. Time for a new video!
NO DECISION WITHOUT US | World Down Syndrome Day 2025
CoorDown - March 13, 2025
Here's this year's World Down Syndrome Day from CoorDown, an Italian Down syndrome organization that has been producing innovative, impactful, and empowering videos like this each March for the occasion. That's quite an accomplishment. It's not as common as it should be for "disability awareness" videos to be truly fun and positive. The historical record leans more towards tragic and pitiable – ultimately degrading and exploitative of disabled people, not liberating. Things aren't as terrible these days as they were when "poster children" and cringey telethons were the norm. But it's still worth celebrating campaigns like this one, that really have something to say and center the people they are intended to support.
For a bonus, here is last year's World Down Syndrome Day video:
Have an excellent weekend!
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