What’s been happening generally is why this year’s theme is Weird Pride in a Hostile World. This is a page about what happened for Weird Pride Day 2026.
There is always an open invitation for anyone to share their thoughts and experiences relating to being (or being seen as) weird, as described on our front page. The Weird Pride feed and user on Bluesky collect relevant posts; you could also try #WeirdPride or #WeirdPrideDay on other platforms.
Some writing from this year:
- Celebrating Weird Workplaces
- Maybe what we really need is a Window of Safety
- Spotlight on Weird Pride Day
- The world needs weird
Also a translation:
Aside from that, we had four events this year, with one more hopefully coming later.
Two separate discussions were being pre-recorded, and premiered on YouTube on the day, with a third postponed.
- Writing Weirdness, with Robin Ince, Kate Fox, Joanne Limburg and Sonny Hallett
- Monstrous Pride with Surekha Davies, Elizabeth Ito, Sumita Majumdar and Nat Paterson, chaired by Fergus Murray
- Weird Wonderings with David Gray-Hammond, Bobbi Elman, Helen Edgar, Sofia Farzana of SEMA, and Marion McLaughlin (postponed).
Helen Edgar and David Gray-Hammond gave a talk on “Weird Pride and Neuroqueering from Liminal Spaces: Building belonging, advocacy, collective power, and
resistance from the margins” as part of the Neurodiversity is More Than… conference, which also featured several other relevant talks.
AMASE and Stimpunks co-hosted free online Lightning Talks, live on the day. You can watch previous Lightning Talks in this Weird Pride YouTube playlist.
