Month-Long Observances
- Disability Pride Month
- South Asian Heritage Month (July 18-August 17)
Religious or Cultural Observances
- Canada Day (7/1), Canadian national observance
- Martyrdom of the Báb (7/10), Bahá’í
- Tisha B’Av (7/22–7/23), Jewish
- Ashura (7/25–7/26), Islamic
- Guru Purnima (7/29), Hindu, Buddhist, Jain
- Asalha Puja / Dhamma Day (7/29, dates may vary), Buddhist
Dates of Significance
- Independence Day (7/4)
- World Population Day (7/11)
- International Non-Binary Day (7/14)
- La Fête Nationale / Bastille Day (7/14)
- Nelson Mandela International Day (7/18)
- National Disability Independence Day (7/26)
- World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (7/30)
- International Day of Friendship (7/30)
Library Resources
Links shared are ebooks, all others are physical resources in our Behind the Eyes Collection.
Month-Long Observances
Disability Pride Month
- Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau
- About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomas
- Disabled Voices Anthology edited by sb.smith
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare
- Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
- People with Disability edited by Justin Healey
- Disability Histories by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis
- Disability Pride : Dispatches From a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin
Indian, South Asian, and Desi Heritage Month (July 18-August 17)
- Here to Stay: Uncovering South Asian American History by Geetika Rudra
- How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging by Anupama Jain
Religious or Cultural Observances
Canada Day (7/1), Canadian national observance
- Canada Day by Janine Ungvarsky
Tisha B’Av (7/22–7/23), Jewish
- Tisha B’Av by Salem Press Encyclopedia
Dates of Significance
Independence Day (7/4)
- Independence Day by Salem Press Encyclopedia
World Population Day (7/11)
- World Population Day by Salem Press Encyclopedia
International Non-Binary Day (7/14)
- Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders by Christina Richards, Walter Pierre Bouman, and Meg-John Barker
- The Real Lives of Transgender and Nonbinary Humans by Publish Your Purpose and Brandi Lai
Bastille Day (7/14)
- Bastille Day by Michael Ruth
Nelson Mandela International Day (7/18)
- Nelson Mandela by Michael W. Willaims
- Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction by Elleke Boehmer
- Mandela by Martin Meredith
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (7/30)
- Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States by Denise Brennan
- Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex, Gender, and Culture in the Law by Alicia W. Peters
- Human Trafficking by Cynthia Veja
