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Disabled Fangirls: We are here, let us in!
By Ashleigh Keating
Content Note: Hospital visits and disability discrimination
- Date 24 April 24
Neurodivergent women face additional barriers to sustaining employment
By Justine Field
Content Note: references to workplace bullying
- Date 25 March 24
Isolation and Epilepsy
By Ashleigh Meikle
Content Note: Mentions of suicide, mental health, ableism, isolation.
- Date 7 December 23
Embracing my disabled identity
By Ashleigh Meikle
Content Note: Themes of ableism, internalised ableism and discrimination, discussions of mental health and anxiety.
- Date 2 October 23
Chronic pelvic pain: the fire within me.
By Sophie Cusworth
Content Note: This blog contains discussions of pain and themes of medical gaslighting.
- Date 21 September 23
The Sisterhood of Chronic Pain
By Grace Hall
Content Note: This piece alludes to medical gaslighting.
- Date 8 September 23
Looking after BOTH the Environment AND your Mental Health
By Georgie Waters
Content Note: Contains discussions about mental health issues
- Date 31 August 23
What The Hidden Disability Sunflower Initiative Means to Me – A Woman with Chronic Illness.
By Kate May Ditchburn
Content Note: This post contains themes of ableism.
- Date 21 August 23
Inefficiency is Causing a Health Crisis for Everyone
By Kerry Martin Millan
Content Note: This post contains descriptions of mental health crisis, mention of emotional breakdowns.
- Date 18 July 23
Things that make you go hmmm…
By Esther Cremona
Content Note: Themes of ableism, ableist behaviour
- Date 12 June 23
We Need to Talk About Autistic Burnout
By Phoebe Lupton
Content Note: References to ableism, mental ill-health and suicidal ideation
- Date 2 June 23
Reclaiming my identity as a young stroke survivor
By Nicola Bray
Content Note: This blog contains discussions of ageism.
- Date 17 May 23
Unscheduled: Art Exhibition on Women’s Experiences of Involuntary Treatment
By Monique Moate
Content Note: Includes discussions of mental health and institutionalisation.
- Date 8 May 23
Self-worth in an Inaccessible Education System
By Gipsy Rugen
Content Note: Discussions of self-worth, ableism and internalised ableism.
- Date 12 April 23
First Round of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
By Monique Moate
Content Note: This post includes discussions of mental illness.
- Date 3 April 23
Living with OCD and a cat
By Georgie Waters
Content Note: Contains discussions about mental health
- Date 14 March 23
Why women aren’t being diagnosed with ADHD until now.
By Kerry Martin Millan
Content Note: Misdiagnosis, medical gaslighting, trauma, emotional abuse, mental illness
- Date 14 February 23
Growing up with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
By Georgie Waters
Content Note: Mental health difficulties, depression, self-harm
- Date 1 February 23
Why Autistic Friendship for women is Suicide prevention
By Sarah Langston
Content Note: Suicide, sexual violence and medical gaslighting.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 20 December 22
Empowering others to love themselves
By Tabitha Page
Content Note: This post contains descriptions of: Medical Gaslighting & Ableism.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 11 November 22