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Living with OCD and a cat

By Georgie Waters

Content Note: Contains discussions about mental health

  • Date 14 March 23

Disabled women are over-employed and underfunded.

By Elena Filipczyk

  • Date 1 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

Wheelie Good

By Amber Dennis

Content Note: Mentions death and grief.

Why Autistic Friendship for women is Suicide prevention

By Sarah Langston

Content Note: Suicide, sexual violence and medical gaslighting.

Empowering others to love themselves

By Tabitha Page

Content Note: This post contains descriptions of: Medical Gaslighting & Ableism.

Leadership

By Breagh Gregory

On Doing Your Own Thing

By Amelia Saward

ADHD & Alternative and Augmented Communication

By Marie-Christine Lamy

#CripTime

By Laura Pettenuzzo

Content Note: Contains Descriptions of Ableism in Education

Living with Acquired Brain Injury

By Kerry

Content Note: Substance Abuse, Addiction, Medical Trauma.

Working with mental illness

By Cheryl

Content Note: Mental illness

Reproductive Choice

By Ferris Knight

Content Note: This post contains descriptions of medical violence, medical gaslighting, reproductive violence, suicide, ableism.

Survival is Productivity, Right?

By Tabitha Lean | Budhin Mingaan

Content Note: This post contains coarse language and descriptions of PTSD, trauma, abuse, sexual violence, carceral violence, self-harm and suicide.

Blindness is a Spectrum

By Bethany Cody

Content Note: This post includes descriptions of ableism and systemic discrimination.

Invisible Autism – Growing up as an Autistic girl

By Anonymous

Content Note: This post includes descriptions of school bullying, PTSD, panic attacks, disability discrimination and their impacts on self-acceptance.

Leadership and Decision-making: Empowering for Life

By Kerryn Burgoyne

Content Note: This post includes descriptions of ableism, psychiatric institutionalisation, restrictive practices and segregation.

Bringing Disability Pride to Sydney

By Hannah Solomons and Jane Scott

Far North COVID: The Pandemic ‘We Had To Have’, or, Life in Unofficial Lockdown

By Dee Harvester

Content Note: This post includes descriptions of medical trauma, ableism, and eugenics. Please note, as a long-form essay, the estimated reading time of this blog post is 12 minutes.

The Future of Neurodivergence: Gender Bias and Hopes for the Upcoming DSM-5 Update

By Annie Crowe

Content Note: This post includes descriptions of sexual assault and complex mental health. Pathologising language, ableism and discriminatory stereotypes are also referenced due to the nature of the medical model of disability being discussed. Please note, as a long-form essay, the estimated reading time of this blog post is 18 minutes.

How COVID is Affecting Me

By Leanne Claussen

Content Note: This post includes descriptions of COVID isolation.

Gaslit by the Government – COVID as a Disabled Musician

By Jennifer Hankin (The Emerald Ruby)

Content Note: This post includes descriptions of burn out, medical/ableist gaslighting and the death of a pet.