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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
ADHD & Alternative and Augmented Communication
By Marie-Christine Lamy
- Topic LEAD
- Date 21 September 22
#CripTime
By Laura Pettenuzzo
Content Note: Contains Descriptions of Ableism in Education
- Topic LEAD
- Date 14 September 22
Living with Acquired Brain Injury
By Kerry
Content Note: Substance Abuse, Addiction, Medical Trauma.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 31 August 22
‘Our Accessibility Still Matters’: A Plea to Workplaces and Healthcare from the Disabled Community
By Zoe Simmons
Content Note: Descriptions of ableism
- Topic LEAD
- Date 11 July 22
Reproductive Choice
By Ferris Knight
Content Note: This post contains descriptions of medical violence, medical gaslighting, reproductive violence, suicide, ableism.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 7 June 22
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.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 23 May 22
Blindness is a Spectrum
By Bethany Cody
Content Note: This post includes descriptions of ableism and systemic discrimination.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 16 May 22
Invisible Autism – Growing up as an Autistic girl
By Gipsy Rugen
Content Note: This post includes descriptions of school bullying, PTSD, panic attacks, disability discrimination and their impacts on self-acceptance.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 9 May 22
Leadership and Decision-making: Empowering for Life
By Kerryn Burgoyne
Content Note: This post includes descriptions of ableism, psychiatric institutionalisation, restrictive practices and segregation.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 26 April 22
Disclosing Disability: An Important Step on the Road to Representation
By Katie Brebner Griffin
- Topic LEAD
- Date 11 April 22
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.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 14 March 22
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.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 7 March 22
How COVID is Affecting Me
By Leanne Claussen
Content Note: This post includes descriptions of COVID isolation.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 28 February 22
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.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 14 February 22
Blind and Vision Impaired Community Left Behind by COVID Testing
By Bethany Cody
Content Note: This post includes descriptions of ableism and COVID isolation.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 24 January 22
Why it’s Important to See Disabled Women as Leaders in Law
By Margherita Dall'Occo-Vaccaro
- Topic LEAD
- Date 17 January 22
How My Experience with Disability at University Enhanced My Career
By Katherine Ditchburn
- Topic LEAD
- Date 22 November 21
Speaking Out On Violence
By Deb Thomson
Content Note: This video includes descriptions of violence and abuse towards women with disability.
- Topic LEAD
- Date 11 November 21