Blog posts Archive - Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)

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Disabled Fangirls: We are here, let us in!

April 24, 2024

Let me know if this photo is poor quality I have many more :)

Neurodivergent women face additional barriers to sustaining employment

March 25, 2024

Rainy Days

February 26, 2024

A Graduation Journey

February 12, 2024

Isolation and Epilepsy

December 7, 2023

Image of Ashleigh with purple glasses standing in a bookshop. She has a long sleeved blue top on and has brown hair, and she is white.

Love on the Spectrum TV Program

October 16, 2023

Embracing my disabled identity

October 2, 2023

Image of Ashleigh with purple glasses standing in a bookshop. She has a long sleeved blue top on and has brown hair, and she is white.

Chronic pelvic pain: the fire within me.

September 21, 2023

a stock image of a woman with her hair tied up in a messy bun and she is scrunching her hair on her head. The photo is in black and white.

The Sisterhood of Chronic Pain

September 8, 2023

Two feminine featured people are looking at the camera smiling. My sister, on the left, has her arm around my shoulders. She’s wearing a black crop top and a long black flowing skirt. I’m wearing a black and green t-shirt and brown pin-striped pants. Behind us are tall gum trees

Looking after BOTH the Environment AND your Mental Health

August 31, 2023

[Image: Black background with a stock image of the Earth in space taken by NASA.]

What The Hidden Disability Sunflower Initiative Means to Me – A Woman with Chronic Illness.

August 21, 2023

A young woman with short brown hair is sitting inside a train with yellow and blue seats in the background. She is smiling and wearing a bright green and yellow hidden disability sunflower lanyard and badge.

Inefficiency is Causing a Health Crisis for Everyone

July 18, 2023

Woman in a grey dress leans on a seat in a darkened hospital waiting room. Her expression is deadpan and forlorn.

Things that make you go hmmm…

June 12, 2023

A photo of a blue and white disability parking sign. The background of the sign is blue. There is a white wheelchair symbol with the word Parking underneath. Below that is a white arrow pointing to the left.

We Need to Talk About Autistic Burnout

June 2, 2023

A mixed-race, medium-skinned woman in her mid-twenties. She has dark brown hair in a half-up half-down style, and is wearing a white button-up shirt.

Reclaiming my identity as a young stroke survivor

May 17, 2023

A photo of Nicola, a woman in her twenties, smiling with medium length brown hair and brown eyes. Nicola is wearing a black hat and skirt, and a white shirt with a red and blue checked button up over the top, tied at her waist. Nicola is standing in a park, with green grass and big, leafy trees in the background behind her.

Unscheduled: Art Exhibition on Women’s Experiences of Involuntary Treatment

May 8, 2023

A framed written artwork on a gallery wall, showing labels given to women with mental health conditions

Self-worth in an Inaccessible Education System

April 12, 2023

[Image: Young girl wearing all black sitting cross-legged with an exhibit of her art behind her.]

First Round of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

April 3, 2023

A model of one hemisphere of the human brain and a neuron

Living with OCD and a cat

March 14, 2023

Alternative Text: A sleeping tabby cat named Remy is pictured sleeping on a grey blanket

Disabled women are over-employed and underfunded.

March 1, 2023

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