Resources for Women and Girls with Disabilities Including Chronic Illnesses
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Disabled and Homeless on becoming homeless as a result of being unable to work due to a disabling illness and living in a homeless shelter while being seriously ill
Sick Chicks and Twisted Sisters a sister site to this one, feminist resource site by and for women and girls with disabilities was started by myself and a few friends, based, originally on an idea a friend of mine had for a group for disabled women with this name. The group no longer exists, except as an email list, but the website has been recently updated with more writing submitted by a diverse variety of women with disabilities online. This site has a page of general disaibility advocacy resources, a crisis help page, a mental health and psychiatric disabilities resources page, a page of resources on chronic immunological and neurological diseases (including CFIDS, FMS, MCS, and dysautonomia), a page of recommended books for women with disabilities, as well as poetry, rants, essays, and a little bit of research by women with disabilities on a number of different topics. Pay this site a visit, and if you like it feel free to copy the banner to link from your site. You can copy it there or here on this banner page. The email list Sick Chicks and Twisted Sisters, is now operated by other people who do not work on the website.
Fighterchick.Org is a site I came across recently that reminded me a bit of the sick chicks and twisted sisters site. It is another feminist site for women and girls dealing with physical challenges and disabilities with a large number of resources linked.
DAWN: DisAbled Women's Network of Canada is an excellent advocacy organization with an email list, and an extremely comprehensive web site full of some of valuable resources for disabled women, inluding a comprehensive set of links for disabled women better than any I have found online anywhere else. This is a great resource for disabled women everywhere on many issues related to living with a disability. This is the website of DAWN - Ontario, although there are a number of other DAWN branches throughout Canada.
Women with Disabilities from the National Women's Health Information Center has a huge collection of links and information for disabled women, particularly for American women. Such topics as financial assistance, sexuality, discrimination, abuse, disability related conditions, and others have entire pages here. I highly recommend this site for disabled women.
The Gimp Girl Community hosts four email groups for women with disabilities, specifically for queer women with disabiliites, and has some helpful info on their site for all disabled women. The email groups are for disabled women who are also lesbian, bisexual or transgendered.
Disabled Women on the Web has social history, body image information, and other resources for disabled women, including information on the upcoming Disablity Queer conference in 2004. This site was founded by a long-time advocate for the rights of women with disabilities, Corbette O'Toole
Ragged Edge Magazine was created by a disabled women with news for all disabled people. It is available online and in print.
Mouth Mag was also created by a disabled woman with news on disability rights and discrimination issues
New FIRE: The Feminist International Radio Endeavor has a page specifically for women with all types of disabilities, where you can find interviews by activist Laura Hershey and others, on many topics and how they relate to the lives of disabled women
New Whirlwind Women is a project involving women with disabilities in building wheelchairs
New Crip Commentary is the site of Laura Hershey, activist and author who has written many published articles on disabled women's issues
Resources for Women with Disabilities by Barbara Robertson
Abuse and Sexual Assault of Women with Disabilities
Deaf Women Against Violence is a unique organization which has a 24 Hour TTY hotline and links to other resources concerning abuse of deaf people
Deaf Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Look at the Issues is an article on an important topic, as women with disabilities, including deaf women are abused more often and are more likely to be victims of abuse and sexual assault, than non-disabled women, in a world where violence against women is already an epidemic.
MINCAVA: Abuse and Disabilities a page of articles and a couple of websites, linked in the MINCAVA violence database, at the University of Minnessota, all links on this page are related to people with disabilities
Please also see these related pages on violence and abuse, on this site:
Rape information and resources
Coping help pages for survivors of abuse on many aftereffects of child abuse, including sexual abuse and incest (this page has a large number of resources on the web on a large number of topics related to surviving abuse, and hotlines for crises)
