10.8% of all Australians identified as carers in the 2018 Australian Census. That is approximately 2.65 million people! And yet, Erin–who was a Disability Support Worker for five years and is a...
Being an autistic woman in a non-autistic world
What's it like to realise you're autistic? And how do you start to ask the world around you to accept that? Sandra Thom-Jones explores theses questions in her new book 'Growing in to Autism' -...
The NDIS is letting women with disabilities down
You’d think that the National Disability Insurance (NDIS) scheme would be equally as accessible to men and women. But our new research suggests this isn’t the case. Only 37% of participants in the...
Oh yes, Britney Spears. Disabled women hear you.
Britney Spears. We’ve all heard bits and pieces about her fight to regain guardianship of herself from her father. In the US they call this conservatorship and according to the BBC, it is...
Homeschooling as feminist resistance
You read that title and choked, right? That’s because, when you think about homeschoolers, you probably think of a conservative family trying to shelter their kids from the pernicious influence of...
Training for a 2032 inclusion Olympics starts now
It’s not new to anyone that the Olympics has a bit of an issue when it comes to gender equality. John Coates’ treatment of Annastacia Palaszczuk at the moment of triumph was a textbook example of...