RESOURCES
BY DISABLED WOMEN
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DAWN Canada - DAWN Canada is a national organization controlled by and
comprised of women who self-identify as Women with disAbilities.
We are from all backgrounds and all disAbilities
DAWN Ontario - DAWN Ontario has an amazing, resource-packed website. They are a progressive, volunteer-driven, feminist organization promoting social justice, gender equality, human rights and the advancement of equality rights of disAbled women through education, research, advocacy, coalition-building, resource development, and information & communication technology.
DEW Research
Disabled Women’s Alliance
Queer Ladies, Girlies and Queer Girlies
Riva Lehrer
Sick Chicks and Twisted Sisters resource page
Women with Disabilities, Australia
OTHER WEBSITES
American Indian Institute
Center for Women Policy Studies [type “disabled” in the search box on their site for best results]
Disability World online magazine (Spanish & English)
Disability Studies Quarterly
Independent Living Institute offers resources for persons with extensive disabilities and develops consumer-driven policies for self-determination, self-respect and dignity. They have the best international library on disability on the web.
Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal
Women’s Studies: Resources and Empowerment for Women and Girls
DISABLED WOMEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
- Judy Brewer, advocacy and activism
- Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Disability Studies
- Sylvia Caras, advocacy and activism, health
- Judi Chamberlain, health
- Eli Clare, lesbian/queer issues
- Mairian Corker, Disability Studies
- Theresia Degener, economics and employment
- Tanis Doe, Disability Studies, violence
- Remat Fazelbhoy, international
- Anne Finger, writer
- Shanor Forbes and Ranjana Kulkarni, international
- LaDonna Fowler, Native American activist
- Terry Galloway, performer, writer, director, lesbian/queer issues
- Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Disability Studies
- Carol Gill, Disability Studies, health
- Kath Gillespie-Sells, sexuality
- Eileen Giron, international
- Claudia Gordon, Black deaf female attorney
- Cheryl Green, Dean of Resource and Community Development at Eastfield College
- Lucy Gwin, advocacy and activism
- Barbara Hardaway, costume/make-up artist and set designer
- Laura Hershey, advocacy and activism, writer, lesbian/queer issues
- Judith Heumann, World Bank Adviser on Disability and Development
- Alexandra Jefferds, young women with disabilities
- Alison Kafer, Disability Studies
- Megan Kirshbaum & Judi Rogers, parenting
- Riva Lehrer, painter
- Victoria Ann Lewis, performer, teacher
- Tekki Lomnicki, writer, performer, director
- Lizzie Longsho, international
- Nancy Mairs, writer
- Kathy Martinez, Disability Management Consultant
- Linda Mona, sexuality
- Linda Montgomery, photographer
- McClaine Musheka, international
- Safi Na Nairobi, photographer, poet
- Susan Nussbaum, playwright, actor, director
- Corbett Joan O’Toole, lesbian/queer issues
- Margaret Orach, international
- Judy Panko-Reis, health
- Jean Parker, radio producer and interviewer, international
- Farhat Rehman, international
- Harilyn Rousso, education, young women
- Carrie Sandahl, Disability Studies
- Eleanor Smith, advocacy and activism
- Julia “Dolphin” Trahan, performer, lesbian/queer issues
- Sarah Triano, young women with disabilities
- Ayesha Vernon, writer on race and disability
- Cheryl Marie Wade, poet, playwright, performer
- Sylvia Walker, Disability Studies
- Michele Wates, parenting
- Barbara Waxman Fiduccia, feminism
- Sandra Welner, M.D., health
- Susan Wendell, feminism
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