Poems and Stories from Women With Disabilities

If you are a woman with a disability and would like to have your poems or personal stories included on this page, please send them to Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) at: wwda@wwda.org.au

Personal Stories from Women With Disabilities

Family Picnic - By Peggy Bogar [Word Version] [PDF Version]

Motherhood and genetic screening: a personal perspective - By Fiona Place [HTML Version] [PDF Version]

'Perfect in My Imperfection' - By Lina Pane

My CVA - Stroke - By Tanya Pascale

Poppy the Assistance Dog

'Women and Disability: An Issue'- A Collection of writings by women with disabilities. Produced by the Melbourne based Women with Disabilities Feminist Collective.

'Disability and Sexuality - My Story' - By Janet Simpson (2003)

'Underlying Expectations: Personal experience of being a NESB woman with a disability'- by Lina Pane-Hawkins (2000)

'To Trachey or Not to Trachey? That is the Question'- by Michelle La Fontaine (1999)

'Wine, Bed and Roses'- by Phyllis Rappaport (1999)

Poems by Women with Disabilities

The Midnight Quiet

I Don't Want to Play

Sharp As A Tack

Where There is Life

Why Can't They Hear Me

Saddened Explosion

Perfect Dreaming

What Do You See Nurses?

My Autistic Son

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