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 WWDA at: wwda@wwda.org.au

Personal Stories from Women With Disabilities

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

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

Bad Day

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

Dream On

What Do You See Nurses?

My Life

I Remember

A Poem

The Beam

My Autistic Son

Wet Lips


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This site was developed by Carolyn Frohmader for Women With Disabilities Australia.