Sick Chicks and Twisted Sisters: Resources for Women and Girls with Disabilities

Site Index

Open the Firedoor:

Read Our Words

Read poetry, essays, opinions, thoughts, research, and personal life accounts by women with disAbilities.

Our Writing Index

Books

An Empowering Book Excerpt on the language used to describe women with disabilities

Recommended Books List

Resources

Crisis Help Center:

Resources for disabled women who are suicidal, survivors of abuse and assault, and/or isolated

Disability Advocacy and Information: General and topic-specific resources

Economic Rights: resources on affordable housing, homelessness, poverty, welfare,and financial assistance

Psychiatric Conditions and Mental Health resources on psychiatric disabilities, learning disabilities, psychological disorders, addictions, and advocacy, recently updated

Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases:

CFIDS/ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Fibromyalgia, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities,

Dysautomia (NMH/POTS), and related conditions

Gynecological Disorders and Diseases

including viruses, cancers, and other illnesses (New)

Autoimmune Diseases (new)

Other Disabilities

Phone numbers and websites on a variety of specific disabilities (in progress)

International Groups:

Women with disabilities worldwide (in progress)

Email List:

Guidelines

Web Site:

Updates

Web Rings:

Great New Webrings

Webrings Page 2

equal rights

equal treatment

equal access

equality

We, the people who have worked on this web site, and the email list(s) connected to it, are women disabled by chronic illnesses who believe in the importance of equality and empowerment for women and girls with physical and psychiatric/mental disabilities/challenges/different abilities.

If you are isolated by a disability, please know that you are not alone. Your life is important, and matters.

Never accept anything less than the equality and respect you deserve.

Update, February 2008!

We now have another sister site. DAISIES: Dedicated Advocacy, Individual Support, Independence, and Education for Schizophrenia and Related Disorders was founded by Jen of Sick Chicks and Twisted Sisters last year. It has an online support group for people with mental illnesses. If you are dealing with a psychiatric disability, check it out.

As always, our other sister site is Feminist Resources for Women and Girls. Check that out for information on many issues that affect women's lives!