Liberating Women With Disabilities
(ADAPT)
September 23, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC– [Excerpt] Today 300 ADAPT activists called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to liberate women with disabilities from institutions by supporting the Community Choice Act. We covered all the entrances at 1st and Constitution NW in DC where Pelosi was receiving the Alice Paul award at a luncheon. Alice Paul was a first wave feminist leader and the annual award is sponsored by the Sewell Belmont House.
68.4 % of all nursing home residents are women. You can bet they would rather be in their own homes with services and supports. Most are seniors and women with disabilities and definitely not rich. These women are not exactly on Speaker Pelosi’s high priority list.
Sadly these women are also not high on the priority list of most feminists. All the women in ADAPT and many women with disabilities around the country were stoked about today’s action. Most of us are feminists and would love to build links to a women’s movement that, for the most part, ignores us.
What’s the story here? Women with disabilities are among the most excluded and oppressed in the country. One would think the women’s movement would be all over us. Not.
Entire article:
Liberating Women with Disabilities
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2010/red/0923f.htm
Related:
Action Reflection (ADAPT)
http://www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/2010dof/report05.php
Planet of the Blind 
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
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Thank you so much for posting this! As a nursing home employee, I see so many daily indignities and “little abuses”. This is one of the most underreported areas of abuse against women.
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