Across Borders

Women with Disabilities Working Together

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The women with disabilities movement is at the forefront of partnership and cooperation internationally, Across Borders: Women with Disabilities Working Together portrays the multi-faceted work by women with disabilities from the developed and developing world. Through literacy and economic development projects, and community organizing, women with disabilities collaborate to improve their standard of living and create new opportunities for themselves and their communities. Political activism combines with personal stories in these topical accounts from around the world. Across Borders illustrates how women can learn from each other and grow together - across many kinds of borders
Introduction / Diane Driedger, Irene Feika and Eileen Giron Batres
Emerging from the Shadows: Women with Disabilities Organize / Diane Driedger
Women First, Disability Afterwards: The Combined Disabilities Association Women's Group / Monica Bartley
I Have Been Born Again/He Vuelto a Nacer / Keny Aviles
Snapshot from Beijing / Karla Krissel Rivas Rivas
Women with Disabilities: The Final Frontier! / Irene Feika
Who Am I / Joyce Joseph
Melancholy/Melancolia / Ruth Rodriguez
Passion Fruit / K-Lynn
To Speak is Empowering: Literacy Project for Women with Disabilities in El Salvador / Eileen Ciron Batres
Poem to a Body/Poema De Un Cuerpo / Eileen Ciron Batres
Rhythms and Heartbeats: A Poetry Workshop / Eudalie Wickham
A Poet's Thought / Eudalie Wickham
Confession / Maritza Melara Castillo
I Have Potential / Donna M. Sinclair
Snapshot from Beijing / Maomy Ruth Esiba
Life in Trinidad and Tobago / Lorraine Thomas