ALT A graphic with a brush-stroke background in layered ochre, orange and brown tones. There is a cream central panel with a hand-stitched/dashed border effect and logos aligned along the bottom.Text reads: “Disabled Women & Poverty: The Cost of Exclusion. Participant Feedback Part 6”.(Logos visible: Disability Participation News Hub, DWI, End Poverty, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – 17 October, Government of Ireland / Department of Social Protection)

ALT A graphic with a brush-stroke background in layered ochre, orange and brown tones. A large cream panel with a dashed, hand-stitched border sits centrally. Text reads: “Question 6: What would help disabled women, girls and non-binary / genderqueer / gender non-conforming people get social welfare, earn money and/or find a good job and keep it?”

ALT A graphic with a brush-stroke background in layered ochre, orange and brown tones. The design features overlapping paper-notes pinned and clipped in place. Text reads: “access to mainstream education and compulsory DET in schools and workplaces etc, as mentioned previously, cost of disability payment” “Employability Service needs to be better. Plus access to training especially allowing people to work from home” “Being able to actually speak to the deciding officer would be a start. I requested an interview with Disability Allowance and it was denied” “More confidence, support and just believing in us as we dont believe in ourselves. Misogyny and the Patriarchy are huge barriers.”

ALT A graphic with a purple brush-stroke background. In the centre is a large cream rectangle with a dashed, hand-stitched–style border. Inside, black text reads: “Disabled Women & Poverty: The Cost of Exclusion – Participant Feedback – Part 4.” Along the bottom of the slide, on a light strip, are logos for: Disability Participation News Hub, DWI, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the Department of Social Protection.

ALT A cream rectangular box with a dashed, hand-stitched–style border on a purple brush-stroke background. The text inside reads: “Question 4: Compared to disabled men or non-disabled women is it harder for disabled women, girls and non-binary/genderqueer/gender non-conforming people to earn money? What makes it more difficult for this group specifically?”

ALT A graphic with purple brush-stroke background featuring four paper note graphics. A blue rectangular note with a paperclip reads: “Pressure to provide combined with heightened risk of financial abuse.” A bright green square note taped at the top reads: “risk of losing hard won supports that keep the head above water.” A white curled paper note pinned with a blue pushpin reads: “women often have caring responsibilities and disabled women are no different.” A peach note with an orange paperclip reads: “Caring/parenting, meeting own needs and lack of genuine flexible employment lead to burnout or exclusion from workforce entirely.”

ALT Artwork created on canvas. A red heart with a black crack down the middle is drawn at the centre. Surrounding the heart is a dense circle of small colourful dots in blue, pink, orange, purple, green, and brown. A light blue wash of colour surrounds the dotted circle against a white canvas background.

ALT Artwork created on canvas. The design features layered, petal-like shapes outlined in black, radiating outward. Inside the shapes are clusters of smaller forms filled with bright colours including orange, yellow, teal, blue, and green. The background is a white canvas texture.

ALT Artwork created on canvas. A hand-drawn black maze fills the centre. At the middle of the maze is a green euro (€) symbol. Along the maze pathways, small handwritten words and phrases appear, including: “No support,” “Forms,” “Disability,” “Accessible,” “Services,” “Time,” “Appointments,” “Travelling,” “Discrimination,” “Medical,” “Long wait,” “No interpreter,” “Bills,” “Jobseekers,” “Phonecalls,” “Transport,” and “Housing.” Outside the maze, at the top are two small stick figures walking. On the left side, a small arrow points to the word “Jobs,” and on the right side, another arrow points to “Supports.” At the bottom, purple text reads “ENDLESS LABOUR OF ACCESS.” Colourful spiral designs decorate each corner of the canvas.

ALT Artwork created on canvas. The centre features the large hand-drawn letters “ISL” in blue, with a small green shamrock above it and two small red hearts on either side. Beneath “ISL,” smaller text reads “Irish Sign Languages.” Surrounding the central text are individual handwritten words and short phrases in various colours, spaced randomly around the canvas. The words include: “Equal,” “Women,” “Health,” “Violation,” “Limited,” “Human right,” “Deaf,” “Mental health,” “Work,” “Wellbeing,” “Education,” “Access,” “Choice,” “Interpreter,” and “Freedom.” The canvas background is off-white with a visible fabric texture.

ALT The universe honours brave. Today, if you share who you are, the costs of disability, the costs of exclusion or the barriers to your employment for the first time, the second or the tenth, we will witness your courage and hear your words. Being who we are in a an ever tightening neuronormative world is living courage.

ALT There are so many people, spaces and places that seek to diminish our unique voices, to control and define the boundaries in which we exist, the way in which we live, to determine the limits of our needs, the level of supports, the finance available or lack thereof, the levels of accessibility that could enable us or disable us to participate fully and easily in all parts of life.

ALT We are women. We are disabled women and non-binary people. Our needs matter. Our autonomy matters. We can determine our own truth. If or when we need support, we can ask. Supports need to meet us where we are. They need to be appropriate, timely, available and easily accessible. Let us name the supports we need. Let us speak about the cost of disability and gender, about parenting, disability and gender about enabling financial independence for disabled women and non-binary people.

ALT Let us share our lived experiences, name the obstacles we meet, the systemic barriers, the infringements on our liberty, the fences we must climb or tear down just to be. Let us name the everyday invisible sufferings, the tasks that challenge us, the barriers that fence us out of employment and of full participation in life. Let us name the words that harm us, gaslight us and reduce our beings to depersonalised, voiceless statistics.

ALT A promotional graphic titled “Disabled Women & Poverty: Online Survey.” The design features purple text, abstract shapes, and a pink-and-purple computer illustration. Logos for DWI (Disabled Women Ireland), the Disability Participation News Hub, the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, and the Department of Social Protection appear at the bottom. Text states: “Open until: 14th November.”

ALT A group of people sit behind a table in a room in the Irish government