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Speech performed at the #Metoo conference in Reykjavík on the 18th of September 2018 Anna Sigrún Ingimarsdóttir, doctoral student in disability studies and a social worker The #metoo movement initiated waves of fires when women on a global scale started to open up about experiences of sexual violence, an…
‘Now we are just talking about gender’: disabled women as killjoys and troublemakers in feminist movements (#MeTooReykjavik)
Speech performed at the #Metoo conference in Reykjavík on the 18th of September 2018 Freyja Haraldsdóttir Sara Ahmed, an independent feminist scholar and writer, has in her literature taught us about the feminist killjoy and the female troublemaker and I want to talk about them today. In short, a feminist…
The weeds of shame
Author: Jana Birta Björnsdóttir, Msc in Biomedical science and member of Tabu Let’s go back to the year 1994, I’m out shopping with my mom. The shoe aisle grabs my attention and I forget myself admiring beautiful pairs of shoes. After a while I look up and see a lady looking…
Taking care of ourselves and being revolutionary: Perspectives on International Disability Activism Across Intersections
Written by Freyja Haraldsdóttir Presented at: Perspectives on International Disability Activism Across Intersections Disability Intersectionality Summit 2018 Pre-Conference Event Friday 17 August 2018, Boston, Massachusetts, Northeastern University School of Law —- I want to begin by thanking Lydia X. Z. Brown and all the other organizers of this pre-conference for…
Tabú’s testimony on domestic violence against people with disability
Domestic Violence Against People with Disability Brussels, European Parliament, 31st of January 2017 Presentation from Tabú (Iceland) – Embla Guðrúnar Ágústsdóttir and Freyja Haraldsdóttir My name is Embla and I don’t know if a have experienced domestic violence. I identify as a disabled lesbian and every single day I experience…
‘You must be tired!’: multiple oppression and disabled women’s fight for civil rights
‘You must be tired’ – he said as he stood there with his hair all messed up, his tie loose and his shirt wrinkled. In his face I could read a mixture of pity and amazement. It was my first week as a vice parliamentarian in 2013 and it was…