The Hidden World of Women

20/07/2024

July is Disability Pride Month! The time to be celebrate peoples accomplishments, feel greif and frustration in community and to become more aware of the ways people can make the world more accessible.

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1. Header reads "July is disability Pride month." The image is the disability pride flag
2. Text Reads: "Disability Pride Month began in 1990 to celebrate the Americans with Disabilities act." The image is four physically disabled people: an amputee with a silver prosthetic arm, a blind woman using a cane and sunglasses, a woman in a wheelchair and a below the knee amputee wearing a running blade.
3. Text Reads: "It celebrates not only the contributions of disabled peoples fight for equal rights." The image is five people who we can assume are disabled, one woman is a servicedog user, a man is stood next to a woman with her arm around his shoulders, a woman is holding a tablet of some kind, and at the front of the group is a young girl in a wheelchair.
4. Text reads: "It gives people the space to celebrate their victories and to know they're not alone in their struggles." The image is a trio of physically disabled people: a blind woman using a cane, a man in a wheelchair and another man holding onto the wheelchair handle while he throws his crutch in the air.
5. Text reads "The movement is world wide. The flag colours represent aspects of the community." The flag colours are lined up with their meanings written on them.
Green: Sensory disabilities like being deaf and blind
Blue: emotional and psychiatric disabilities, including mental illness, anxiety, and depression
White: invisible disabilities and disabilities that haven't yet been diagnosed
Gold: Neurodiversities
Red: Physical disabilities
6. Bold text reads "Happy Pride Month." The disability pride flag is underneath.

15/05/2024

May is EDS Awareness Month! We interviewed Phillipa Pember to ask about her experiences with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. One of the things mentioned in the episode was using mobility aids. Some people feel like they aren't in "enough pain" to use an aid. If you think you'd benefit from an aid it's worth trying!

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1. The outline of a head, in the skull there are love hearts around a cane to show the person is thinking about it . The person has a speech bubble coming out of their mouth. It says "I'm not in that much pain."
2. Cartoons of a walker, mobility scooter and crutches. In bold writing the text says "People who don't need mobility aids don't fantasise about using them."

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12/05/2024

Happy Mother's Day to all Mums! We love and appreciate you so much! We hope today is restful and that you make wonderful memories!

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1. A tweet that reads "Accidentally said Happy Mother's Day to my mom instead of writing a paragraph on social media."
2. A ring of daisies surrounding the words "Happy Mother's Day"
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25/04/2024

Today we take the time to remember and honour the men and women who have served and are serving our countrry.
We thank them for their bravery and sacrifice.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
Lest we forget.

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Two poppies on a white background.
The text reads "Lest we forget" and "At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."

19/04/2024

Emma asked Penny why she includes image descriptions in her posts.

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Captioning for the podcast audio, with a frame around the captions.

17/04/2024

In our podcast episode with Penny she talked about assistive technology for blind and visually impaired people. One way we can all help make the world more accessible is by including descriptions of the photos we post on social media. This post is a quick guide on how to do that.

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1. A blue page with white writing. It includes the text above.
2. A blue page with five cirles in our brand colours. Each Circle contains a different phrase. The text says "Good Image Description includes." "Who is in the image", "The expression", "The colours", "The surrounding areas" and "Interesting features".
3. An example of what ALT text can look like. There is a picture of a family captioned with "A family of three. The son is on the Dads shoulders, while the Mum has her arms around Dads waist. Both parents look at their son. The son kisses dad’s forehead. The background is a cloudy sky."
4. Another example of what ALT text can look like. There is a picture of a corgi captioned "A smiling Corgi wearing a pink harness. It is walking next to a body of water in a park."
5. A blue page with white writing. The text says "Try adding image descriptions to your next post and tell us how it goes!"

15/04/2024

Thank you Penny for being a guest on the podcast!

The latest episode of the podcast is out, speaking with Penny about her experiences of living with vision impairment (blind) since birth. There is so much that I had never considered!

The latest instalment of The Hidden world of Women is a two part episode with Penny focusing on living as a visually impaired person. Penny is a mother of 5 children who doesn’t let having been blind since birth stop her doing anything! While being blind in a world made for sighted comes with its ...

10/03/2024

It’s Brain Awareness Week: one of our earlier episodes was with Lisa speaking about her brain aneurysm and stroke https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4nysb-109af9e. Thanks Lisa for sharing your story!

In this episode Emma speaks with Lisa about her experiences with a brain aneurysm and subsequent stroke and her journey to recovery. We are sharing this episode in the lead up to national stroke week, the 2-8th August, As always I want to thank Lisa for sharing so openly about her ex...

10/03/2024

Continuing International Women's Day by Talking about Dame Roma Mitchell. The first woman on South Australia's Supreme Court.

08/03/2024

Happy International Women's Day. Here's the names of some of the women who helped create a more equal world for us. Everyone can make a difference and the list is far longer than this video. Please leave more important women in the comments so we can talk about them.

08/03/2024

Thank you so much Lacey Filipich for answering my call for a conversation partner for the episode of The Hidden World of Women .

I was waiting for inspiration for a topic that had some teeth and a couple of days ago I saw a post calling Iris Apfel a She-ro. Inspiration acquired.

Lacey was the perfect podcast guest to discuss terms like She-EO, Girl Boss, Mumpreneur and She-ro and ask whether they as accelerating women’s progress or could be derailing the progress.

As always the episode is available on all platforms where streaming is available (if you happen to find one I missed please let me know and I’ll sign up to that one too) but here is a link to our host platform

It’s International Women’s Day today! This years theme is ‘Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress’ (find out more here https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day)As we’re a women’s organisation and gender based service we had to take the time to focus on acknowledging the 8th March.This ...

06/03/2024

New episode is out speaking with Serena about her experience of late diagnosis with ADHD https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-fxqx8-15972a3

In this weeks episode of the Hidden World of Women, Emma is joined by Serena.Serena is one unit away from completing her masters in counselling and was diagnosed with ADHD when she was 54.While this episode was going to focus on studying and careers with ADHD, in true ADHD fashion we went everywhere...

05/03/2024

03/03/2024

Wajeh al-Huwaider is most known for her work in the Women to Drive movement in Saudi Arabia. She's faced criminal charges for her work to make her home more equal and continued to fight for equal rights despite this.

03/03/2024

Rochelle Courtenay is the founder of Share the Dignity. In March Share the Dignity runs its period product collection drive. It asks all people to consider what they would need to have a dignified period if they were living on the streets and to donate that.

02/03/2024

As we approach International Women's Day it's important to remember that the fight for equality has never been something we do alone. Millions of people have come together to make a difference.

29/02/2024

In 1965, Merle Thornton and Rosalie Bognor went to see the minister to ask about repealing the drinking laws banning women from drinking in public bars. When he laughed them out of the room they took matters into their own hands. They chained themselves to the Regatta Hotel Bar and had to be removed by the police.
In 2024 the bar they protested at is now called Merle's Bar and while Merle is always willing to pay, they rarely charge her.

24/02/2024

In 2017 there were more CEO's called John than there were women who were CEO's in Australia. This statistic is shocking and something Emma feels very passionate about as our CEO

22/02/2024

International Womens Day is right arounf the corner, and since we're a women's organisation dedicated to telling women's stories we couldn't let the chance to tell you about some incredible women pass us by.

20/02/2024

In 2022 Emma sat down with Jayde Robinson-Clancy to talk about why we still celebrate International Women's Day. In 2024 International Women's Day remains as relevant as ever, as a day to look back and see where we started and how far we still have to go.

16/02/2024

In 2022 Emma sat down with Jayde Robinson-Clancy to discuss International Women's Day and the reasons we continue to celebrate it. In 2024 International Women's Day is still relevant to our lives.

31/01/2024

Anyone else find that when their kids are home everyday they lose track of time?

08/01/2024

The next episode of the Hidden World of Women podcast, we're talking to Serena about her experience going back to university in her 50's with late diagnosed ADHD

05/01/2024

Can you guess the topic of the next podcast episode?

04/01/2024

It's our 30th anniversary as an organisation. To celebrate this we want to acknowledge all the women who have made a difference in our lives. A few years ago we celebrated the big historical milestones for women but at the Hidden World of Women were dedicated to raising the voices of the everyday people. Because you do make a difference.
So send us recordings or writings of you talking about the women who've made a difference, mothers, sisters, wives, friends, teachers.

01/12/2023

When my youngest was a newborn my son was learning drums so I feel this in my very core of my being!