16 Days Campaign 2021

The campaign for 2021 was co-designed by women with lived experience of disabilities including neurodiversity, mental health conditions and chronic illness who were participants in the project experts group in the Margins to the Mainstream Project.

Margins to the Mainstream: Preventing Violence Against Women with Disabilities is a Together For Equality & Respect (TFER) project developed in recognition of the prevalence and seriousness of violence against women with disabilities, and the importance of centering the expertise of women with lived experience of disability in prevention work.

The project experts developed a series of messages, one for each day of the campaign around the theme ‘Equality Is’. Drawing on their experiences of sexism and ableism, the experts created positive messages about what equality looks like for women with disabilities.

Inequalities and discrimination based on sexism and ableism together create the conditions which enable violence against women with disabilities to occur. The messages are powerful calls for us all to take action to prevent violence against women with disabilities by addressing sexism and ableism in:

• relationships,
• families and social networks,
• workplaces, and
• across all settings.

The campaign includes illustrations for each message. The project experts have provided the creative direction and feedback to six women illustrators who have drawn on their own lived experiences as women with disabilities to create illustrations complementing the messages.

You can find out more about the campaign and view the full suite of social media tiles here:

Resources: 16 Days Campaign

Contact: Women's Health East