Webinar: Youth Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights Report Launch

Join us on November 8th to launch our Youth Sexual and Reproductive Rights Report and accompanying resources. This webinar will launch a set of resources and a report made in co-design with Young Women, Girls, Feminine Identifying and Non-Binary people with disability which was initiated following WWDA’s original survey into sexual and reproductive rights awareness and knowledge.

The report examines the survey findings and brings awareness to the current experiences of young women and gender-diverse people with disability. The resources are created to empower young people with disability to learn more about their rights and where they can find support.

Auslan and captions will be available.

When: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Time: 1:00 - 2:30pm (AEDT)
Where: Online (Register to receive the link).

Speakers:

Akii (they/them) is a community leader and internationally awarded, multi-award-winning disability and gender equity advocate and activist who is deeply passionate about disability rights, anti-racism work and representation. They are a proud, young, disabled, trans non-binary and queer person of colour. Akii is a consultant, trainer, educator, Accessibility Manager at Sydney WordPride, Mardi Gras and a Senior Co-design Advisor at the NDIA. Akii has also been recently been elected a Councillor member for the Victorian Disability Council.

Akii is a first-generation Aussie from a refugee background, who lives with multiple complex chronic illnesses and disabilities. An intimate partner (IPV) and family violence (FV) survivor-advocate, who sits on several advisory committees and working groups across Australia within the health, LGBTIQA+ and disability rights sectors. In addition to advising, educating, training and consulting for diverse human rights causes, accessibility, gender equity and trauma-informed violence prevention (as many of Akii’s disability are a direct result of IPV) which Akii has bravely shared publicly in their extensive violence prevention work and on WWDA Our Site.

Akii is dedicated to accessibility, universal design, non-tokenistic representation and is a fierce advocate for people with chronic pain, chronic illness, and disabilities (apparent and hidden) due to their own lifetime of lived experiences. Akii is also an experienced, agency-represented and internationally published model and actor – working to challenge the perception and create a positive change within the media, fashion and beauty industry for appearance diversity (i.e. surgical scars), disabled individuals, mobility aids, trans, gender-diverse and POC communities.

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Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA)

National Award-winning Disabled Peoples Organisation (DPO) for women, girls and non-binary people with disability in Australia.

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