Almost a hundred women with disabilities, belonging to different entities, joined the feminist demonstration in Madrid on Sunday, in order to say “enough” to the “permanent social invisibility” they suffer, chanting slogans like “women with disability are also women ”.
Convened by the CERMI Women Foundation (FCM), women with disabilities participants of all ages have denounced, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the “intersectional discrimination” that they still support in the enjoyment of fundamental rights.
In this sense, Ana Peleez Narvaez, FCM’s executive vice president, lamented that, “even today, in the 21st century, women and girls with disabilities see how we are denied access to basic services on equal terms, such as health or justice; we are still more exposed to sexist violence and, when we want to denounce, we find a multitude of barriers, while we continue to support an activity rate and job insecurity much worse than that of women without disabilities and that men with disabilities ”.
During the march, the women with disabilities who attended carried placards and chanted slogans such as “we are not all there, the murdered are missing” or “we are real, we want to be the same”, among other slogans.
In addition to women with disabilities, some men with disabilities like Antonio also participated. “The struggle for equality is everyone’s task, so this is the third year I have come. I couldn’t stay at home”, this protester said.
