The Advocate
Photography by Denise Beckwith Juana Soto, Mexico, 2017…
Hidden
– Diana Mendoza, Mexico, 2015 SPANISH “Me gustan las mujeres y me ha pasado que la chica con la que salía el año pasado ella era hipoacusica y más bien reservada y no le gustaba mostrar públicamente su afecto pues temía el rechazo de las demás personas, cosa que terminé entendiendo pues al hacer este […]…
Solidarity
– Ivonne Arcos, Mexico, 2015 SPANISH “El tipo de violencia que he sufrido ha sido en relación al trabajo, yo sólo estudié hasta primaria pues en la escuela en la que estaba me obligaban a oralizar (hablar con voz) y no utilizar la lengua de señas, lo que ocasionaba que no comprendiera los temas de […]…
Silent Tears Still Fall
“Las mujeres con discapacidad que viven violencia, muchas veces permanecen en el silencio. Necesitamos hablar, necesitamos escuchar y trabajar para que ellas se reconozcan y reconocerlas como personas dignas de amor y de derechos” “Women with a disability who live with violence often stay silent. We need to speak, we need to listen and work […]…
Rape
Photograph by Denise Beckwith Anonymous, Italy 2017 “I am 33 years old. My birth mother actually died during birth and I acquired disability as a result of paediatric/midwife violence. I really like horses to help me do physical therapy. My physiotherapist, was away and the replacement didn’t let me ride the horses because it was […]…
Deception
Photograph by Denise Beckwith Anonymous, Italy 2017 “I am 34 years old, I have a sister and a brother, and the lady you saw over there is my mother. Unfortunately, my father passed away in 2010. For us it’s very important, because everyone else hid it under a rock and we want to speak out. […]…
Scream
Photograph by Denise Beckwith Sara Code, Germany 2018 “My parents rented me to others, who abused me. My mother said they should stop because I was starting to talk and because I was too little, I would not know what I can tell others what was happening. My father got really angry because he said […]…
Deny
Photography by Denise Beckwith M. Peace. S. , Germany, 2017 ‘Every illness has it beginning. Like every beginning has it´s start. 4 years ago, it was in July 2013, I was writing at home, a House work, about people and how they treat each other at the working place. So at least I wanted to […]…
Torture
Photograph by Denise Beckwith Jolijn, Netherlands, 2017 “This is part of my personal testimony that I wrote in 2016 as I have gone through some very distressing personal experiences in mental health care, particular, the forced body cavity searches between the age of 16 and 18 which had a devastating effect on my personal experience […]…
An Uncomfortable Truth
Photography by Denise Beckwith “I was born in the tropical town of Darwin in 1981 to my Warlpiri mother Bess Nungurrayi Price and Australian born Anglo-Celtic father Dave Price. My dreamings are Yirrikipai (Crocodile) from my conception site on Melville Island in salt-water country and my inherited dreamings from my other Warlpiri fathers are Ngapa […]…