'Get real' case study videos

'Get real' is a series of 5 video case studies about primary prevention and violence against women and girls with disability.

Overview

These case study videos feature five women – Annabel, Christine, Laura, Renay and Talitha.

These women share their authentic, personal stories of lived experience of disability, highlighting the barriers and experiences of violence they’ve faced. They discuss what allies and prevention practitioners can do in their daily lives, at home and at work, to help prevent violence against women.

Find the playlist with all videos on YouTube here. The videos below will play videos that are open captioned and audio described, and have transcripts available.

Find the Auslan interpreted versions of the 'Get real' video case studies here.

Case study 1: Firsthand experiences

What’s life like being a woman with disability? How can allies be supportive, and help prevent violence?

‘Firsthand experiences’ is about the perspectives of women with disabilities in their own words, based on their lived experience and professional expertise.

Case study 2: Naming violence

What is violence against women, and how do we stop it? What does violence against women with disabilities look like?

‘Naming violence’ is about helping audiences to understand, specifically from a lived experience perspective, how violence for women and girls with disabilities is defined, and how it is pervasive.

Case study 3: Unlearning ableism and gender inequality

What is ableism and how it does it show up in daily life for women with disabilities? How is it a form of violence? And how can allies start to ‘unlearn’ ableism?

‘Unlearning ableism and gender inequality’ is about explaining the drivers of violence, from the perspectives of lived experience and professional expertise. It looks at why women and girls with disabilities are more likely to face violence than others, and moments where ableism and gender inequality intersected in their lives to amplify discrimination, exclusion or violence.

Case study 4: Prevention in action

Learn how violence can be prevented in 6 essential actions.

‘Prevention in action’ is about how prevention practitioners and disability service professionals have implemented the essential actions in their practice to ‘shift the dial’.

Case study 5: Daily principles

Learn prevention principles that you can use daily as an ally to prevent violence.

‘Daily principles’ is about about the day-to-day principles that prevention practitioners and disability service professionals strive to work by, from a lived experience and professional expert perspective.