Ten+ years later-- we are still visible : Ten plus years later, we are still visible

Without the strength and passion of the women who took time to share their experience and expertise (personally and professionally) by participating in this update of We Are Visible, these critical and essential issues would never come to light and the opportunity to address these issues would be lost. [...] Through community-based research and a literature review, this project works to understand the barriers to health and health care that ethno- cultural/racialized women with disabilities face and whether any progress has been made to address the issues discussed by the women in the original We Are Visible project. [...] A. Impetus for this Project Over the last decade and a half, there has emerged a growing literature in the health and social sectors emphasizing the significance of the social determinants of health and a mounting call for the need to bring an intersectional analysis to the study of access to health, healthcare and general well-being (Visandjee, 2000; Mulvihill et al, 2001;). [...] With the financial support of the Public Health Agency of Canada, the guidance of our Advisory Committee and the time and experiences shared with us by participants, Ten+ Years Later – We Are Visible reveals what has changed and what has stayed the same over the last ten years for ethno-cultural/racialized women with disabilities. [...] That is to say, we wanted to draw attention to the fact that discrimination is a result of systemic biases, as opposed to being about the race and culture of the women themselves.