This is a disability which other people might not notice right away, but which still affects your day to day life.

Some examples could be: neurological conditions (conditions which affect the way that your brain works), mental health conditions, learning difficulties or disabilities, ADHD, autism, partial sight, hearing loss or D/deafness, long-lasting fatigue conditions and long-lasting pain conditions— but there are lots of others!

Because this is your lived experience, we don’t ask for any proof and we leave it up to you to decide whether you have an invisible disability. We also understand that for some people their disability might be invisible on some days and visible on others.

The short answer is that if you think you have an invisible disability, you are welcome!

Women with invisible disabilities often appear ‘well’ on the surface when they actually aren’t. Because of this they may receive less support, both from friends and family and from society, and they might not feel they fit in groups for visible disabilities.

While we recognise that any disability can be challenging, whether from physical symptoms or, more often, from unfair treatment in society, we are focusing on women with invisible disabilities as there are very few services created especially for them.

Yes! If you identify as a woman you are very welcome, and we are LGBT-friendly.

By this we mean women who do not have a stable, safe long term partner or children they can count on for support.

We know from our lived experience that this group has unique vulnerabilities, and the most likely to slip through the net with housing, money, lack of support and isolation. We are a small lived experience collective.

We understand that Disabled women may be at higher risk of being in unsafe or unstable relationships which they are not yet able to leave. You are very welcome to join us if this applies to you and you would like some support.

Our lived experience has shown that this age range doesn’t have access to much support.

There are existing support services for younger people, and services for older people, but nothing for the middle range. At the age of 55 most local councils offer support including housing options and wellbeing support, which is why our group goes up to this age.

Seen Sisters is an intersectional feminist group for solo women who live with invisible disabilities. We understand the challenges you might face every day because the world doesn’t always see your struggles. Our mission? Join us to be part of a movement that’s all about joyfully reimagining spaces in which every woman is seen.

We are joyfully reimagining our own inclusive spaces for different bodies and minds, as well as sharing our needs unapologetically with the wider community and policy makers through finding allies and partners. This is a diverse group including WOC and LGBTQ+ members; among all our unique identities.

What we are not: a therapy group, a traditional ‘women’s circle’ in which the emphasis is on talking and listening to personal struggles, or a group that takes on all activist work. We joyfully reimagine the spaces we access together and lean on our allies to centre inclusive changes through their networks. We centre joy in all we do!

Seen Sisters solely serves solo women with invisible experiences. But we recognise that diversity makes the world go round. Therefore, we are always on the look out for allies that fully support our lived experience community. If you have any skills to offer on a voluntary basis (we will at times outsource paid work too when we have funding) or resources in kind we would love to hear from you. Allies are so important!

There are lots of ways to describe intersectional feminism.

One simple way is that as women we may have many different identities as well as being women. We might be a woman of colour, an LGBTQ+ woman, a neurodiverse and / or disabled woman. All of these things give us different experiences, both as people, and because of the ways in which society can discriminate against these identities.

Because of this, it’s important that we recognise that all of these identities are important to us and should be respected by other people and by the society we live in. It’s also important to us that all women feel included in feminist groups.

We are feminists, meaning we believe in the rights of women to be equal and want the world to be fair. But it’s important to understand that the experience of being a feminist is very diverse— because we are diverse too!

If you visit our events page you can find everything that we have coming up and book online. As we are a new group, we are still developing our activities, so we will have more events coming up in future.

If you’d like to know what we’ve been up to, you can send us an email at info@seensisters.co.uk to receive our monthly newsletter.

Yes, of course! You can email us at the address above.