Our Ability Beyond our Disability is a snapshot into the challenges, struggles, hopes, and dreams of women with disabilities living in the city of Phnom Penh. Part of a collaborative initiative known as 4 Women, 4 Communities, 4 Stories, this component draws on the stories and reflections of eleven blind and visually impaired women led by two blind leaders who aspire to not only change their lives, but to change the way others see them. The larger initiative explores intersectionality among doubly marginalised including rural women in the city, Indigenous women, women facing violence, and these women with disabilities who all reside in Phnom Penh and carry out their lives in an urban context.
This publication examines the findings of blind and visually impaired women who work as massage therapists, singers, or study in the city. Following the implementation of Facilitative Listening Design (FLD), a participatory community research approach that connects “Listeners” to “Sharers” in deep conversation, these findings provide a glimpse into the minds and experiences of women who cannot rely on sight to navigate their lives. Direct messages from the women themselves also gift readers with genuine insights and petitions to see things from their point of view, or rather feel things from their hearts.
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