A guidebook for leadership building: Using participatory arts-based methods for engaging young women and girls with disabilities across Southern spaces.
The Decolonial Disability Studies Collective (DDSC) at Carleton University, in collaboration with McGill University and the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, has released A guidebook for leadership building: Using participatory arts-based methods for engaging young women and girls with disabilities across Southern spaces.
This guide is developed by the Learning with and from the global South: Opportunities for engaging girls and young women with disabilities across Southern spaces (ENGAGE) project. ENGAGE aims to create decolonial spaces for young women and girls with disabilities in the global South to develop their leadership knowledge and foster their inclusion. We will examine how young women and girls with disabilities and partners in the global South can engage, negotiate, and build their leadership as opportunities for decolonial and inclusive knowledge production. The guide is developed by collaborative work between faculty members and graduate/undergraduate students. It is used as a guide to conduct fieldwork for the ENGAGE research team members while providing a useful guide for community members, partners, Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, Non-governmental organizations, students, and policymakers to apply this tool in a culturally appropriate approach which respects the relevance of contexts, methods, and methodologies, as well as its potential users.
