This collection of poems created by people with diffabilities in Lombok, Indonesia, captures their embodied experience of the community through rhythmic verse and raw emotion. Each poem pulls back the curtain on the systemic barriers, structural exclusion, resilience, and experience of disasters that the community navigates daily on an island that is deeply ableist and inaccessible.
The Right to Struggle
By Ika (Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf)
The Voice I Cannot Hear, but I Can Feel
By Via (Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf)
Deaf Life Poem
By Alfian (Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf)
The Disaster of Deaf Life
By Alfian (Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf)
Determination of Disability
By Andrei (Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf)
Deaf Family Poem
By Alfian (Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf)
We Hear with the Heart
By Alfian (Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf)
I Also Struggle
By D’Rose
*Trigger Warning: Mentions of Suicide
Disasters for Persons with Disabilities
By Yayasan Bale Batur Difabel
Physical Disability
By Nurbaeni (West Nusa Tenggara Association of Women with Disabilities)
Walking Through a Shaken Lombok
By Farhan (LIDI Foundation)
In the Midst of the Earth’s Tremor
By Ratna (Indonesian Blinad Union)
