This poster was created by the Indonesian Mental Health Association. It has a dark background and shows a picture of a girl with a shackle around her ankle. The poster reads:
Are we not women?
The voices of women with psychosocial disabilities
Are we not women?
Or are we only women if it’s convenient for you?
While you speak of equality, we are locked away.
While you fight violence, we are sterilized.
While you demand justice, we are denied legal capacity. You build movements about women, without us.
We are not invisible. You choose not to see us.
Women with psychosocial disabilities are women.
And we will no stay silent.
This report shares what is really happening, and what must change.
If you believe in women’s rights, you need to see us. You need to hear us. Please scan. Learn. And stand with us.
“Not invisible. Not forgotten.”
We are deeply sorry.
The girl on the front cover died in 2020 in the institution where she was confined in Central Java, Indonesia.
May her life not be remembered only through grief, but through our collective struggle to end the confinement and violence still endured by thousands of girls and women in institutions across the world.
You can access more of IMHA’s Forgotten Girl resources using the link below.