In our report, we observed the extent to which the low representation of girls and young women with disabilities contributes to aggravating their state, causing them to also have a mental disability.
For women and young girls who do not have a physical disability and who live in a patriarchal society with normative bodies, the way they understand their body and move about in society will be influenced by how others look at them, especially by the negative regard for certain bodies.
For any woman living in a patriarchal society, and for any woman in this room, this will undeniably have an effect on her mental health, the same way that in a racist or colonialist society, people who intersect different oppressions cannot be freed from the weight this has on their mental health.
Unfortunately, we do not have the privilege of being in bodies that are not impacted by social obstacles that obstruct our way of living and moving. To us women, living in a patriarchal society strongly influences our way of being in our body as well as our mental health.