Organizing the Youth Leadership Circle: Lessons Learned across Southern Spaces

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Xuan Thuy Nguyen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8709-1301
Nhi Truong
Dana Corfield

Keywords

Youth Leadership Circle; transnational, young women and girls with disabilities, decoloniality, Global South

Abstract

The Youth Leadership Circle is a transnational group of young women and girls with disabilities from across Southern spaces who come together to learn and to develop their leadership skills. In this paper, we explore our experiences supporting this group and the decolonial possibilities and struggles that emerge through this work. 

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