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Photos from Mental Health Institutions in Indonesia

From the Boston Globes "Big Picture" photo blog via the excellent Feminists with Disabilities website. I like most of what FWD posts a lot, but I found these two images particularly powerful and heartbreaking, so I thought I would pass them on:

http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/03/13/photos-from-mental-health-institutions-in-indonesia/

I would also note that I find the information offered by the Boston Globe problematic, as it seems to frame the issue as one of supposedly "backward" cultural beliefs, rather than connecting the lack of support more to the intense poverty shown in some other images within the series.

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