What does it take to get your whole self — body, soul, and identity — out into the Moroccan desert? In this powerful and intimate episode of Inadequate Mother, I sit down beneath the desert sun with Penny Gunn, founder of Sign for Thoughts, an organisation delivering Deafblind awareness training and challenging societal norms around disability and communication.

Penny shares her incredible journey as a Deafblind woman, mother, and advocate. We talk about the complexities of raising children while navigating the world through a unique sensory lens, what it really means to be independent, and how she got her "arse into the desert" — figuratively and literally.

This conversation is raw, warm, and deeply human. Penny opens up about the layers of her identity, the intersections of being a disabled mother in a world not built for inclusion, and what she wishes the world truly understood about Deafblindness. We explore themes of visibility, community, resistance, and self-definition — all in the spirit of radical honesty that Inadequate Mother is known for.

As always, this episode is part of my commitment to platforming voices too often left out of mainstream narratives and ensuring content is accessible for the sign language community.

✨ This episode is available in BSL on YouTube.

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