This paper examines how women face disaster risk and climate change as part of everyday life hazards in Indonesia, thereby obscuring the gendered labour through which risk is managed in everyday life. Drawing on feminist political ecology as the analysis tools and intersectionality as situation mapping in women’s vulnerability towards disaster, the paper argues that women’s disaster-related care work that encompasses health management, mobility decisions, and post-disaster recovery is systematically rendered invisible within state-centric frameworks that prioritise infrastructure and emergency response. Based on qualitative research combining mental mapping and in-depth interviews, the study explores how marginalised women, including cis-women, transwomen, and women with disabilities, in climate-vulnerable urban margins cognitively and spatially navigate environmental hazards, health risks, and access to essential infrastructures such as clean water and sanitation. Focusing on Jakarta, the findings show that flooding, disease exposure, and infrastructural breakdowns are experienced not as episodic disasters but as part of everyday life shaped by caregiving responsibilities, constrained mobility, and socio-economic precarity. The paper demonstrates that dominant disaster and climate policy narratives separate environmental management from public health and social reproduction, reproducing gendered hierarchies that place the burden of survival and care on women while excluding their knowledge from decision-making, and argues for more inclusive, gender-responsive approaches to disaster governance and climate adaptation in urban Indonesia.

Keywords: gender and disaster, mental mapping, urban margins, intersectionality, Indonesia