In this presentation we critically reflect on our recent experiences in Indonesia working with local artists, communities, activists, and practitioners to better understand and address the gender–age–urban interface of climate change and disasters: how the diverse impacts and responses to disasters and climate change are shaped by gender and age, and how they intersect with wider systemic injustices, across different and often informal urban settings. We frame our contribution around two recent examples of our creative and applied practice that have engaged with local social movements and community care practices: Kayuh Baimbai: a creative intervention led by people with diffabilities in South Kalimantan (from 'difabel', a Bahasa Indonesia term favoured by activists as a critique of 'disabilitas') to shape new inclusive disaster preparedness processes, practices and knowledge production at multiple scales, from communities to city government to working collaboratively in communities amongst leaders, neighbours, and extended and immediate families; and Trans Superhero Perubahan Iklim (Transgender Superheroes for Climate): led by a collective of transgender women in Jakarta that combines theatre and dance performance, illustration, a boardgame and community care to promote climate, environmental and gender justice. We centre these two different collaborations to invite anthropologists to explore how feminist, ethnographic, and arts-led methodologies can foreground and mobilise the creativity, knowledges, perspectives and art forms of communities traditionally excluded in climate and disasters risk reduction processes; while collaborating on local movements towards gender, social, environmental and climate justice.