Sometimes, I still think about it – if addiction wasn’t surrounded by stigma, if therapy was something everyone could access without judgment...
Category - Voices
Nothing to ‘fix’: Sign Language and Deaf Culture in Delhi
A fully formed linguistic culture exists around sign language and the idea that deaf people need to be “fixed” by making them hear is ableist...
‘I’m blind. So is love. Get over it!’ Disability and stand-up comedy in India
Audiences are used to looking at certain types of bodies on stage – primarily young, abled male comedians. So when they see a person with a...
Comic: Living with Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is difficult to live with, mostly because it fills your mind with thoughts of self doubt.
Dear ex-therapist, when I say one thing, I don’t mean my mother
I cannot count the number of times we repeated the patterns: ‘Who does this insecurity belong to?’ ‘My mother’; ‘Who does this fear belong to?’...
Stumped: the possibilities and pitfalls of a cyborg world
Of all, disabled cyborgs are the most beloved and the most dangerous.
From speeches to implementation, Indian politics is discriminatory to people with disabilities
Disability and mental health are rarely the linchpins of political conversations, with work on accessibility and inclusion sparse at best.
My disability masks my queerness – and I prefer it this way
‘What do you tell people when they ask questions about why I’m not married at the age of 40?’ I recently asked my 78-year-old father, who lives...
Children’s literature in India has to do a better job of telling stories about disability
In this essay, author Payal Dhar examines the shortcomings in representation and inclusivity of disability in children's literature in India...
The stigma around suicide made my own experience of grief far more difficult
In this personal essay, Dr Nandini Murali examines the stigma and shame surrounding the experience of suicide loss, and how it complicates the...