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Editorial: Mainstream media in India has a disability problem

Shreya Ila Anasuya writes about on the stereotypes created by mainstream news media by the biased and often insensitive reporting of disability...

2018 was a big year for Skin Stories.

Countless living through multiple poorly understood hidden illnesses and disabilities; chronic Lyme disease, CFS, endometriosis, lupus, Ehlers...

I realised that even my closest friend felt the need to centre my disabilities in this kind of conversation. I wondered if there would ever be...

In a country where accessibility for people with disabilities is next to zero, and in a fast-paced job that demands mobility, it can definitely...

I couldn't let the people around me know of the emotional trauma I was going through, as I was afraid that I would attract more pity than I was...

The bodies being celebrated in pop culture, or in conversations around me were unlike my body.

I was surrounded by opinions - both medical and personal - about my condition but I was in a very lonely place. Nobody understood, nobody tried...

If there is a central theme to this book, it is how misunderstood and isolating the individual's mental health experience can be in a society...