Tag - stigma

Image is portrait of a darkened, sketched silhouette of a figure with curly hair and wearing glasses, facing our left. A pink balloon floats above their head, the string passes through their left eye and goes from the back of their head, over their shoulder and meets the heart. The various chambers and blood vessels of the heart are drawn with several colours. A chrome yellow layer outlines the silhouette; the background is a deep violet with streaks of pink.

My disability masks my queerness – and I prefer it this way

Description: Three children play under a spotlight against the background of a large, purple book. One of them dances, holding blue pom poms, and wearing a prosthesis on one of their lower legs. The second stands with their back to us, holding a walker. The third sits on the floor, wearing headphones attached to a device. The turquoise background features speech bubbles.

Children’s literature in India has to do a better job of telling stories about disability

The image shows a person in a white night gown and long black hair left open. They are outdoors, and holding a night lamp in one hand. In the other, they hold a photoframe with a person’s outline on it. A deep yellow panel symbolising the light goes from the ground to the top illuminating leaves, a water body, clouds and a crescent moon. There are two black panels travelling vertically on the sides of the yellow light; the panels have pairs of white eyes like that of a wild animal, and various plants/shrubs.

The stigma around suicide made my own experience of grief far more difficult

The image shows a figure wearing black standing to the right of the frame, their arms slightly outstretched. They are grasping onto the many red threads that criss cross in front of them. Their face and hair is also red, and black coloured words cut out of newspaper are placed on the hair such that they look like thoughts. The background of the top half of the image is black with white trails of dots, just like the figure’s clothes, while the bottom half is orange with light brown streaks.

Editorial: Mainstream media in India has a disability problem

Description: A person wearing glasses and a yellow shirt sits on an armchair, looking down at a laptop. In the centre is a coffee table on which we see a steaming cup, a vase of flowers and newspapers. The walls of the room are red, and through the windows we see a tree and a building.

‘We don’t want you on page 3’: Surviving the newsroom with bipolar disorder

In this photograph, Shilpa Shroff is with her son who is pulling her cheek as they look lovingly at each other.

‘Love them the way they are’: Shilpa Shroff on parenting and disability

Sharif and Nilofer on their wedding day. They are both decorated with flowers and are sharing a sweet.

In Sangli, love and partnership in the lives of three couples with disabilities

A picture of Abha as a child. She is wearing a pink and white sweater and is seated against striped curtains.

Swimming upstream: Keeping my emotional self intact through years of pain and humiliation

Under shiny disco lights, a man dressed in red holds the hand of a woman dressed in green. The woman is dancing with complete abandon, her head tipped back. Around them, indistinguishable figures dance.

The love story that wasn’t