Trans Persons With Disabilities Lack Enabling Social Systems and Healthcare Support

Mumbai: India has laws and support systems for both transgender persons and people with disabilities, but none for those who are both identities – trans persons …

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Women With Disabilities Have To Constantly Negotiate Between Isolation And Intrusion

Mumbai: Barely a month before her 12th grade board exams, Kavya Mukhija (now 23) had to take a week’s sick leave from school. She had contracted …

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Who Gets To Be A Mother? How Disabled Women Are Absent In The Idea of motherhood

Mumbai: A few weeks ago, Hera* and her toddler stared at the wall in awe. The light that gleamed through the broken glass pieces of the …

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