Indian Insurers Are Denying Health Cover For Intellectual, Developmental Disabilities
Despite clear guidelines, insurance companies in India exclude those with intellectual and developmental disabilities from coverage
Why Elderly Women With Disabilities Are At Highest Risk of Abuse, Neglect
Forced to depend on their family for support and care because of social norms and ineffective government policies, elderly women with disabilities are highly vulnerable to […]
Why It Is Hard For Disabled Women, Queer Persons To Leave Abusive Partners
Reema*, 32, has been married for about five years but the man she thought would be her life partner has turned out to be a stranger […]
Trans Persons With Disabilities Lack Enabling Social Systems and Healthcare Support
India has laws and support systems for both transgender persons and people with disabilities, but none for those who are both identities – trans persons with […]
Desire, Sexuality And Choice: Disabled Indian Women And Queer Persons On Their Experiences
When they were 18, Nu, a non-binary person with physical and speech disabilities, recalls apologising often to their dates: “I’m sorry I walk with a crutch. […]
Women With Disabilities Have To Constantly Negotiate Between Isolation And Intrusion
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 a […]
Tangled In Red Tape, The Disability ID Card Process Is Steeped With Gender Barriers
Khushi, 18, was elated to get admission to her dream Delhi University college to study English literature. Then, the teen, who was diagnosed with a visual […]
Who Gets To Be A Mother? How Disabled Women Are Absent In The Idea of motherhood
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 bangles […]
‘How will you manage?’ How Disabled Women Are Forced Into Surgical Procedures
Nearly a decade ago, Smitha*, who lives with cerebral palsy, underwent a surgery to remove fibroids from her uterus. The doctors, at the time, asked if […]
India’s Laws Fail To Uphold Abortion Rights Of Women With Disabilities
Arpita Roy Sengupta was 22 years old when her parents, much against her wishes, arranged her marriage in 2007 with Alok*, a deaf person like her. […]
