In the second of the interview series, ‘Wisdom from the Young and the Disabled’, we are in conversation with Sanket Gala. As we bear witness to the rich know-hows from young people with disabilities of how the world should be, we hold on to the words and intentions of writer and community organizer for disability…
Month: July 2020
Wisdom from the Young and the Disabled: In Conversation with Darshana Ramgiri
In the words of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “disabled folks are the most brilliant folks we know, both in the ways we navigate an ableist colonial reality and the ways in which we create beautiful new worlds and forms of resistance.” Through these interview series, we hope to bear witness to the rich wisdom from the…
Alternative Identity Project: Rejecting Personal Failure and Locating Failure in Systems
Alternative Identity Project was a 4-day gathering that invited 8 young people from the margins to come together and engage in conversations that reject the idea of personal failure and place failure in the unequal systems and unjust structures around us. Through externalization and reauthoring over rainy July afternoons, the young people journeyed together to reclaim their…
Children’s Picture Books as scaffolds to Re-author Stories of Disabilities
One of the powerful ideas that align narrative practices and disability justice is that people are not the problem, the problem is the problem. That the problems are not in our bodies, heads or hearts but in the social structures of injustice, in a world that’s industrialized, medicalized, ableist. In a conversation with Vikki Reynolds,…
‘हमारे जुगाड़’ – A collective document of mothers’ know-hows of taking care of themselves
हमारे जुगाड़/Our Jugaad is a collective document about different ways in which mothers take of themselves, their mental health. This Covid lockdown across India has been a particularly difficult time for caregivers of children with disabilities with restricted access to supportive spaces, everyday resources, medical and therapy services, change in everyday routine. The Mental Health…