Contents – Disability (Issue 3)
Third Issue Index
Posts from the ‘Issue 3/Disability’ Category
Aug 15
Aug 15
Guest Editorial: ‘Dis/Abilist Ideologies: Politicizing the Personal in India’
By Nandini Ghosh
I leave with another personal note: nearly three months ago, I won the custody of my adoptive daughter after a long wait of more than two years. While no one in the adoption facilitating agency ever mentioned a word against my eligibility, I was made to cool my heels for almost a year before they even gave me the adoption application form.
Challenging Disability at Every Step
By Agnes D’Souza
I had a very normal childhood. My parents and extended family did not differentiate between my siblings and myself. This taught me the valuable lesson of never seeing myself as differently abled. Throughout my academic life, I was able to compete as an equal with my fellow students.
Aug 15
An Interview with Aditi Basu
By Nandini Ghosh
In this interview, Aditi Basu, a survivor of mental health issues, speaks to Nandini Ghosh.
Learning to Transgress Boundaries of Bodily Integrity
By Deepa Sonpal
All the teachers, nuns and students were so supportive and I was included in all activities except sports as I had photophobia. In between, I studied in Mumbai for a few years and did experience rejection by the same relatives who had doted on me in my early childhood as they did not want to take on additional responsibility.
Aug 15
My Silently Meaningful Journey…
By Bhavini Modi
Many a times, my decisions have clashed with those of my family, but I have stuck on with those I believe in. I have tried on multiple occasions to explain to my family a deaf person’s way of life. Sometimes, they have understood, but many a times I have been unable to make them see reason.
Aug 15
Myself Must I Remake
By Jayati Gupta
I shall use myself as a case study to consider problems of returning to the mainstream. In academics and education in India, progression is linear and scope for lateral entries is minimal.
Aug 15
Living With a Disability: Personal and Political Repercussions
By Piyali Roy Chowdhury
When I was studying in the tenth standard, a young man, who was doing his Masters then, used to teach me the science subjects. I could feel that he developed a strong liking for me. Whenever I was sick, he used to come home and stay for long hours.
Aug 15
Triumphing Over the Odds
By Ragavi
I completed B.Com. from the government college for women in Chennai and was selected as a player in college at the district level. After college, while waiting for a job, I did a desktop publishing computer course.
Aug 15
Hello! New World
By Sanjukta Choudhury Kaul
In a matter of weeks, I went from being an able-bodied professional with full thriving career to a person with disability, having an uncertain future. With no prior experience of disability in the family, my disability had a disabling impact on the whole family.
Aug 15
Tabooed! Tabooed! Tabooed!
By Sayomdeb Mukherjee
Going abroad to represent my country opened my eyes in many ways. I have seen my friends there not only getting married but the people, who didn’t get married, taking their girlfriends around holding their heads high! It is quite funny to see how different the condition in India is.
Aug 15
The Burden of Karma
By Arun Kumar, Vanmala Hiranandani & Deepa Sonpal
We do not contend the presence of religion and karma, and its relationship with the imagination of and responses to disability. However, we find it objectionable that scholarship of disability in India was expected to be (re-)framed to fulfil the West’s imagination of India.
Aug 15
Eyeing Difference: Creating Disability
By Nookaraju Bendukurthi
Gazing is a physiological exercise directed towards an irreparable part of my body: an impairment or my impaired eye. Gaze has a somewhat different procedure in exerting its embodied power.
Aug 15
Enjoying Sex: Going Beyond the Body
By Payal Jethra
Depending upon the type of disability, the couple might want to choose the sort of act that brings them utmost pleasure. They might focus more on foreplay/ after play rather than the act itself or suit their situation by choosing the latter and skipping the former.
Aug 15
Disability Social Models – Taking on ‘FULL’ Sensual Lives with ‘HALF’ Sexual Bodies…!!
By Sai Padma Murthy
The sexual rights of persons with disabilities are often treated as unusual and unnatural by their immediate environment. The media portrayal of sexuality of the disabled hasn’t changed much, only it is upgraded from showing disabled as comic characters to sex-starved human beings.
Café Dissensus 