Flavia Lopes, Author at BehanBox

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Flavia Lopes

Flavia Lopes is Mumbai based journalist with IndiaSpend covering land, environment and gender

Disability02 Jun 2022

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 […]

Disability10 Mar 2022

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 […]

Disability02 Dec 2021

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 […]