Publications and Presentations
Selected Publications
Co-Written with Avni Sejpal and Sharvari Sastry. “Queer Talk: Desire and Intimacy in South Asia.” In “Queer Asia,” edited by Jungmin Kwon and Shinsuke Eguchi. Special Issue, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 10, no.2 (2023): 156-163.
“Crip Life Amidst Debilitation: Medicalization, Survival, and the Bhopal Gas Leak.” In “Origins, Objects, and Orientations: Towards a Racial History of Disability,” edited by Sony Coráñez Bolton, Kelsey Henry, Leon Hilton, and Anna LaQuawn. Special issue, Disability Studies Quarterly 43 (Fall 2023). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v43i1.9653
Winner of the 2023 Nupur Chaudhuri Award for best first article in the field of history in a refereed journal awarded by the Coordinating Council of Women in History.
“Paranoid Breathing, Reparative Feeling, and Ambivalent Beginning, Or, I’m So Paranoid, I Think Your Covid Test Is About Me.” In “Crip Pandemic Life,” edited by Theodora Danylevich and Alyson Patsavas. Special issue, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 11 (Fall 2022). https://doi.org/10.25158/L11.2.13
Selected Invited Talks
2025. “Social Disability: Unpacking Casteism and Ableism in Colonial and Postcolonial India.” Invited to speak on a panel on Disability in South Asia, Stanford Center for South Asia (virtual).
2025. “Strategic Conversations: Disasters, Houselessness, and Disabilities,” speaker on a roundtable with Kate Thornstad, Sateesh Nori, and Melissa Marshall, moderated by Mehgan Sidhu, at the Disability Rights Bar Association Conference (Baltimore and virtual).
2024. “Disability in the Geopolitical Global South,” speaker on a roundtable with Ankita Mishra and Vishnu K.K. Nair, at the Disability Matters symposium at the University of Sheffield (virtual).
2024. “Queer Indian Scholar Speaks Out Against U.S. Corporate Crime in Bhopal,” featured in Out.FM – a multiracial, progressive, LGBT public affairs and culture show, WBAI 99.5FM.
2024. “Disability as Geopolitics: India, the UN, and Transnational Welfare.” Invited to the Commission on Science, Technology, and Diplomacy Seminar as awardee of the 2024 Awardee of the STAND Early Career Prize recognizing outstanding papers addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their international contexts (virtual).
2024. “Massification, Debility, and 40 Years of Crisis in Bhopal w/ Jiya Pandya (05/16/24),” in Death Panel by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Jules Gill-Peterson. https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/bhopal-jiya-pandya
NB: A more extensive list of my presentations and publications can be found in my CV, which is available on request. If you are interested in my work and any of it is behind a paywall or are incompatible with screen-readers or other access technology, please feel free to reach out to me. I will be happy to email you an accessible PDF link for the article.