Dear friends,
Greetings from Rising Flame! Did you read fairy tales growing up? Did you find women with disabilities in them? Did the disabled characters have a happily ever after? Or were they villains or comic reliefs? We brought together 13 disabled women to rewrite fairy tales and we put it together in an anthology. It has been published by HarperCollins now! >From the blurb: Meet a deaf Snow White, a wheelchair-using Rapunzel, a neurodivergent Ugly Duckling. In a world where fairy tales usually demonise characters who live with a disability, these and other fairy-tale characters challenge our understanding of the people around us. The authors of this collection seek to retell classic stories by weaving in their own everyday experiences - the struggles, joys, and frustrations that may not be known to the non-disabled. <https://twitter.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7784ab4f64e8189cd3d7b97df&id=77cd6bb76e&e=b1b4256e00> And They Lived ... Ever After grew out of a programme organised by Rising Flame, an award-winning non-profit that seeks to build an inclusive world in which diverse bodies, minds, and voices thrive with dignity and live free of discrimination, abuse, and violence. This book is every bit as enchanting as it is important. About the Process: In 2020 I translated a thought, a concept into the ' <https://twitter.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7784ab4f64e8189cd3d7b97df&id=168fca59fa&e=b1b4256e00> My Tale Too programme'. Here we brought together disabled women to a writing workshop by <https://twitter.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7784ab4f64e8189cd3d7b97df&id=36afd69443&e=b1b4256e00> Aditi Rao, to re-author and craft stories. These stories were then edited by <https://twitter.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7784ab4f64e8189cd3d7b97df&id=17789a04f7&e=b1b4256e00> Richa Kaul Padte. The entire process was held together by our very own Srinidhi Raghavan. These stories have found a home in Harper Collins India, and now after a few years (or a blink), we have a real book. Our authors include Indian & Sri Lankan women who are lawyers, professors, educators, and social entrepreneurs with a diverse range of disabilities like deafness, blindness, autism, and psychosocial disabilities, etc. They re-write stories like The Ugly Duckling, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White, Pinocchio, Little Red Riding Hood & Rumpelstiltskin. As women with disabilities reauthoring these stories, we see the everyday reality of persons with disabilities reflected in these fairy-tale worlds; all while we see disabled women dreaming and living their lives, their experiences of rejection and resilience, their wisdom of innovating and courage of altering lives around them, and finding ways of healing and thriving. We have put together a book that we wished we had while growing up, a book we want to gift, and something that we will treasure on our bookshelves. This book is not just for kids and young adults, but for each one of us who has felt different, awkward, judged, or alone in moments, in dialogues, and in stories. You can order the book on Amazon, kindle, or grab it at a book store near you. We encourage you to read the stories that should have been written many years ago, make them part of your teachings & writings, and just enjoy with a cup of chai. Warm Regards, Nidhi Goyal Founder and Executive Director Rising Flame www.risingflame.org <http://www.risingflame.org> socials: @RisingFlameNow -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/001101da7c59%248faf39d0%24af0dad70%24%40gmail.com.
