Priti Salian

Vibrantly combining gestures and mime, Visual Vernacular helps the Deaf and hearing communities to connect and communicate without words.

This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality.

News coverage of the Paralympic Games in India is stuck in regressive victim-hero dichotomies and needs an overhaul

An article on disability rights in Indian elections. It demonstrated how disabled voters face barriers in India’s polling process and the reasons for it.

In this first issue, hear from Jody Santos about ways the Disability Justice Project makes filmmaking accessible to people with diverse disabilities, a quick explainer on camelCase hashtags, upcoming events you could attend virtually, or in person, an exciting opportunity, and links to two award-winning stories.

As a European Journalist Centre grantee, I worked with a videographer to produce this story and published it in the German publication Der Spiegel.

A scheme training visually impaired women to use their heightened tactile abilities benefits patients and examiners

Only 1% of women in India have ever attended a breast-cancer screening programme. A team of blind and partially sighted women are working to change that, one highly sensitive examination at a time.

My paper on disability inclusion in India's news and newsrooms written during a 6-month fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in 2022.

Panel discussion.

My 2017 TEDx talk on the values I have gained from reporting on marginalised communities.

Tips on Reporting Solutions Stories for/with Marginalized Communities.

Mission Accessibility's legal experts use structured negotiation and litigation to make Indian apps and websites accessible.

Anthropologists are studying the global supply of human hair—a billion dollar industry for wigs, weaves, toupees, and more—that relies on hair pickers who gather discarded strands from streets and drains to make ends meet.

In India, women with disabilities face significant barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health care.