This is soon! Make sure you join the webinar to hear from @saysnidhigoyal! https://twitter.com/CHLET_JGU/status/1312303163349725184

The webinar has started! Moderator @DipikaJain2019 introduces the discussion: “The government has introduced and passed bills during the pandemic with no consultation.”

Sunita Rani: when everyone was at home, Asha workers family's were affected by #COVID because they were going door-to-door.

"ASHA workers are the backbone of the public health care system, ensure services reach everywhere, and they don't get any health insurance from the govt at all."

“More work during the pandemic but no benefits at all.”

“They just salute us for the sake of it, and make excuses for not providing financial help, or insurance even though they are frontliner health workers.”

“Even if this decriminalisation of Section 312 were to happen it wouldn't make any difference.” Nikita of @CPAProjectIndia

“Maximization to access to health revolves around the realm of carcerality” - @vqueeram of @CLPRtrust

“Those who fall outside the realm - women who make 'bad choices' fall into the realm of carcerality”

@vqueer: “Gender is deeply tied to feminist resistance against statist politics.”

@vqueer: We don't usually think that everyday practices are tied to the carceral imagination of the state, which is all the more reason that we must imagine an abolitionist framework.

@saysnidhigoyal: when drafting bills and laws, disabled women are almost never taken into consideration or asked to consult because they are a very small group.

“We have to understand there is a huge state interest when talking about these issues.” - @saysnidhigoyal

the clause in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Amendment Bill 2014 states that you cannot get an #abortion for a woman without her consent other than in cases of severe #disability – without specifying which disabilities

“there is no availability of doctors/gynaecologists – this was a problem before the pandemic and has worsened during it” - Sunitaji, ASHA worker

Nikita from @CPAProjectIndia: Brahminical patriarchy, which is the based on controlling of women's bodies, is the ethos of the criminal justice system in the country

"It is used to perpetuate and entrench the caste system in the carceral system - as evident in the #HathrasCase as well." - Nikita Sanovane

"An anti-caste, anti-carceral imagination is the only way a feminist conception of the world can be built!!"

@saysnidhigoyal - "Inclusion means multilayered inclusion when we talk about disability, you can't just take one person to represent the entire group"

Referencing the Neglected & Forgotten research we conducted earlier here (more info here! https://risingflame.org/project/neglected-and-forgotten-women-with-disabilities-during-covid-crisis-in-india/), @saysnidhigoyal says, "There is no need for the govt to make such big reforms during a pandemic when the country is dealing with so much already"

"For women with disabilities, the over-protection by parents that girls under 18 often go through, remains for much longer in life because they are infantalized." - @saysnidhigoyal

Thank you so much to @BehanBox and @CHLET_JGU for organizing this session and to @DipikaJain2019 and Bhanu Rao for being wonderful moderators! It was really enlightening and many important points were brought up by the incredible panelists!

The entire session will be up online to watch back or in case you missed it, we'll be sure to link it back here.