{"id":63594,"date":"2024-04-25T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/25\/disabilities-women-rapunzel-fairytales-india"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T05:00:15","slug":"rapunzel-reimagined-the-women-retelling-fairytales-to-challenge-notions-of-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63594","title":{"rendered":"Rapunzel reimagined: the women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And They Lived \u2026 Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities <\/p>\n<p>A deaf Snow White, a blind Cinderella, a neurodivergent ugly duckling and a wheelchair-using Rapunzel: classic European fairytales have been reimagined in a new anthropology of stories written by south Asian women with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>When disabled people don\u2019t see themselves in the world, it tells us that we don\u2019t deserve to exist, that these stories are not for us, that stories of love and friendship are not for us, and certainly not happy endings,\u201d says Nidhi Ashok Goyal, the founder of Rising Flame, a feminist disability rights group that has produced the book, called And They Lived \u2026 Ever After.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t. There is no ramp from the room to the garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will find a way. I can carry you down,\u201d says the prince.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/25\/disabilities-women-rapunzel-fairytales-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And They Lived \u2026 Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities A deaf Snow White, a blind Cinderella, a neurodivergent ugly duckling and a wheelchair-using Rapunzel: classic European fairytales have b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,71,1020,59,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-disability","category-global-development","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63631,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594\/revisions\/63631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}