Rapunzel reimagined: the women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection
And They Lived … 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 been reimagined in a new anthropology of stories written by south Asian women with disabilities.
“When disabled people don’t see themselves in the world, it tells us that we don’t 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,” says Nidhi Ashok Goyal, the founder of Rising Flame, a feminist disability rights group that has produced the book, called And They Lived … Ever After.
“I can’t. There is no ramp from the room to the garden.”
“We will find a way. I can carry you down,” says the prince.
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