About the Guest:

Renu Addlakha is currently Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)-supported autonomous research institute, government of India. She presently is engaged in research on health, disability, gender and development.  She has trained in medical anthropology and her areas of specialisation include mental illness and the psychiatric profession, public health systems, bioethics, gender and the family. She has been work on health and disability issues for the past two decades. She has published widely in national and international peer- reviewed journals. Her latest most important publications are Deconstructing mental illness: An ethnography of psychiatry, women and the family (2008 Zubaan Books), Disability and society: A reader (co-edited with Stuart Blume, Patrick J. Devlieger, Osamu Nagase and Myriam Winance (2009) Orient Blackswan). Contemporary perspectives on disability in India: Exploring the linkages between law, gender and experience.

This series is hosted by Saransh Bisht, mental health collective associate at Belongg. They are also a mental health practitioner who works extensively with queer persons on various psycho-social themes. In 2019 they co-founded queer listening circle to enable healing spaces among community spaces.

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