Articles by Shilpaa Anand

Shilpaa Anand teaches disability studies and is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus. She serves as the administrator of a lively email list, Disability Studies India and has co-edited disability-specific issues of the web magazine Café Dissensus.

Ableism and the Trouble with Merit

March 30, 2023

I want to tell this story in two parts. In one, the expectation of meritocracy oppresses everyone; in the other, even access to academic oppression is denied.