Hyderabad Literary Festival

Priyasha Choudhary

Speaker

Priyasha Choudhary is a researcher exploring the intersections of disability, gender, sexuality, and care in India. She has worked as a research assistant/associate at the University of Amsterdam and IIT Hyderabad, contributing to projects on intellectual disability, gender, and long-term care. Trained in core social sciences, she draws on critical disability studies, medical anthropology, kinship, and feminist ethnography to examine how ableism and patriarchy shape care and kinship. With strong feminist underpinnings, her research is guided by critical and rights-based perspectives, centering lived experiences and feminist methodologies.