But you don't look disabled: a zine by Yuvna Pal
Student submission from the Introducing Critical Disability Studies: Indian Contexts, Global Perspectives online course.
This is a zine called “But You Don’t Look Disabled” about hidden or invisible disabilities. Read the zine here.
The cover page says “BUT YOU DON’T LOOK DISABLED - a zine”
The first page is an image of a smiling woman in a pink dress and the text around her reads “This is what you
see on the outside.”
The second page shows different parts of her body experiencing various symptoms such as brain fog, a racing heart, fatigue in her arms and chronic pain in her legs. The text around her says “This is what is on the inside.”
The third page is an image of the woman sitting down with her head on her knees. Things that are commonly said to people who may not have visible disabilities.
On the last page, “You don’t look disabled” is again witten in bold characters. Underneath it are the words “because you don’t know what disability looks like.” The page is covered with sunflowers.
iHuman
How we understand being ‘human’ differs between disciplines and has changed radically over time. We are living in an age marked by rapid growth in knowledge about the human body and brain, and new technologies with the potential to change them.