Hinduphobic Disability Justice

Because even disabled westerners hate Hindus

*Trigger Warning* Hinduphobia, colonial trauma, racism, ableism

Image description: The downloaded screenshot of a tweet with a white background and black text that reads: “me: ha ha sucks living with chronic pain sometimes” Next line reads: “random strangers: but have you tried — ” Next line reads: “me, suddenly holding like 6 knives: i have fucking tried the underwater horse yoga yes” I underlined “I have fucking tried the underwater horse yoga” with thick red underline and also circled the retweets and likes in thick red also. There are 5,990 retweets and 28K likes.

Who invited you into this space of yoga, non-Hindu non-Dharmic person with chronic pain? Who invited you into this sacred space?

I know for a fact it wasn’t my people. They didn’t knock on your door and invite you to “try” yoga.

Because you don’t belong here. This isn’t your space. You have no right to it.

And yet you’re using my people as a punching bag to make your point about disability justice.

You were never invited here. And yet you “tried” yoga? What that means is that you engaged in stolen Indigenous Hindu practices, culturally appropriated them, bastardized my people’s path, insulted and exploited us in a million ways, turned my people’s sacred practices into something to buy and sell, and when all of that didn’t work for your chronic pain — because you bastardized the practice — you whine and complain and punch down on the very Indigenous people you just stole from.

Do you have any idea how many fragile non-Hindu non-Dharmic people whine at me and use this very excuse to keep culturally appropriating yoga: “But I have chronic pain! I need yoga in my life!”