shruti rajkumar
@shruti_rajkumar
freelance reporter with a focus on disability. formerly @huffpost @npr @bostonglobemag @asamnews. alum @ecjrn.
After being laid off by HuffPost, I’m now looking for freelance and full time reporter positions! I have experience in breaking news, general assignment, disability, lifestyle, culture reporting and more. Please reach out with any NY based opportunities! [email protected]
we are reliving the era when newsrooms are almost entirely white and great journalists of color, particularly black and brown journalists, are moving into their blog era. this should be concerning for anyone even a little invested in honest, well-reported journalism.
This is your reminder that disabled people were legally prohibited from being in public from the 1860s until the last “Ugly Law” was struck down In Illinois in 1974. Also important to note is the Ugly Laws were put in place at the same time as the Industrial Revolution.
Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!
New from me: Federal cuts to teacher training programs threaten diversity & equity in Massachusetts classrooms. As Massachusetts schools brace for another year of teacher shortages, federal cuts have left vital funding programs hanging by a thread. prismreports.org/2025/06/30/mas…
"He looks TERRIBLE" lmao that's how you know mamdani is handsome
It's finally happened, the Democrats have crossed the line. Zohran Mamdani, a 100% Communist Lunatic, has just won the Dem Primary, and is on his way to becoming Mayor. We've had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous. He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is…
the fact that he was in my neighborhood and i missed it!!!!!!😭
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
there are alternative hotlines and there’s always an endless amount of people who do care deeply and desperately want each queer person here with us.
The Trump administration is shutting down the National LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline on July 17th.
My latest story is leading @HuffPost’s front page! @SenAlexPadilla was manhandled and handcuffed as he was forcibly removed from DHS @Sec_Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday. Read more here: huffpost.com/entry/sen-alex…
Now leading HuffPost:
“Who gets to tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression?” @HuffPost story on Mexican flags at LA protests by @brittanylwong 🇲🇽🇺🇸
What flag they’ll bring to the function probably isn’t top of mind for most people at these protests. “More than anything, these folks are out there trying to keep their families and friends from being illegally kidnapped by a secretive federal agency." huffpost.com/entry/mexican-…
#journorequest Looking for parents of kids with disabilities who found community with other similar families. Also looking for experts to weigh in on these benefits. Please comment or DM
I speak here about the humanitarian crisis facing Gaza, as well as Israel’s decision to starve Palestinians and deny them supplies to treat their diseases on top of the bombs already falling on them. Give it a watch!
HuffPost senior reporter Sanjana Karanth explains the scope of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
"The Pitt" star Supriya Ganesh on using she/they pronouns: "Even though I feel like I identify more with femininity, that doesn’t mean I always fit into a very Western idea of it. That’s part of why I made that decision. It also feels like a bit of a shout-out — like, 'Hey, I’m…
“The world united to slaughter Eelam Tamils, now it's model is used in Gaza.” I have just released an article on Medium that outlines how the model used to slaughter Tamils in Tamil Eelam is now being replicated 1:1 in the Gaza Strip. medium.com/@tamizhanrajah…
For my latest @prismreports article, I spoke to teachers in New England who described uncertainty about the potential impact of Trump’s directive to eliminate DEI in public schools, especially on immigrant and low-income students prismreports.org/2025/05/19/dei…
It's crazy that it needs to be said. Indian is a nationality. Tamil/Malayali/Telugu/Kannadiga/Bengali/Punjabi/Kashmiri/Marathi are all ethnicities. If you leave this country and settle elsewhere, your nationality is gone. You're Australian/Kiwi/Brit etc but still your ethnicity.
Kashmir doesn't belong to Pakistan or India - it belongs to the Kashmiris who bleed while we bicker. We sleep peacefully in our capitals while they wake up to gunfire every day. Let them be free. Let them breathe. Let them finally know peace. They've suffered enough.
Georgia passed a law on Thursday that will phase out subminimum wage for people with disabilities, adding to the growing list of states that have taken legislative action to end the decades-old practice. Read more: shrutirajkumar.substack.com/p/georgia-gove…
In my new piece for @prismreports I spoke with LGBTQ advocates and parents of transgender athletes on how the community is refusing to comply with Trump’s transgender sports ban. Read more: prismreports.org/2025/05/01/mai…
Looking to speak to K-12 students and teachers in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts on navigating state and federal DEI mandates for an article I’m writing for @prismreports DM me or message me on signal @ shrutirajkumar.98 Can likely grant anonymity for sources
I’m writing a piece for @prismreports about this admin’s closure of the HHS Long Covid office. I’d love to talk to ppl with LC in the US about your current access to care and treatment. DM me if you can respond to questions via email (response needed by Saturday 4/26 in the AM).