Cait Ruth Lawrence

Oct 2, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Áine Kelly-Costello |Cait Ruth Lawrence |Helen Fletcher |Ruby Solly

"I have been living separated from Jap Sahib for seven years now. I am working as a chef in Christchurch. Jap Sahib is back in India, with his grandmother. It pains me that I have missed out on seeing him grow up for the past seven years. After I first came to NZ in 2014, Jap Sahib was turned down for multiple visas because of the discriminatory health requirements. In 2016, Immigration said that either I or my husband at the time had to go back to our country and take care of Jap Sahib there.

Jul 18, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Ellen Mogård Larsen |Olivia Shivas |Cait Ruth Lawrence |Umi Asaka

For a really long time, I don’t think anyone around me saw these online communities the way I did. I seemed to see the connections made and communities evolving as more real and more valuable. You’re bound to be over-invested if social media has been your only social sustenance for years, I’m sure, but as I kept sharing through my recovery and disabilities progressing, I was seeing a world forming online that I really wanted to be a part of.