Disability studies have gained more interest and readership in the past few decades and have become an academic discipline on its own with new concepts and theories. In the changing terrain, disability studies now have been placed alongside race, gender, and sexuality, and other areas as well. It reflects on their co-dependence and how the disability minority community is also treated or perceived as "the other." To understand this idea further, Iranian-American novelist, Porochista Khakpour's memoir, Sick (2018), has been taken up for discussion. Porochista Khakpour's memoir, Sick, intertwines two emotions: of not feeling at home in one's own body and of not feeling at home anywhere in the world. Sick not only tries to create awareness about the rarely acknowledged Lyme disease but also examines how a person's gender and ethnic identity can affect the experience. Through close reading of the text and disability studies theories, this paper aims to understand disability, its sociological and political implications, and the journey of a woman of color, navigating through it.
