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How I live ‒ and try to die ‒ with schizophrenia
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How I live ‒ and try to die ‒ with schizophrenia

The following is an excerpt from Fallen, Standing: My Life as a Schizophrenist by Reshma Valliappan. This was first excerpted…
By Curated Content
April 15, 2015
How I live ‒ and try to die ‒ with schizophrenia
How do you Imagine a Feminist Internet?
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How do you Imagine a Feminist Internet?

By: Amla Pisharody In August 2016, APC along with some activists and feminists which also included Feminism in India revised and…
By Curated Content
June 15, 2017
How do you Imagine a Feminist Internet?
How Do You Battle AIDS if No One Talks About Sex? KP’s Transgenders Speak Out
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How Do You Battle AIDS if No One Talks About Sex? KP’s Transgenders Speak Out

In Peshawar alone, the community consists of over 500 transgenders. At least 20 per cent of these have AIDS. Their risk of contracting AIDS is higher, since 59 per cent of khawaja saras report to have at least one sexually transmitted infection.
By Curated Content
April 18, 2016
How Do You Battle AIDS if No One Talks About Sex? KP’s Transgenders Speak Out
How Being A Queer Feminist Shaped My Approach To Mental Health
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How Being A Queer Feminist Shaped My Approach To Mental Health

As a queer-feminist mental health practitioner, my way to understand realities is to examine the power relations that exist in our social locations, identities and structures.
By Curated Content
June 15, 2018
How Being A Queer Feminist Shaped My Approach To Mental Health
How #MeToo Revealed the Central Rift Within Feminism Today
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How #MeToo Revealed the Central Rift Within Feminism Today

In the media and in private life, conversations about consent, hostile environments and power began, and there was a growing acknowledgment that a man’s unwanted sexual overtures were a symptom of broader social and political forces.

By Curated Content
July 16, 2018
How #MeToo Revealed the Central Rift Within Feminism Today
Here’s why I think the society should not obsess over a woman’s virginity
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Here’s why I think the society should not obsess over a woman’s virginity

By Indian Home Maker for her personal blog Here’s an article from TOI that I think encourages sexist fallacies. Great…
By Curated Content
March 16, 2015
Here’s why I think the society should not obsess over a woman’s virginity
Here is how Anti- Feminist Trolls would ‘Save’ Free Speech
Here is how Anti- Feminist Trolls would ‘Save’ Free Speech

Originally published in Everyday Feminism: Here is how Anti- Feminist Trolls would ‘Save’ Free Speech In an increasingly digital world,…
By Curated Content
August 3, 2020
Here is how Anti- Feminist Trolls would ‘Save’ Free Speech
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
A still from a 2010 film 'Just Another Love Story'. A middle-aged man dressed in brown kurta-pajama is bowing as if in courtsey to a woman who is wearing heavy jewellery. She is holding a glass of wine or water in one hand, and chinese fan in another. She is wearing a big red bindi, dark mehroon lipstick, and kajal.
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity

By Anonymous for Cake: A while back, when I was toying with the idea of coming out to my parents…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
Graphic Story: The First Move
Graphic of a person at an office desk. The person is reclining on a chair with hands behind their head and looks relaxed. There is a mug of warm beverage, a desktop, a keyboard and a mouse on the table. On the upper left corner is the title of the graphic story that reads “The First Move…” Right below with is the credits to the writer and illustrator, Priya Dali and text reads “Written and illustrated by Priya Dali”. Below it is another line of text - “#QUEERINGWITHTINDER”.
Graphic Story: The First Move

This short and cute graphic story by Priya Dali, published by Gaysi in collaboration with Tinder, captures the playful initial stages of online dating as Maya tries to make the first move on Rae with the help of colleagues.
By Curated Content
December 1, 2021
Graphic Story: The First Move
Good Girls Marry Doctors: Brave Voices On Daughterhood In South Asian American Families
Book cover. Illustration of a brown woman wearing orange saree, and gold jewellery on forhead, nose, ear, and upper arm, with her hands crossed. On top is written in white and bold "Good girls marry doctors". Under it in smaller font are written subtitle and editor's name.
Good Girls Marry Doctors: Brave Voices On Daughterhood In South Asian American Families

To all the American daughters of South Asian immigrants: Have you ever felt that you just can’t be a Good Girl? Your parents and South Asian community have likely tried drilling in you that Good Girls follow the path of academic excellence, a well-paying job (doctor, lawyer, or engineer), marriage to a well-paid Desi man (preferably a doctor), and then a happy house with kids. Obedience to parents, no dating (at least not while a student), and virginity until marriage are absolutes.
By Curated Content
September 15, 2016
Good Girls Marry Doctors: Brave Voices On Daughterhood In South Asian American Families
Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India
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Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India

By Kirk L. Kroeker, Communications of ACM on 20/1/2011 Gayatri Buragohain, India’s ACM-W Ambassador and a member of the ACM…
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July 15, 2015
Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India
Gallery: Police Brutality
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Gallery: Police Brutality

[slideshow_deploy id=’2951′] how much do adolescent girls know about laws that affect them? | Create Infographics Slideshow Pictures Source: Zubaan…
By Curated Content
June 1, 2014
Gallery: Police Brutality
From Stone Dildos to Sexbots: How Technology is Changing Sex
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From Stone Dildos to Sexbots: How Technology is Changing Sex

Sex and technology link in many different ways – whether its helps overcome a disability or separation from a loved one, or is simply be a way to increase pleasure and excitement.
By Curated Content
November 15, 2018
From Stone Dildos to Sexbots: How Technology is Changing Sex
From Reshma Valliappan to Deepika Padukone
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From Reshma Valliappan to Deepika Padukone

We don’t have an original I-Column this month. Instead we feature the voices of two women, Deepika Padukone and Reshma…
By Curated Content
April 15, 2015
From Reshma Valliappan to Deepika Padukone
From Horses to Headgear, Everything the ‘Mohenjo Daro’ Trailer Has Got Wrong
Pooja Hegde in film 'Mohenjo Daro' wearing a big headdres with white and blue roses, and feathers popping out of it.
From Horses to Headgear, Everything the ‘Mohenjo Daro’ Trailer Has Got Wrong

Bollywood’s period dramas have a history of misrepresenting the past. From Mughal-e-Azam (1960), where the story of Salim’s rebellion is wrongly attributed to love, to Bajirao Mastani (2015) portraying Balaji Bajirao as a Marathi superman, Bollywood cannot seem to get the history right in historical fiction. The trailer and posters of Ashutosh Gowariker’s Mohenjo Daro indicate that this tradition will be perpetuated.
By Curated Content
August 16, 2016
From Horses to Headgear, Everything the ‘Mohenjo Daro’ Trailer Has Got Wrong
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