Feminism in India

On Healing: Envisioning Safe Queer Spaces And Practicing Accountability
On Healing: Envisioning Safe Queer Spaces And Practicing Accountability
On Healing: Envisioning Safe Queer Spaces And Practicing Accountability

This post was originally posted here. By Trishala Dutta October 28, 2021 — TW: Mention of violence and abuse Between…
By Feminism in India
April 18, 2022
On Healing: Envisioning Safe Queer Spaces And Practicing Accountability
Loving My Dysfunctional Body: Lessons In Self Love After A Decade Of Self-Loathing
An illustration of four people on a beige background. Each person has multicoloured bouquet of flowers instead of hair, and flowers wrapped around different parts of their bodies. Each person is performing different acts of self-love - the one on the far left is applying is shaving flowers from their forearm, the one next to them is hugging themselves with their eyes closed, the next one is looking into a round hand mirror and the one on the far right has one leg on a chair and is shaving flowers from their leg. A branch of thorns and flowers threads through the background.
Loving My Dysfunctional Body: Lessons In Self Love After A Decade Of Self-Loathing

My body presented to me the first paradox in my feminism that I would encounter. How could I claim to be a feminist if I was not proud of the body I was born in? My advocacy as a sixth grader seemed to fail when it came to my own self.

By Feminism in India
March 15, 2022
Loving My Dysfunctional Body: Lessons In Self Love After A Decade Of Self-Loathing
Tryst With Kink: Brushstrokes Of BDSM On My Sexuality
A yellow background with an illustration of an instant film photo. The illustration depicts a naked person’s lower back and buttocks, and they are handcuffed behind. On the bottom white part of the photo’s illustration, there is a signature.
Tryst With Kink: Brushstrokes Of BDSM On My Sexuality

The responsibilities attached to BDSM are frankly the same as that for any other sex act. But since the submissive partner(s) are placing themselves at a position of vulnerability, these responsibilities mark the difference between sex and abuse. Have fun, but responsibly.
By Feminism in India
December 15, 2021
Tryst With Kink: Brushstrokes Of BDSM On My Sexuality
Queer Fanfiction: Changing The Hetero Narrative Of Pop Culture
Queer Fanfiction: Changing The Hetero Narrative Of Pop Culture

This article was originally published here. I read my first piece of fanfiction at the age of fifteen. It was…
By Feminism in India
November 15, 2021
Queer Fanfiction: Changing The Hetero Narrative Of Pop Culture
A Marxist-Feminist Reading Of Sexual Division of Labour In Family
A Marxist-Feminist Reading Of Sexual Division of Labour In Family

The institution of family and the conventional understanding of the same has been conveniently romanticised and glorified in a heteronormative…
By Feminism in India
October 18, 2021
A Marxist-Feminist Reading Of Sexual Division of Labour In Family
The Rebellious, Radical Act Of Queer, Disabled Love
The Rebellious, Radical Act Of Queer, Disabled Love

Editor’s Note: Criplentine’s Day is a project by Revival Disability Magazine rooted in the belief that all kinds of love should…
By Feminism in India
August 16, 2021
The Rebellious, Radical Act Of Queer, Disabled Love
Brushstrokes: Women At Leisure: Photo Essay On Pastime As A Feminist Issue
A set of two photographs, on the left a coloured photograph of a woman hanging from a tree with orange flowers, on the right a black and white photograph of a woman looking at her left eye in a hand-held mirror and applying make-up.
Brushstrokes: Women At Leisure: Photo Essay On Pastime As A Feminist Issue

Inspired to collect photographs of women spending time by themselves and for themselves after a conversation with her mother’s friend, Surabhi Yadav began the project, Women at Leisure.
By Feminism in India
July 5, 2021
Brushstrokes: Women At Leisure: Photo Essay On Pastime As A Feminist Issue
Video: How Can Women & Non-Binary People Combat Online Violence?
A screenshot of Feminism in India's video How Can Women & Non-Binary People Combat Online Violence? In the middle is Japleen Pasricha, the founder of Feminism in India. She is wearing a grey-black full-sleeved shirt and her eyes are closed. She has deep brown hair reaching under her shoulders on both sides. Behind her is a wooden cupboard stacked with books, and a poster in blue with a woman holding a sign saying 'SMASH BRAHMINICAL PATRIARCHY'. On her left is an illustration that says, in pink, VOYEURISM and above it, an illustration with white circles on black to denote binoculars and a woman's silhouette at the centre. At the bottom of the screenshot are the subtitles: "(a)nd voyeurism, where someone records you in your private moments without your consent."
Video: How Can Women & Non-Binary People Combat Online Violence?

Japleen Pasricha, founder of Feminism in India, lays bare the violence women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and historically marginalised communities face in online spaces, ranging from identity theft, bullying, trolling, to having our private photographs and details disseminated without our consent and being blackmailed.

By Feminism in India
May 15, 2021
Video: How Can Women & Non-Binary People Combat Online Violence?
The Struggle Of Beauty Workers In On-Demand Digital Platform
A screenshot of the Feminism in India illustration for the article. An illustration. On a green background which denotes a building, two women talking. One is wearing a yellow dress and has black hair tied in a bun. She is saying, depicted in a black bubble with white lettering, '10 MINUTES LATE BOOKING CANCEL' and on the other side is a woman in an olive top and a brown backpack. Her hair is in a ponytail and she is looking at the other woman with a white phone in her hand. Underneath, in white typography, 'The Struggle of Beauty Workers In On-Demand Digital Platforms'. On the top-left corner is Feminism in India's logo.
The Struggle Of Beauty Workers In On-Demand Digital Platform

If you live in an urban metropolitan city, you must have seen women dressed up in company uniform, carrying a heavy bag on their shoulders, their attire shouting a brand name with logos all over her. Their bodies become an advertising ground for a company’s marketing. Sometimes, the bag is a portable salon that they carry to their client’s (home), who book the beauty service using a mobile application. These ‘workers’ enroll themselves on the platform company that operates as an intermediary, to get bookings on-demand.
By Feminism in India
May 15, 2021
The Struggle Of Beauty Workers In On-Demand Digital Platform
The ‘Aunty’ Body And All That Follows
A photograph of a pen-and-paper illustration of two women, depicted as stereotypical ‘Auntys’ in the Indian context, talking to each other.
The ‘Aunty’ Body And All That Follows

The issue with the ‘Aunty’ body arises from a deeply misogynistic and dehumanising understanding of women. In this imagination the woman, whom the world now addresses as ‘Aunty’, has basically served her purpose of marriage and child bearing, and is hence rendered useless.

By Feminism in India
March 15, 2021
The ‘Aunty’ Body And All That Follows
Reclaiming Being Single Against Emma Watson’s Self Partnered
On a pick background with blue spots and black stripes, a photo of actor Emma Watson is superimposed with yellow lines drawn around her.
Reclaiming Being Single Against Emma Watson’s Self Partnered

Emma Watson spoke to British Vogue about the incredible amounts of stress and anxiety that follows, “…if you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30, and you’re not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career, or you’re still figuring things out…”
By Feminism in India
February 15, 2021
Reclaiming Being Single Against Emma Watson’s Self Partnered
People Were Quick To Assign Me The Label Of Tomboy
People Were Quick To Assign Me The Label Of Tomboy

This article was originally published in Feminism in India At the age of eight, dresses became scarce in my cupboard….
By Feminism in India
December 15, 2020
People Were Quick To Assign Me The Label Of Tomboy
जेंडर के ढाँचे से जूझता मेरा बचपन
जेंडर के ढाँचे से जूझता मेरा बचपन

यह लेख मूल रूप में फेमिनिज्म इन इंडिया में प्रकाशित हुआ था। शशांक मैं बचपन से ही बहुत ही नटखट,…
By Feminism in India
December 15, 2020
जेंडर के ढाँचे से जूझता मेरा बचपन
We Need To Talk About Unsafe Sex And Our Dilemmas Around Using Contraception
An illustration, on a green background, of a woman and a man. The woman is holding up a condom wrapped in red.
We Need To Talk About Unsafe Sex And Our Dilemmas Around Using Contraception

The scope for unsafe sex, as discussed earlier, extends to STIs and STDs and therefore, the feeling of ‘un-safety’ during sexual intercourse must expand itself to actively include infections as an equally important factor for using contraceptives, as are unwanted pregnancies.

By Feminism in India
October 15, 2020
We Need To Talk About Unsafe Sex And Our Dilemmas Around Using Contraception
COVID-19: Can A Health Crisis Become A Breeding Site For Gender Inequality?
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COVID-19: Can A Health Crisis Become A Breeding Site For Gender Inequality?

The novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has become a breeding site of gender inequality with social distancing measures that threaten…
By Feminism in India
June 15, 2020
COVID-19: Can A Health Crisis Become A Breeding Site For Gender Inequality?
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