Blog Roll
Marriage and sexuality in the 21st century
The meetings with Nakul had made me feel interminably uneasy and awfully awkward. It was like going on a date knowing that your choice would be for life, it was more pressure on the heart than I had ever imagined.
By Curated Content
March 15, 2017
Four Indian Hindu-Muslim Couples Across Four Generations Tell Us How Love Is A Fight They Didn’t Give Up On
We spoke to four Hindu-Muslim couples from four generations to learn how to keep love afloat in this climate of naked hatred.
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Women, Too, Have the Right to Fun
Relatively speaking, women, particularly upper-middle-class women, have greater legitimacy in the new privatized spaces of consumption like shopping malls and coffee shops than in public spaces like parks or promenades. However, these are far from uncontested spaces
By Curated Content
February 18, 2017
Politicising Self-Care and Wellbeing in Activism as Women Human Rights Defenders
Stress, burn out, uncontrollable emotional outbursts, depression, anxiety, migraines and cancer, are some of the effects that human rights defense work has on women human rights defenders (WHRD)s around the world, and the ones that often make them quit their important work. AWID spoke with Jessica Horn, Senior Advisor for the African Institute for Integrated Responses to Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (AIR) about the politics of self-care and well-being for WHRDs.
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Four Self-Care Resources for Days When the World is Terrible
The onslaught of news about violence against people of color seems to be endless these days. In the midst of all of this we remember the words of writer and activist Audre Lorde, who famously said that self-care is both an act of self-preservation and political warfare.
By Curated Content
February 18, 2017
Representations of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Women in Popular Media
We need to think about the kind of film we would like to see as queer people.
By Curated Content
Sex, Honour, Shame and Blackmail in an Online World
Thousands of young women in conservative societies across North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia are being shamed or blackmailed with private and sometimes sexually explicit images. A look at how smartphones and social media are colliding head-on with traditional notions of honour and shame.
By Curated Content
January 16, 2017
The Rape of Avanthika
Bahubali features one of the longest scenes of romanticised symbolic violation ever seen on screen. Why are we not angered by it?
By Curated Content
January 16, 2017
A Bottle of Liquor: How Bastar’s Adivasis Settle Disputes Over Love and Sex
A sense of humour, easy solutions and liquor as compensation help keep things simple. The Hirma episode is one of…
By Curated Content
Snippets from the Indian LGBT Movement: Extracted from Records in SAATHII Calcutta’s LGBT Support Centre Reference Library
As an organized political movement the Indian LGBT movement is still quite young, having taken its first steps only in the early 1990s. However, it is not as if the movement started overnight. Rather it was a result of several visible and invisible developments taking place over the years in the world and Indian contexts.
By Curated Content
Women’s Sexual Fantasies – the Latest Scientific Research
Dr Raj Persaud Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Jenny Bivona Clinical psychologist A team of psychologists led by a woman has uncovered some…
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November 15, 2016
India’s raped comic ‘super hero’ returns to fight acid attacks
“The reason I chose this subject is because there’s a clear co-relation between rape and acid attacks. The patriarchy, the social stigma and the attitude towards victims are the same in both. In fact, I think the lack of empathy for acid attack survivors is ten times more because their scars are visible,” he says.
By Curated Content
November 15, 2016
The Government Must Rethink the Surrogacy Bill
The draft Bill appears to have been framed without addressing the actual concerns of the surrogacy arrangements in India, and could do more harm than good by leading to the exploitation of women.
By Curated Content
October 17, 2016
South Korea Plans Lifelong Parenting Education
South Korea is planning to provide people with lifelong parenting education in the hope that it will prevent child abuse, it’s reported.
By Curated Content
October 17, 2016
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