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How womxn in the global south are RECLAIMING SOCIAL MEDIA to shine the spotlight on disability
This article was originally published here under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Genna & Felix by Kate Arthur. Image source: @katearthurartist A university…
By Curated Content
How We Reimagine and Redefine Freedoms
Every part of life, the world too, is storied. Stories are the thread that hold histories and truths together. Stories are at the core of myth-making. Everything that we know is part of multiple crisscrossing relational storylines that we raise and those that we have no power in raising.
By Curated Content
March 15, 2022
How We Can Make Our Cities Safer Using Crowdsourced Data
Sexual violence is a global pandemic affecting one in three women at least once in their lifetime. The statistics in India are equally shocking. National Crime Records Bureau statistics of 2014 indicate that a rape occurs every 20 minutes in India.
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
How To Make Me Come
This piece won’t write itself as an opinion piece or a review of experiences that happened or were bound to…
By Greeshma Gireesh
February 1, 2016
How to Have Good Sex?
During my interaction with students as a part of sexuality education classes in schools, one frequently asked question by boys is,“How to charm a girl?”
By Ramya Anand
September 4, 2018
How the popular media fails representation of women
Being a journalism student once, and having a network of seniors and batch mates who came from a journalism background,…
By Anshul Tewari
October 15, 2014
How Scarlett Johansson Helped me Challenge Disfigurement Stigma
Adam Pearson was born with a condition that causes tumours to grow on his face. But acting with Scarlett Johansson in ‘Under the Skin’ is changing the way people look at him.
By Curated Content
How Queer are your Dating Apps?
Online dating websites and apps are one of those technological innovations that people did not think would ever do well….
By Smita Vanniyar
June 15, 2017
How Popular Culture is Changing to Bring Women’s Desires to the Forefront
Female sexuality isn’t in the closet any more. If you look at the spate of films that have been released in the past couple of years, they seem to tell us that women mouth expletives, watch porn and don’t mind talking about orgasms—things taken for granted when it comes to men.
By Curated Content
How Pakistani and Indian Women in Three Countries Confront Marital Economic Abuse
From not being allowed to work to having their earnings exploited, many women confront economic abuse, a recognised form of domestic abuse.
By Curated Content
How Not To Talk About ‘Women’s Safety’ In Public Spaces
The only thing this language achieves (and maybe it is also the goal), is to create enough panic so that women themselves police and restrict their own mobility and whereabouts, and keep themselves away from public spaces whenever possible.
By Curated Content
April 15, 2020
How My Teen Dating at Film Festivals Turned Into Love
My first ‘date’ was at a festival screening of an understated French-Canadian film that featured a tremendous amount of chatter and Chopin. I qualify ‘date’ because, while I was certainly on the brink of tumbling head over heels, the object of my affection, let’s call her ObjA, was blithely unaware of the romantic hopes that hinged upon our meeting.
By Parvati Sharma
January 5, 2017
How my Memory Introduced me to my Caste
Historically, morality has been a privilege of the Savarna, and sexuality has been the fort that Savarna men seek to protect through patriarchy.
By dyuti
April 2, 2018
How much support is enough?
In the middle of this pandemic, can one seek sexual support in the form of a hook up with one’s best friend, ‘just because’? Is it redefining boundaries, is it sympathy sex, is it simple indulgence, or is it something that one or both might later resent?
By Asmi
November 2, 2020
How much support is enough?
This article was originally published here. This article not based on any studies I know of, but then I know…
By Asmi
January 3, 2022