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Brushstrokes: Word’s Worth
[slideshow_deploy id=’6411′] In a culture where sex is depicted all over media messaging, it’s funny how the word itself is…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2015
Brushstrokes: Women In India’s Rape Capital
[slideshow_deploy id=’7290′] The city that has come to be touted as the “rape capital” proves to be the ideal ground…
By Curated Content
November 1, 2015
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
Brushstrokes: Why Being Asexual Doesn’t Mean I’m ‘Broken’
There are a lot of prejudices and misconceptions about asexual people. This comic on Everyday Feminism sensitises us to asexuality through a deeply felt real-life story of finding love as an asexual person.
By Curated Content
February 1, 2022
Brushstrokes: Who We’re Leaving Out of Sex Positivity – And How to Make It More Inclusive
Everyday Feminism’s comic illustrates the complexity and diversity of sexuality, revealing how sex can sometimes be pleasure-affirming and sometimes not, and asks us to talk about ALL KINDS of sex – the good, the bad, and the hilarious.
By Curated Content
Brushstrokes: Who We’re Leaving Out of Sex Positivity – And How to Make It More Inclusive
This post was originally published here. While sex-positive spaces affirm our right to pleasurable sexuality, they might leave out experiences…
By Curated Content
Brushstrokes: When Ganja fell in love with Mahua
The Ganja-Mahua Chronicles is an art project that draws attention to the role that marriage plays in upholding India’s caste…
By Curated Content
October 3, 2017
Brushstrokes: Welcome home, buddy
On our search for a companion, we often find ourselves putting our best foot forward. What happens when the tables…
By Curated Content
May 1, 2020
Brushstrokes: Vulnerability and Sexuality
Her artworks illustrate discoveries, intimacies, and vulnerabilities during a time when identities are coalescing that may affect how we eventually come to become.
By Prachee Batra
April 19, 2021
Brushstrokes: Travelling Across Beauty Standards
Graphic designers from 18 countries across the world were asked to Photoshop a single image of a young woman, and…
By Curated Content
March 1, 2016
Brushstrokes: This Visual Artist Stirs Up Reality with His Personal Portraits
Now, You Can Go Home is a compilation of photo works created in the past two years and continues to be an open project where each photograph performs a story about explorations of different characters providing glimpses of them in fear, self-acceptance, longing and celebration.
By Curated Content
Brushstrokes: These Tweets Delightfully Feminist Up this Classic Bollywood Film
Twitter was hashtagging the 21st anniversary of the classic Bollywood film, ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ (1995) a few months ago, a human rights organisation did a fun take on it by asking its followers to feminist up the film’s iconic dialogue, “Ja, Simran, Ja”.
By Curated Content
Brushstrokes: The Sound of Laughter*
[slideshow_deploy id=’8255′] [slideshow_deploy id=’8268′] “I want to put forward laughter and detachment as ways of resisting and refusing patriarchy by…
By Debolina Dutta
January 18, 2016
Brushstrokes: The Hypocrisy of Pro-Life Rhetoric
Pro-life arguments have invoked faith and religion to decry a person’s right to seek an abortion, and the right to decide what to do with one’s body. But, as Everyday Feminism’s comic, The Hypocrisy of Pro-Life Rhetoric, breaks it down for us, it is not with religion or faith where the problem lies.
By Curated Content
November 1, 2019
Brushstrokes: The Feminist Alphabet
What if each letter of the alphabet represented a powerful feminist concept?
By Curated Content
May 1, 2018