Brushstrokes
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
Brushstrokes: Closets
Robot Hugs, in their insightful comic, take on closets as inherently oppressive structures built to uphold what is acceptable and…
By Curated Content
July 1, 2020
Brushstrokes: Do These People ‘Look Healthy’ to You? Here’s Why It Sucks to Judge Health by Appearance
We often look at people and, based on their appearance, assume that they are ‘healthy’ or not. Here is an…
By Curated Content
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: Finding Home
For a lot of queer people, ‘home’ can hold complicated meanings. The space of one’s home can be fraught with bigotry and alienation, and be far from safe or comforting. And so, there is a quest to find alternate ‘homes’, to find a space where we feel truly accepted, safe and protected.
By Curated Content
April 1, 2020
Brushstrokes:The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction
Considering how sexuality was a running (and selling) theme in pulp fiction stories, and female sexuality was employed as a means to titillate and attract readers, the covers often reflected this.
By Curated Content
Brushstrokes: Healthy Relationships
Just as there are diverse ways of expressing and experiencing one’s sexuality, pleasure, too, is experienced in multiple forms and through multiple practices in each relationship.
By Curated Content
February 3, 2020
Brushstrokes: Reproductive Rights
Though, in common rhetoric, it is often seen as the right to seek an abortion, it goes much beyond that to encompass a larger ambit of rights, and is applicable beyond simply a heteronormative framework of ‘reproduction’.
By Curated Content
December 2, 2019
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: Harassment
Whether it is by checking harassment from fellow men, or by questioning one’s own internalisation of subtly sexist and harmful behaviour, there’s a whole range of ways to go about making a positive shift
By Curated Content
October 1, 2019
Brushstrokes: Privacy
From maintaining safety to the maintaining of boundaries, privacy plays a crucial role in informing our sexuality and preserving our sexual wellbeing
By Curated Content
September 2, 2019
Brushstrokes: Smile – The World is Watching
A smile could just be an innocuous communication, expressing politeness or warmth. But for a woman out in public, her smile is often misconstrued
By Curated Content
August 1, 2019
Coded/Un-Coded: Unpacking Erotic Tales from Ancient Lanka
As much as the dominant narrative sometimes wishes to tell us otherwise, erotica has been with us for a long time.
By Subha and Thilini
Brushstrokes: Privilege
Often, we take certain things for granted, forgetting that there are certain privileges and power dynamics which we benefit from even if we don’t realise it. Though, sometimes, there are other benefits that aren’t available to us, social or cultural factors that do hinder us in some ways, we may still have areas in which we’re more advantaged than others
By Curated Content
June 1, 2019
Brushstrokes: Body
“Every type of body is beautiful, and more importantly every type of body is different,” says artist Veer Mishra while describing Body, his series of illustrations. This ‘difference’ is the essence of what he tries to portray through his art.
By Curated Content
May 1, 2019