Visual Corner
For many people, fashion serves as a vehicle for expressing their unique identities, their political beliefs, and their sexual orientation.
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.
What if each letter of the alphabet represented a powerful feminist concept?
From being comfortable doing nothing in someone’s company or cooking and laughing together, to confiding in them our hopes and fears, feeling safe letting someone seeing us at our best as well as through our not-so-good moments is like ‘coming home’ in the world.
When you feel “strange”, alienated, divergent from the reigning patriarchal standards of beauty, and are persecuted for it, sometimes all you need is a kindred spirit.
[slideshow_deploy id=’6357′] The songs of selfies played its colourful tune, with selfies coming out as musical notes from the gramophone kept…
A smile could just be an innocuous communication, expressing politeness or warmth. But for a woman out in public, her smile is often misconstrued
[slideshow_deploy id=’1299′] Khaki dots the railway station as they try to look official, lolling in their plastic chairs. Routine checking…
Alankrita Singh brings us a sparse and evocative series of photographs of women out in the world, by themselves. With a quiet defiance, it depicts women interacting with the world, at leisure, resisting the socio-cultural negativity they face when not under the care of men.
[slideshow_deploy id=’5774′] The most common jab taken at someone who is not heteronormative is that they are insane, and need…
[slideshow_deploy id=’6406′] How many of us know not to use regular soap to wash our genitals? How many know that…
Have you ever had a “dirty thought”, or rather, a sexual fantasy, at a random hour of a random day?
If there are hordes of reasons for having sex, and all kinds of activities that count as work, why is it that the act of performing sexual services cannot be accepted as legitimate work?
Liz Hilton illustrates the puzzle in a booklet published by Empower Foundation, Thailand.
[slideshow_deploy id=’5490′] To some Amrita Sher-Gil is the ‘Indian Frida Kahlo’. This month we feature five of her paintings which show women…
Thus, you take to the Internet, with its vast landscape of possibilities, and it becomes your means of finding queer solidarity, queer friendships, and even queer love.