Visual Corner
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 Story of Amanirenas, the Fierce Kandake
This month, we’re excited about featuring the story of Amanirenas, one of the most famous Kushite Kandakes, queens of the ancient African kingdom of Kush (what is today the country of Sudan) and her valiant fight against the armies of Rome to defend the boundaries of her people’s land.
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 Many Shades of Fashion
For many people, fashion serves as a vehicle for expressing their unique identities, their political beliefs, and their sexual orientation.
By Pragya Solanki
October 19, 2023
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
Brushstrokes: The AVR Method
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.
By Curated Content
April 5, 2021
Brushstrokes: Strange Like Me
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.
By Curated Content
October 1, 2018
Brushstrokes: Songs of Selfies
[slideshow_deploy id=’6357′] The songs of selfies played its colourful tune, with selfies coming out as musical notes from the gramophone kept…
By Curated Content
July 15, 2015
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
Brushstrokes: Sketches
[slideshow_deploy id=’1299′] Khaki dots the railway station as they try to look official, lolling in their plastic chairs. Routine checking…
By Curated Content
January 1, 2014
Brushstrokes: Singlehood and Sexuality
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.
By Curated Content
February 1, 2021
Brushstrokes: Sigmund Freud on Homosexuality
[slideshow_deploy id=’5774′] The most common jab taken at someone who is not heteronormative is that they are insane, and need…
By Curated Content
April 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: Sexuality Fundas
[slideshow_deploy id=’6406′] How many of us know not to use regular soap to wash our genitals? How many know that…
By TARSHI
August 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: Sexual Fantasies
Have you ever had a “dirty thought”, or rather, a sexual fantasy, at a random hour of a random day?
By Curated Content
August 1, 2018