Visual Corner
This Pinup Series Portrays Indian Women (Accurately) As Sexually Liberated Badasses
“Badass Indian Pinups” – a series of paintings by Indo-Canadian artist Nimisha Bhanot shows Indian women breaking traditional stereotypes. Women…
By Curated Content
These Pictures Give Voice to a Transwoman’s Assertion of Her Right to Equality
In the middle of such tightness around who can marry whom, where and how one can marry, and what kind of marriages are given social and legal sanction, we came across the story of Madhuri Sarode, a transwoman, transgender rights activist and classical dancer, and Jay Sharma, a machine operator in a steel goods manufacturing unit, who married each other in December last year.
By Curated Content
The Millennium Development Goals: An Overview of the Success So Far
[slideshow_deploy id=’6698′] The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have not always been easy to understand. In this set of posters the…
By Curated Content
September 1, 2015
The Invisible Labour of Women – Scratching the Surface | Vitamin Stree & BuzzFeed India
This snappy video from Vitamin Stree in collaboration with BuzzFeed India scratches the surface of so-called equality and reveals…
By Curated Content
February 1, 2014
The Fearless Campaign
[slideshow_deploy id=’1470′] In India, we are constantly confronted by images of what Indian women should be. Goddess on walls portray…
By Shilo Shiv Suleman
February 1, 2014
the fearless campaign
[slideshow_deploy id=’1470′] In India, we are constantly confronted by images of what Indian women should be. Goddess on walls portray…
By Shilo Shiv Suleman
December 1, 2014
Short Film: Oruvannukku Oruththi? (A Man For a Woman?)
Our sexuality is often in flux – being manoeuvred (sometimes in ways we cannot control) by the crashing waves of societal expectations, circumstances, and our own choices and experiences. But the world continues to uphold a fixed, rigid idea of sexuality, and continues to confine us within this idea, and therein lies the conflict.
By Curated Content
August 1, 2019
October 1, 2014
Safe Abortion Now
Stencil art on the streets of Yogyakarta to voice rights to safe abortion for women in Indonesia.
By Tia Setiyani
April 1, 2014
Review: Private Life
What makes a family? In the month of May, we celebrated Mother’s Day on the 10th and the International Day…
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
June 1, 2020
Pyaar Plus: The Story of Nisha and Chetan
In this video, Nisha and Chetan set the record straight about love, attraction, and disability. Nisha’s life changed after a spinal cord injury that led her to use a wheelchair. She thought romance was off the cards for her – until Chetan came into her life.
By Curated Content
August 3, 2017