Voices
This article was originally published here. The canvas of a city is experiential – from the walls and windows that…
The desire for intimacy might rob one of the intimacy that one shares with oneself and thus, being with the beloved can leave one feeling even lonelier because of the continuing struggle for validation and comfort.
In the uncertainty and volatility of the pandemic, Pramada Menon examines what has changed for herself, for the world, and for the various attributes of the workplace – mentorship, conversations, power, and purpose, among others.
A kiss for the side of your neck One for the last of your back For a year that we…
Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, has perhaps been South Korea’s most prominent cultural export – first touching China and Japan,…
As soon as we think of sports, we also think of fans. But the nature of fans has most often…
When World War II started, one of the important changes in the labour market was a sudden increase in the…
When peeking into the universe of sex work, it is imperative to locate the various identities sex workers live with,…
Today as I write about my mother’s and chechi’s experiences through an intersectional feminist lens, I wonder who will pay for their physical and emotional labour. I wonder who will take responsibility for the loss of their youth. Who will take responsibility for the wear and tear that their bodies sustained from years of negligence? Most importantly, who will silence the mouths that say, “What ever did you do?”
Lisa calls such a model of marriage “sexist, out-dated and unrealistic.” Guess what? This sexist, out-dated and unrealistic model of marriage is the very model in vogue in our part of the world. Such a marriage model that should make parents of about-to-enter-matrimony women lose sleep, but this is the very model most parents are eager to shove their daughters into. Indeed such sexist marriages are the cause for over-the-top, days-long celebrations: i.e. the big, fat, horrendously expensive desi wedding.
I visited a woman in her late 30s at her house, as part of data collection for a study. She…
Some weeks ago, I was invited by the British High Commission to give a talk about sexual harassment at the…
Fifteen percent of the global population lives with a disability1, and these are the recorded numbers only for officially recognized disabilities….
What vindicates the argument that women with disabilities (WWDs) should be deprived of sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights is scary. Harmful stereotypes of WWDs include the belief that they are hypersexual, incapable, irrational and lacking control. These narratives are then often used to build other perceptions such as that WWDs are inherently vulnerable and should be ‘protected from sexual attack’.
I know that the lives of many human rights defenders are under continuous threat, that sometimes it is impossible to sleep or to enjoy a moment of peace because of the harassment coming from the outside. What I address in this text is our internal disposition as activists, and the ideas that stop us from taking care of and holding ourselves together.