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Sadhana Chathurvedula and Nirupama V have been exploring the phenomenon of Hallyu, the popularity and fan following of Korean entertainment…
People looking for queer plots in Bollywood are sometimes disappointed, as the focus on marriage in many films seems to suggest that Bollywood is a conservative genre invested in sanctifying reproductive heteronormativity.
We begin this discussion – as it is an ongoing process of understanding on our part – by reiterating that…
The institution of family and the conventional understanding of the same has been conveniently romanticised and glorified in a heteronormative…
In this interview with Shikha Aleya, Maya speaks with a deep knowledge of ground realities about the increasing informalisation of labour and its implications for gender and sexuality, and about what labour rights and inclusion mean in real terms.
When World War II started, one of the important changes in the labour market was a sudden increase in the…
Naomi Osaka has been in the news recently for pulling out of the Tokyo Olympics, refusing to do media interviews…
Every year since I was 20, I’ve been visiting an entirely new place on my birthday as a way of…
This article was originally published here. 6th July 2021 Nayantara Ranganathan Nayantara is a researcher and lawyer working on the…
This article was originally published here. This article aims to be for everyone and thus not something someone can dismiss…
This article was originally published here. An elementary reading of feminist literature and politics in India reveals that Savitribai Phule…
Some weeks ago, I was invited by the British High Commission to give a talk about sexual harassment at the…
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’.
The pandemic has put us through interesting times, to say the least – of reflecting, learning, realigning, thinking about what really matters, a time to pause and care for ourselves with kindness. At TARSHI, we’re just delighted to have been able to do the same – while also sharing something of what we’ve learnt with you.
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.