Body
“I was not a wanted child. Of course I am a girl, and that explains it. It’s like no one really cares if I exist. My brothers are useless, but they are everything to them(her parents). It’s not like he (her lover) needs me either; I still take food for him everyday.”
they say my body is broken they look at me with pity but little do they know when i scream…
Kakar talks about the divide between Ayurveda and modern medicine, Freudian psychoanalysis and Indian metaphysics, and the fault lines between colonialism, religion and sexuality.
This piece won’t write itself as an opinion piece or a review of experiences that happened or were bound to…
You should venture to read Emily Nagoski’s book, Come As You Are in public. Not because you want to make…
In one sense, the body is what I immediately am. In another sense, I am separated from it by the…
It’s sad that we think we own our bodies: the bodies we love, the bodies we hate, the bodies we…
i want to 377 you so bad till even the sheets hurt i want to ache your knees singe your…
The medical ward is often continuous with the world around it. One would like to think of it as an…
[slideshow_deploy id=’6158′] I remember the first time I learnt of menstruation as a ten year old. One of our friends…
My experience of school, as I remember it, was quite conflicted. As a child I lacked the vocabulary to describe…
[slideshow_deploy id=’6065′] The following photographs question our notions of beauty and an ‘ideal’ body. Rahul Saharan shot a series of…
Nidhi Goyal is a gender and disability rights activist from Mumbai, India. Anisha Dutt: Your journey as a disability and gender rights activist…
It’s (already!) mid-2015: advocates, activists, development workers, policy wonks working on the ‘new development agenda’ or ‘sustainable development goals’ or…
The body is our tangible hacker of the world. It experiences the world and the world experiences it. I do…