Feminism

Feminist or Feminazi?
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Feminist or Feminazi?

The use of terms that convert the movement for women’s empowerment into extreme militancy in order to reject the movement altogether is indeed a sombre example of diverting attention from the real problems that exist in society and projecting women’s protests against sexual crimes or standing up for their rights as one of “mob lynchings” or wrongly adducing the news of repealing “Adultery” as a move that allows women to have sexual relations outside of marriage.

By Sanya Talwar
October 15, 2019
Feminist or Feminazi?
Feminism, Marriage, and the Dilemma
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Feminism, Marriage, and the Dilemma

Before I was introduced to theatre and the arts in the 11th standard, the future I saw for myself was…
By Jyotsna Khatry
November 15, 2015
Feminism, Marriage, and the Dilemma
Feminism Through the Ages in India: An Empowering Journey
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Feminism Through the Ages in India: An Empowering Journey

By Sanchari Pal about a year ago A hard hitting film that underlines a woman’s freedom to her body and sexuality, the recently…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2017
Feminism Through the Ages in India: An Empowering Journey
Feminism and Science: Teaching and Learning ‘Science in the Making’
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Feminism and Science: Teaching and Learning ‘Science in the Making’

Chayanika Shah [1] in conversation with Vivek Vellanki Vivek Vellanki: You did your PhD in Physics from IIT in the 1980s,…
By Vivek Vellanki
March 1, 2014
Feminism and Science: Teaching and Learning ‘Science in the Making’
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
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Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy

Everyone talks about how nobody can put a price on how much homemakers do for us, but nobody talks about the kind of behaviour they are subjected to almost every day.

By Anuja Tripathy
November 19, 2024
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality
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Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality

Are certain forms of femininities denigrated more than others? Not just by misogynists but also by feminists? Is there a particular way of manifesting an ‘appropriate’ femininity, one that is just right, and is not ‘too girly’ or ‘too tomboyish’?

By TARSHI
December 15, 2020
Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality
Editorial: Anthology Issue
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Editorial: Anthology Issue

As we move into a new year and a new decade we hope to be moving towards a more just and peaceful world, especially given the troubled times that people all over the world have been and are currently experiencing. And so, in this new year, we wish you lots of SISA spaces through 2020 and beyond!

By TARSHI
January 1, 2020
Editorial: Anthology Issue
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
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Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality

100 issues, 8 years! Thank you, dear readers and contributors! As we planned for this issue to put on our…
By TARSHI
March 15, 2022
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
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Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom

If we are to reimagine coupledom and sexuality, we need to expand and challenge our ideas about togetherness, romance, love, intimacy, desire, sex, attachment, and so on.

By TARSHI
February 15, 2022
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
Dear Diary: The radically feminist creative journalling practice that nobody talks about
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Dear Diary: The radically feminist creative journalling practice that nobody talks about

My journal has many entries that are speculative and fantastic. Writing about the mundane leads me to question the way the world operates and from there I frog-leap into a world of ideas where I imagine a radically different way of being. In my journal, I imagine a politics of care, community, and compassion. I become grand, valuable, and unstoppable, even in a world where I am sometimes made to feel small.
By Sheena D'Lima
July 5, 2021
Dear Diary: The radically feminist creative journalling practice that nobody talks about
Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing
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Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing

In March 2015, a popular Indian comic, Abish Mathew, performed at a college festival at the National Law University (NLU)…
By Noopur Raval
January 4, 2016
Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing
Brushtrokes: Representation in Comics
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Brushtrokes: Representation in Comics

Comicbooks sell us the fantasy of larger-than-life superheroes, the victory of good over evil, the promise of fighting for a better, inclusive world. But alas, when it comes to the characters themselves, this very inclusivity is often nowhere to be found.
By Curated Content
December 3, 2018
Brushtrokes: Representation in Comics
Brushstrokes: Women In India’s Rape Capital
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Brushstrokes: Women In India’s Rape Capital

[slideshow_deploy id=’7290′] The city that has come to be touted as the “rape capital” proves to be the ideal ground…
By Curated Content
November 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: Women In India’s Rape Capital
Brushstrokes: Who We’re Leaving Out of Sex Positivity – And How to Make It More Inclusive
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Brushstrokes: Who We’re Leaving Out of Sex Positivity – And How to Make It More Inclusive

Everyday Feminism’s comic illustrates the complexity and diversity of sexuality, revealing how sex can sometimes be pleasure-affirming and sometimes not, and asks us to talk about ALL KINDS of sex – the good, the bad, and the hilarious.
By Curated Content
August 2, 2021
Brushstrokes: Who We’re Leaving Out of Sex Positivity – And How to Make It More Inclusive
Brushstrokes: These Tweets Delightfully Feminist Up this Classic Bollywood Film
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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
January 5, 2017
Brushstrokes: These Tweets Delightfully Feminist Up this Classic Bollywood Film
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