Arpita Das

Trigger Warnings and the Subversive Potential of Uncomfortable Conversations
against a red background, the white text reads "warning, do not read this sign"

Giving a trigger warning helps to somewhat flatten that hierarchy by making sure the audience is okay with the content. It can also shift power to the audience who may now decide what they would like to do with that information – to stay put and listen, or to walk out.

By Arpita Das
July 2, 2018
Trigger Warnings and the Subversive Potential of Uncomfortable Conversations
What I learned about Self-Care and Wellbeing as a Sexuality Rights Activist
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Working as a sexuality rights activist in a repressive environment can take a huge toll on people’s wellbeing. It is therefore important that we as social workers, activists, advocates and everyone else involved in this work take care, take care of ourselves and each other, be supportive, give that extra push to someone who needs it, and allow ourselves to make mistakes.

By Arpita Das
June 1, 2018
What I learned about Self-Care and Wellbeing as a Sexuality Rights Activist
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT SELF-CARE AND WELLBEING AS A SEXUALITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
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Wellbeing and sexuality for me therefore entailed thinking through and dealing with violence, understanding and acknowledging it as not the entirety of one’s experience, and going through a process of healing.

By Arpita Das
January 4, 2021
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT SELF-CARE AND WELLBEING AS A SEXUALITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
स्वयं की देखभाल एवं खुशहाली के बारे में मेरी सीख

घरेलु हिंसा विषय पर काम कर रही एक नारीवादी संस्था के साथ सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता के रूप में अपने करियर के…

By Arpita Das
June 15, 2018
स्वयं की देखभाल एवं खुशहाली के बारे में मेरी सीख
‘Freedom From Unauthorised Intrusion’?: Interrogating Privacy In Relation To Intersex Bodies
slogan from an intersex rights rally: "fix your hearts not our parts"

For intersex people, privacy or the ‘freedom from unauthorised intrusion’ is constantly violated in which many a times knowledge about their bodies and the interventions carried out on their bodies are not made known to them.

By Arpita Das
September 2, 2019
‘Freedom From Unauthorised Intrusion’?: Interrogating Privacy In Relation To Intersex Bodies