Feminism and Sexuality

Brushstrokes: Women In India’s Rape Capital
An Indian woman on the middle of a road at night. A motorcycle whooshes past her. She is wearing a blue jacket, black jeans, sandals, and is carrying a handbag on her shoulder. Her hair fall on her shoulders.

[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
On Feminism, Sexuality and Disability
1857 painting. Eight women showing personifications of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotomania and paralysis in a garden of a hospice facility in Paris.

  Bula was not happy at being offered a bath and fresh clothes. Food, she would gladly take – but…

By Gunjan Chandak Khemka
November 1, 2015
On Feminism, Sexuality and Disability
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream
Black and white photo of two young women speaking on a stage, reading out from the sheets of paper in their hands. One wears a saree, and has curly hair left open. The other wears a top, and has her hair open falling till her chest. She holds a rectangle-shaped structure in front of her face through which she sees across.

One gets introduced to feminism through various modes: through books, through university courses, through parents and sometimes one does not…

By Jasmine George
November 1, 2015
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream
Of Socks and Sexuality
An anti-suffragette cartoon. A man washing laundry. On the wall, a board reads, "Everybody works but mother: she's a suffragette".

I grew up with a book cupboard where Paul Gallico’s Love of Seven Dolls rubbed shoulders with Germain Greer’s The…

By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2015
Of Socks and Sexuality
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