Visual Corner
In the Chinese province of Yunnan, ‘early marriage’ is a common phenomenon. Dearth of employment opportunities compels parents to marry off their children before leaving for work in bigger cities. The cultural trend favours early marriage, so there is no social stigma attached to it.
Imtiaz Ali’s 5-minute film begins as any trite gangster flick but rapidly flips things around both in narrative and in audience perception.
If there are hordes of reasons for having sex, and all kinds of activities that count as work, why is it that the act of performing sexual services cannot be accepted as legitimate work?
Liz Hilton illustrates the puzzle in a booklet published by Empower Foundation, Thailand.
“‘Dhandewali’s must smoke; paan is a must; a ‘dhandewali’ can never escape her identity; ‘dhandewali’s must dress ‘differently’… Spanning over 6 decades of Bollywood cinema, ‘Zinda Laash’ highlights how very little has changed across the ages when it comes to the industry’s representation of women in prostitution. Humorously drawing attention to stereotypes, while poignantly highlighting myths, ‘Zinda Laash’ is a tribute to every sex worker who is not recognised as a woman or a human being.”
The gang rape and murder of New Delhi’s Jyoti Singh in December 2012 shook up the country’s urban collective conscience. Kavita Krishnan’s erudite feminist leadership emerged from the incident’s aftermath – a powerful voice of outrage against the curtailing of freedom and mobility.
Graphic designers from 18 countries across the world were asked to Photoshop a single image of a young woman, and…
Recurring themes of women and loneliness occur in the illustrations of Idalia Candelas. Her drawings are a mix of ink,…
A moving short film by Mira Nair on the anguish we subject ourselves to when faced with the inexplicable power…
[slideshow_deploy id=’8255′] [slideshow_deploy id=’8268′] “I want to put forward laughter and detachment as ways of resisting and refusing patriarchy by…
Twitter has been rumbling with chuckles and giggles over the last few days with a trending slew of Tweets and…
[slideshow_deploy id=’7634′] In 2006, Indian-born artist and photographer Sunil Gupta created a series of photographs of the daily lives of…
Watch media theorist, linguist and philosopher, Wolfgang Sutzl interview feminist historian and cultural critic Lata Mani about the impact of neoliberalism…
[slideshow_deploy id=’7290′] The city that has come to be touted as the “rape capital” proves to be the ideal ground…