Visual Corner
Brushstrokes: Married Young
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.
By Curated Content
May 1, 2016
Brushstrokes: Labour and Sexuality: 12+ Ways Job Applications Discriminate Against Applicants
Orginal link: https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/07/jobs-discriminate-applicants/ Leave aside being able to get and retain a job, sometimes even being considered for one…
By Curated Content
Brushstrokes: Inside Singapore’s Only Shelter For Homeless Transgender Women
June and her late sister Irene (who was also transgender) took it upon themselves to “to give and do more for others”, and together they began the first shelter for homeless transwomen in Singapore.
By Curated Content
Brushstrokes: Indian Teen Artist Reimagines Goddesses As Modern-Day Feminists
Bringing to life five goddesses from across the world, 17-year-old Priyanka Paul from India has used illustration to reimagine these…
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Brushstrokes: Illustrations That Sum Up Being in a Relationship When You Have ADHD
In this set of illustrations, Caroline Kee of BuzzFeed shows what it’s like to be in a relationship as someone with ADHD. The illustrations cover everything from dates, sex, and stigma, while also acknowledging the nuances of being in a relationship with someone who does not have ADHD.
By Curated Content
BRUSHSTROKES: ILLUSTRATIONS THAT SUM UP BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP WHEN YOU HAVE ADHD
What happens to love, romance and sex when you have a disorder like ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? Are they…
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Brushstrokes: How Ideas of Purity Damage Our Mental Sexual Health (And Happiness)
How, then, can one shed such harmful modes of thinking around sex, sexuality, and sexual purity, and work towards not only a greater self-awareness, but positive sexual mental health?
By Curated Content
Brushstrokes: Hotel Rooms
For the last seven years, I have been working on a body of work titled Hotel Rooms themed around fluid male sexuality, mental health, queerness, and challenging deep-rooted societal gender binaries.
June 16, 2023
Brushstrokes: Here’s What It Really Means to Be a Furry
Who is a Furry? What’s a ‘fursona’ – is it like a persona? What’s Furry fandom all about? What happens at Furry conventions? Do they dress up in animal suits? Christine Denewithe answers all these questions, and more, in this enchantingly executed comic.
By Curated Content
November 1, 2021
Brushstrokes: Healthy Relationships
Just as there are diverse ways of expressing and experiencing one’s sexuality, pleasure, too, is experienced in multiple forms and through multiple practices in each relationship.
By Curated Content
February 3, 2020
Brushstrokes: Having Trouble Explaining Oppression?
We often use the words prejudice, discrimination, and oppression interchangeably, and while they intersect and feed into each other within…
By Curated Content
September 1, 2021
Brushstrokes: Harassment
Whether it is by checking harassment from fellow men, or by questioning one’s own internalisation of subtly sexist and harmful behaviour, there’s a whole range of ways to go about making a positive shift
By Curated Content
October 1, 2019
Brushstrokes: Happy Doodles
We found these heart-warming doodles that are dedicated to staying conscious of things that matter for our personal well-being and our relationships with others but that we tend to lose touch with from time to time.
By Curated Content
February 3, 2017
BRUSHSTROKES: HAPPY DOODLES
We found these heart-warming doodles that are dedicated to staying conscious of things that matter for our personal well-being and our relationships with others but that we tend to lose touch with from time to time.
By Curated Content
January 4, 2021
Brushstrokes: Growing Up Matrilineally in Meghalaya
When patriarchy, patrilineality and patrilocality are the norm in most societies, those communities that do things differently tend to stand out, and the liberties afforded by this difference shape its people, as the photographers of these two series of portraits capture.
By Curated Content
May 15, 2017