Activism

This is how we do it
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We need to recognise that mental health stressors that queer people face are not because something is inherently wrong with them.

By Shruti Chakravarty
September 1, 2022
This is how we do it
The ‘Aunty’ Body And All That Follows
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The issue with the ‘Aunty’ body arises from a deeply misogynistic and dehumanising understanding of women. In this imagination the woman, whom the world now addresses as ‘Aunty’, has basically served her purpose of marriage and child bearing, and is hence rendered useless.

By Feminism in India
March 15, 2021
The ‘Aunty’ Body And All That Follows
The Politics of Self Care and Feminism
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In a time when reason is more valued than emotion, unravelling and understanding the politics of self-care becomes all the more fundamental for us, and the movements we seek to develop and build. When our bodies, our emotions and our needs become weapons to be used against us, acts of defiance become rooted in thinking about your self and how we practice it. I find I am faced with more questions than answers, but I also know that asking the questions is the first step to finding the answers

By Curated Content
July 19, 2021
The Politics of Self Care and Feminism
The Nun Within: Reflections on our self-care workshops with activists
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I know that the lives of many human rights defenders are under continuous threat, that sometimes it is impossible to sleep or to enjoy a moment of peace because of the harassment coming from the outside. What I address in this text is our internal disposition as activists, and the ideas that stop us from taking care of and holding ourselves together.

By Rosa Posa Guinea
July 19, 2021
The Nun Within: Reflections on our self-care workshops with activists
The Editorial: The Internet and Sexuality
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Our desire to connect is perhaps one of the human aspirations that both Sexuality and the Internet serve. And with the Internet we now have new ways, unthought of even twenty years ago, of connecting with each other, and even at times with ourselves, finding aspects of our selves that we did not know existed.

By TARSHI
June 15, 2017
The Editorial: The Internet and Sexuality
The Editorial: Art and Activism
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Art has the potential of reaching out to wide and diverse audiences and speaks to them in different ways. Therein…

By TARSHI
July 1, 2014
The Editorial: Art and Activism
Steering Through Singlehood

I am 27 now and marriage is the most brought-up topic of conversation by my parents and relatives. Now, choosing or wanting to stay single is inversely proportional to my reputation, respect, and worthiness.

By Nidhi Chaudhary
February 1, 2021
Steering Through Singlehood
Spinning Straw into Gold: Older Womxn Celebrate Sexuality and Spirituality
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The most satisfying spiritual and sexual experiences I’ve had were not in my twenties, thirties or even forties. They have been in my 50’s. The most insightful spiritual insights, and the most orgasmic orgasms have both arrived in middle age.

By Nighat Gandhi
March 1, 2021
Spinning Straw into Gold: Older Womxn Celebrate Sexuality and Spirituality
Social Media
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By: Women’s Rights Campaigning Info-Activism Toolkit People are more likely to trust – and act on – messages from people they…

By Curated Content
July 15, 2014
Social Media
Rights and Freedom: From Street to Rehabilitation Centre
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The fight for an end to discrimination and violence against sex workers in Cambodia, as in many other parts of the world, has a long way to go.

By WNU
April 5, 2016
Rights and Freedom: From Street to Rehabilitation Centre
Review: Women We Worship, Women We Abuse
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It is almost a year old, but the Abused Goddesses campaign created ripples in the fabric of activism that are…

By Shweta Krishnan
July 1, 2014
Review: Women We Worship, Women We Abuse
Reclaiming Being Single Against Emma Watson’s Self Partnered
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Emma Watson spoke to British Vogue about the incredible amounts of stress and anxiety that follows, “…if you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30, and you’re not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career, or you’re still figuring things out…”

By Feminism in India
February 15, 2021
Reclaiming Being Single Against Emma Watson’s Self Partnered
Playing With Love
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I’m a sucker for love. And I don’t want to be a party pooper either. There is lots I have…

By Jaya Sharma
February 1, 2016
Playing With Love
On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women
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Pandemics have a profound psychological impact. They are known to disrupt one’s sense of safety, security, certainty, control, concordance, and…

By Ansha Patel
July 5, 2021
On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women
New Project Sheds Light on Pakistan’s Lesser Known Feminist History
Uzma Noorani, a human rights activist, sitting on a sofa smiling. She is wearing an orange and pink Indian suit, and has her hair falling on her shoulders.

[slideshow_deploy id=’7496′] It had been there for decades  — a red, blue and white flag unfurling in the wind, an…

By Curated Content
November 15, 2015
New Project Sheds Light on Pakistan’s Lesser Known Feminist History
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