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The Nun Within: Reflections on our self-care workshops with activists
A photograph of a woman sitting indoors. She has cropped white-grey hair and is looking upwards. She is wearing a black full-sleeved top and her palms are open outwards. She is wearing a black necklace and is smiling. In front of her, a person is half-visible, clad in black, holding out their palms. There are red chairs on the side, and at the back, a person with black short hair, wearing a white top and mask, using a phone, is sitting.

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
Editorial: Support Systems and Sexuality
On a jute-textured background, hand-prints in different colours form the leaves of a tree, the trunk and branches of which are a hand-print.

Connection is essential for our survival – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. We connect with people, form networks of care and support, and in a sense weave webs of safety and comfort that we can turn to when stressed or simply want to infuse a dose of joy into our day.

By TARSHI
November 16, 2020
Editorial: Support Systems and Sexuality
The importance of family
A black and white photograph of an infant’s hand resting on an older individual’s outstretched palm.

Family, immediate and extended, is usually who you turn to. They are the ones who provide stress relief and reduce anxiety by boosting self-confidence and self-esteem and providing a protective shield. There is a sense of belongingness in good times and in bad.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
November 2, 2020
The importance of family
Editorial: Law and Sexuality
A key hanging off blue thread draped around a branch

In our mid-month issue, Stuti Tripathi considers whether raising the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21years is indeed a one-stop solution to check early marriages. She brings to our attention the many factors, such as family pressure, inaccessible educational and financial resources, traditionally defined roles of women, and gender-based marginalisation that together lead to early marriages and argues that young people need rights not protection.

By TARSHI
September 15, 2020
Editorial: Law and Sexuality
Canon Law and Queer Believers
Two androgynously illustrated figures of faces with hearts to symbolise hair close to one another, looking at a trail of hearts emerging from between them and culminating as a fireworks display between them

I am going to share a personal queer reading to help put forth what I mean. One day, while I was reading the gospel of John for my family, the final words of Jesus, made me wonder whether Jesus could have been gay.

By Roshan Roy
September 1, 2020
Canon Law and Queer Believers