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The Nun Within: Reflections on our self-care workshops with activists
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The Nun Within: Reflections on our self-care workshops with activists

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 Politics of Self Care and Feminism
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The Politics of Self Care and Feminism

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
Video Page: Being Laxmi: ‘I belong to the hijra, the oldest transgender community’
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Video Page: Being Laxmi: ‘I belong to the hijra, the oldest transgender community’

Community – your friends, family, neighbours – can be a source of great strength and support. However, in exchange for…
By Curated Content
July 1, 2017
Video Page: Being Laxmi: ‘I belong to the hijra, the oldest transgender community’
Video: How to be a Friend to Yourself
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Video: How to be a Friend to Yourself

This thought-provoking, luminously illustrated The School of Life video reminds us of self-compassion being essential to building our own selves up, and being a safe space where we can extend the same love and imagination to our vulnerabilities, insecurities, fears, and doubts as we do to our friends.
By Curated Content
July 5, 2021
Video: How to be a Friend to Yourself
When The Stigma Attached to Sex Deprives Women of Worker Status
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When The Stigma Attached to Sex Deprives Women of Worker Status

This stigma of caste, class and sexuality is a pervasive amalgamation of socio-cultural mindsets that take root and function in myriad complex ways, and paint working women in broad, sweeping, agency-less brush strokes.

By Mahika Banerji
June 1, 2019
When The Stigma Attached to Sex Deprives Women of Worker Status
Who would we be if we weren’t trying to survive? A Conversation on the Survival Myth
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Who would we be if we weren’t trying to survive? A Conversation on the Survival Myth

What does it mean to hold space and extend compassion to ourselves and our  communities? Rachel Cargle reminds us to ask ourselves: who  would we be if we weren’t trying to survive? Similarly, what would care and vulnerability look like if we weren’t trying to survive? The anarchy of queerness constantly and necessarily resists the capitalist engineering of the Survival Myth: one that wants us to endure an isolated life instead of embracing it with the radically transformative joy of togetherness. Caring for yourself precedes, succeeds, and exists alongside caring for the collective.
By Rukmini and Soumya
July 19, 2021
Who would we be if we weren’t trying to survive? A Conversation on the Survival Myth
Worlds Within Queer Worlds: Presence, Politics and Diversity
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Worlds Within Queer Worlds: Presence, Politics and Diversity

There is no singular way of being queer or performing queerness. We are all products of converging and diverging histories and our queerness is shaped by forces tangible and intangible in the everyday.
By Sohini Chatterjee
May 1, 2019
Worlds Within Queer Worlds: Presence, Politics and Diversity
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