Gender
Video Page: Find Your Beautiful
While the video’s message of women finding self-worth through beauty can be construed as sexist (our worth can’t be reduced to mere beauty and looks), and it also has the token ‘fat’ woman that one can criticise it for, one also can’t deny that the loving and acceptance of one’s body remains a universal, daily struggle of probably every woman the world over.
By Curated Content
May 1, 2016
Issue In Focus: A Travelling Sexuality
Travel and sexuality throws up different thoughts and feelings for us all. For me, it threw up the term travelling sexuality. I like it. Travelling sexuality. It sounds exotic or intellectual, adventurous, dangerous, depending on who you are and how you live life. A travelling sexuality could describe the way we evolve as sexual beings, shifting and changing identities.
By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2016
Nazrein Milana, Nazrein Churana OR Your Selfie’s Eye: An Anecdotal Reflection
In 2013, ‘selfie’ entered the Oxford English Dictionary. By 2015, with front-facing phone cameras available on the cheapest of smartphones,…
By Paromita Vohra
The Editorial: Feminism and Sexuality
“Ab dil karta hai haule haule se Main toh khud ko gale lagaun Kisi aur ki mujhko zaroorat kya Main…
By TARSHI
November 15, 2015
Video Page: Lata Mani on Neoliberalisation and Gender
Watch media theorist, linguist and philosopher, Wolfgang Sutzl interview feminist historian and cultural critic Lata Mani about the impact of neoliberalism…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2015
Brushstrokes: Women In India’s Rape Capital
[slideshow_deploy id=’7290′] The city that has come to be touted as the “rape capital” proves to be the ideal ground…
By Curated Content
November 1, 2015
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream
One gets introduced to feminism through various modes: through books, through university courses, through parents and sometimes one does not…
By Jasmine George
November 1, 2015
The Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda and Sexuality
“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.” ― Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work Development…
By TARSHI
September 15, 2015
Issue In Focus: The Post-2015 Development Agenda: What’s in it for us?
The Post-2015 Development Agenda has been on everyone’s mind in the last eight months in some form or the other….
By Sivananthi Thanenthiran
September 1, 2015
Voices: Nepal, are you still my home?
Nepal has been occupying the news headlines for the last few months, either due to the devastating earthquake that killed…
By Shubha Kayastha
September 1, 2015
Nothing for us without us: Young People and Development
There are many mechanism, agendas and processes such as the post-2015 mechanism in development to ensure gender equality and ‘to…
By Sarah Soysa
September 1, 2015
Identifying As Queer: What Could Have Saved Me From Bullying And Abuse 10 Years Ago
By Dhrubo Jyoti This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. I remember I was…
By Curated Content
The Editorial: Technology and Sexuality
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the…
By TARSHI
July 15, 2015
Mamahood is not one size fits all
[slideshow_deploy id=’5968′] Mamahood is not one size fits all. All mamas deserve to be seen and honored in cards that…
By Curated Content
May 15, 2015
Forced into illness!
For long, a major section of our population considered people belonging to sexual ‘minorities’ as being mentally ill. They believed…
By Almas Shamim
April 1, 2015