Misogyny

A World Away: HIV in Central Asia
Street with tin roof houses in a hilly area. Snow-capped mountains can be seen behind.

In the spring of 2005, working with a medical NGO, I and five colleagues (two critical care flight paramedics, a…

By Curated Content
December 15, 2015
A World Away: HIV in Central Asia
A ‘girly’ feminist
Two dandelion flowers in a glass vase on a pink background.

Desiring motherhood meant veering into a more ‘girly’ territory, a notion that I had simultaneously been fighting and trying to embrace since childhood. I had understood that to be a feminist I had to be independent, be wary of men, dislike families and relationships.

By Anubha Sarkar
December 1, 2020
A ‘girly’ feminist
And quietly flow thoughts on being and not being…
An illustration of the interssecting outlines and silhouettes of male and female figures in pastel colors.

In the uncertainty and volatility of the pandemic, Pramada Menon examines what has changed for herself, for the world, and for the various attributes of the workplace – mentorship, conversations, power, and purpose, among others.

By Pramada Menon
December 15, 2021
And quietly flow thoughts on being and not being…
Biscuit tin
On a pink background, a blue gift-wrapped box with a bow

I keep on hold the colours and prints to wrap you in gentle delicate flowers or little cartoon lions and boys with fists that say Bam and Super / until I know what lies between your legs the cigar or the smile of consolation if you’re the first

By Shikha Aleya
December 1, 2020
Biscuit tin
Brushstrokes: 5 Fantastic Ways to Engage in Feminist Hookup Culture
Film poster of ‘Someone Great’

While navigating hook-up culture, we may exercise our agency to express our sexuality but at the same time, may face risks to our safety and bodily integrity as well as obstacles engendered by misogyny, rape culture, heteronormativity, and double standards.

By Curated Content
October 5, 2020
Brushstrokes: 5 Fantastic Ways to Engage in Feminist Hookup Culture
Brushstrokes:The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction
picture of a pulp fiction novel cover

Considering how sexuality was a running (and selling) theme in pulp fiction stories, and female sexuality was employed as a means to titillate and attract readers, the covers often reflected this.

By Curated Content
March 2, 2020
Brushstrokes:The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction
Churails: The Revolution Within Us All
A poster of the mini-series Churails. Two women can be seen sitting in a line. The first woman has a gun in her hands and the woman above her has a flask and hockey stick.

Their inimitable personalities showcase their varied conceptions of insaaf (justice), enriching and intensifying the plot and, at the same time, reaffirming their solidarity and strengthening their unity.

By Nupur Paliwal and Saloni Mishra
December 1, 2020
Churails: The Revolution Within Us All
Circle of Trust
Poster of the Netflix series ‘The Bold Type’ Three girls can be seen standing confidently. On top of the poster, the tile ‘Bold Type is written in purple colour

None of these characters is perfect but in their imperfections we can learn more about body positivity, gender sensitivity, privilege, consent, unconscious and implicit bias, sexuality, masculinity, their intersections with class, religion, race, age, and more.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
April 5, 2021
Circle of Trust
Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality
A close-up photograph of a dandelion with dew. The dewdrops are differently coloured in the light.

Are certain forms of femininities denigrated more than others? Not just by misogynists but also by feminists? Is there a particular way of manifesting an ‘appropriate’ femininity, one that is just right, and is not ‘too girly’ or ‘too tomboyish’?

By TARSHI
December 15, 2020
Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality
Editorial: Popular Culture and Sexuality
picture of a high-heel shoe, it is orange in colour with patterns on it

And so, in the mid-month issue we have Shweta Krishnan examining the place of political incorrectness in stand-up comedy, Rohini Banerjee talking about how fanfiction allowed her to delve into alternative worlds, and…

By TARSHI
December 15, 2018
Editorial: Popular Culture and Sexuality
For I Am A Woman
silhouette of a woman

For I was a woman / Taught to chain herself gracefully / In an invisible cage.

By Khushi Pahuja
February 3, 2020
For I Am A Woman
India’s Daughter: When Men Come Together, But Women Stand Divided
Poster of a documentary. On a black background is written, "India's Daughter - The Story of Jyoti Singh", with "Daughter" in red and everything else in white. The tittle of two i's in IndIa are flames, making the I's look like candles.

Two weeks before India’s Daughter made it to the headlines, I came across this new pledge for Delhi school kids,…

By Shweta Krishnan
March 16, 2015
India’s Daughter: When Men Come Together, But Women Stand Divided
Invisible Women
A poster of the film 'North Country'. On the poster: in the middle, Charlize Theron's face and shoulders. She is wearing a yellow bandana and a grey-beige t-shirt. She is looking at the camera, wide-eyed. Behind her is a crowd of men, a bit transparent. The lettering under her is in white, saying NORTH COUNTRY. Above her, the lettering says, 'ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO MAKE A LIVING, INSTEAD SHE MADE HISTORY' and underneath the title of the film are details about its cast and production.

I recently watched North Country on Netflix, a movie based on a true story of a woman’s fight for equality at the workplace. It is based on the case, Jenson vs Eveleth Mines, in the United States in which Lois Jenson, fought for the right to work as a miner, and the right to work free of sexual harassment. She won the landmark 1984 lawsuit, which was the first class-action lawsuit on sexual harassment at the workplace in the United States and resulted in companies/organisations having to introduce sexual harassment policies at the workplace.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
May 15, 2021
Invisible Women
Issue in Focus: The Script of Love
the script of love: still of a crying 'tulsi' from 'kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi'

The discursive power vested in audio-visual media can prove to be emancipatory if it seeks to re-write the scripts of love, to expand it to include various subjectivities, disturb the patriarchal gendered dynamics that it is based on by introducing a story that allows the audience to imagine it in various different ways.

By Anannya Chatterjee
December 3, 2018
Issue in Focus: The Script of Love
Jasmine Stains
A pictures of the reddish-green leaves and branches of a plant, against a bright green background

Desire is a man’s turf, right up there with moustaches and Adam’s apples / I’m the apple, I am the snake, I am Eve / I am the vibrator nestled between flimsy, cheap lace underwear / I am the shame, of saying I came

By Malini Gopalakrishnan
January 2, 2019
Jasmine Stains
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