Sexual Violence

Brushstrokes: Risky Date
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First dates can be a source of both excitement and anxiety – the possibility of finding a connection someone new is endlessly exhilarating, but the uncertainty around what to expect can be unnerving

By Curated Content
March 5, 2019
Brushstrokes: Risky Date
CATAMITE
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On the other hand, in Abhay’s newly discovered wonderland, everything seemed to be awfully right. Soon, he began receiving proposals for sex-dates. Initially such proposals shocked him; for it took him a few months to get used to the fact that sex with men was only a click away.

By Kaustav Bakshi
October 5, 2020
CATAMITE
Consent and violation
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I was in standard 9th. She was our new Political Science teacher. Our entire class adored her; after all, she…

By Guest Writer
February 15, 2014
Consent and violation
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
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A space can make us feel constricted or liberated, and sometimes even both at the same and at varying times. The combination of spaces that we may be occupying in the moment, as well as those we have in the past, predisposes us to act, feel and experience our sexuality in different ways.

By TARSHI
April 18, 2022
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
How #MeToo Revealed the Central Rift Within Feminism Today
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In the media and in private life, conversations about consent, hostile environments and power began, and there was a growing acknowledgment that a man’s unwanted sexual overtures were a symptom of broader social and political forces.

By Curated Content
July 16, 2018
How #MeToo Revealed the Central Rift Within Feminism Today
How Not To Talk About ‘Women’s Safety’ In Public Spaces
Image of a woman being "watched" by eyes that symbolise societal moral policing

The only thing this language achieves (and maybe it is also the goal), is to create enough panic so that women themselves police and restrict their own mobility and whereabouts, and keep themselves away from public spaces whenever possible.

By Curated Content
April 15, 2020
How Not To Talk About ‘Women’s Safety’ In Public Spaces
How We Can Make Our Cities Safer Using Crowdsourced Data
The photo shows a red hand trying to shut the mouth of a woman. There’s a caption on the photo saying sexual harassment is a crime and a yellow caption in between says, break the silence.

Sexual violence is a global pandemic affecting one in three women at least once in their lifetime. The statistics in India are equally shocking. National Crime Records Bureau statistics of 2014 indicate that a rape occurs every 20 minutes in India.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
June 1, 2017
How We Can Make Our Cities Safer Using Crowdsourced Data
Interview – Amba Salelkar
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But not every issue of discrimination and conflict can go to a court.Say for example, affording privacy to a young adult with disability to understand their body and sexual responses, or enabling them to access accessible sex toys or assistive devices related to sexual pleasure.

By Shikha Aleya
September 1, 2020
Interview – Amba Salelkar
Media and the Power of Responsible Representation
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It is the winter of 2013, and my father and I are sitting at an awkward distance from each other…

By Rohini Banerjee
June 15, 2021
Media and the Power of Responsible Representation
On Mental Health and Being a Transman
On Mental Health and Being a Transman

I did everything to change my gender expression from masculine to feminine. I started wearing feminine clothes, started growing my hair, and I even had a boyfriend. But the more I pushed myself to be feminine, the more depressed I became.

By Jamal Siddiqui
February 3, 2017
On Mental Health and Being a Transman
On Sexuality, Representation, and Being a Lonely Brown Girl
The cover image of the article with the typography, in white, 'On Sexuality, Representation, and Being a Lonely Brown Girl' and under it in smaller font: September 12, 2017 / Nisha Eswaran' The background is a fade-effect illustration of a brown woman wearing a white-lilac top with black hair open. She is standing in a field of sunflowers, yellow and brown with green leaves and brown-black mountains far back. The woman's face has been made without any features.

I long for much more than a greater representation of brown women. I long for a complete overhaul of the racial, gendered, and economic systems that structure our suffering.

But I also long for representation of all people, including brown women, who are in love, who are loveable, and who are — in the absence of love — lonely.

By Curated Content
June 15, 2021
On Sexuality, Representation, and Being a Lonely Brown Girl
Review: Unbelievable
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I believe that such mini-series as “Unbelievable” will help people have a better understanding of what women go through when they experience a horrific incident like rape or sexual assault.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
October 15, 2019
Review: Unbelievable
Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Disabilities: The Long Road Ahead
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Motherhood is hallowed concept in Indian society – folklore and stories of branding women who do not bear a child…

By Shampa Sengupta
August 1, 2014
Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Disabilities: The Long Road Ahead
Sudha ji’s Love Story
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Sudha ji’s indomitable spirit made me question if I was settling down for too little, if there was more that I should ask for, and if there is more that I deserve.

By Chandrabarna Saha
April 16, 2018
Sudha ji’s Love Story
Title: Movie Review: Seeing Allred – The fight for equality goes on
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Allred’s story is important because it shows us how an individual used her knowledge, power, and position to challenge the legal system in demanding rights and equality, especially for women and LGBTQ+ people.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
September 1, 2020
Title: Movie Review: Seeing Allred – The fight for equality goes on
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