SISA spaces
A ‘girly’ feminist
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 World Within A World
The only substitute for “friend” is “friend” itself. Irreplaceable, singular.
By Greeshma
October 15, 2025
A GARDEN OF ONE’S OWN
Therapy gives us tools and time, but the actual work of dismantling the forest is ours as we are the only persons with access to that forest. So queer affirmative therapy validates our beliefs and helps us identify the poison, cut it down, dissect it, unroot it.
By Poorva Parashar
January 4, 2021
A Garden of One’s Own
Therapy is a space to heal and grow. It helped me to accept my identity as an anxious, cisgender, South Asian, bisexual woman. Moreover, I have come up with the perfect response next time someone asks me, “But why do you think you are bisexual?”
By Poorva Parashar
August 3, 2020
#MardonWaliBaat – The Journey between ‘Listening’ and ‘Being Heard’
In the fast-paced digital world of clickbaits and instant gratification, where you can be ‘cancelled’ or ‘trending’ within the same minute, the very act of men talking to other men about alternative masculinities, has the ability to disrupt hierarchies of power, to disrupt the algorithm, to disrupt patriarchy.
By Mariyam Sara and Nida Ansari
… that feels so personal to me as a teenage girl, because it is indeed, “so confusing sometimes to be a girl.”