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Interview – #covid19 and conversations online: Listening in
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We are plugged in to all kinds of data from a variety of sources, through technology, and even a window view of this space is like stepping into a global COVID control data centre. We are standing up to be counted, to be seen, to do, to contribute, to advocate, to remind, to rectify and restore, to strengthen a growing network of support and response to crisis on a scale we have neither been able to process or measure.

By Shikha Aleya
May 15, 2021
Interview – #covid19 and conversations online: Listening in
Video: How Can Women & Non-Binary People Combat Online Violence?
A screenshot of Feminism in India's video How Can Women & Non-Binary People Combat Online Violence? In the middle is Japleen Pasricha, the founder of Feminism in India. She is wearing a grey-black full-sleeved shirt and her eyes are closed. She has deep brown hair reaching under her shoulders on both sides. Behind her is a wooden cupboard stacked with books, and a poster in blue with a woman holding a sign saying 'SMASH BRAHMINICAL PATRIARCHY'. On her left is an illustration that says, in pink, VOYEURISM and above it, an illustration with white circles on black to denote binoculars and a woman's silhouette at the centre. At the bottom of the screenshot are the subtitles: "(a)nd voyeurism, where someone records you in your private moments without your consent."

Japleen Pasricha, founder of Feminism in India, lays bare the violence women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and historically marginalised communities face in online spaces, ranging from identity theft, bullying, trolling, to having our private photographs and details disseminated without our consent and being blackmailed.

By Feminism in India
May 15, 2021
Video: How Can Women & Non-Binary People Combat Online Violence?
“I HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS”: INFORMED CONSENT IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
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Ethical considerations and frameworks for traditional (for the lack of a better term) have had decades of debates, discussions, and revisions to have Boards of Review with similar ethics regulations (although they are still being critiqued).

By Curated Content
October 15, 2020
“I HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS”: INFORMED CONSENT IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
The Mask of Age
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As advocates of safe, inclusive and sexuality-affirming spaces, we can explore different ways to ensure that the people we are interacting with on dating platforms are legal adults and are not merely wearing a mask of adulthood.

By Andy Stephen Silveira
August 3, 2020
The Mask of Age
Qandeel: The Story Of A Small Town Girl With Big Dreams
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Fouzia Azeem, more popularly known as Qandeel Baloch,was called Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian. Madiha Tahir, a journalist and filmmaker who is interviewed in the documentary,questions this comparison. To quote her: “She (Qandeel) is not Kim Kardashian at all. She is not famous for being rich. An upper-class woman would have her class protection and it’s unlikely that an upper-class woman would be supporting her family from these social media videos.”

By Zulfiya Hamzaki
June 1, 2019
Qandeel: The Story Of A Small Town Girl With Big Dreams
I’m a Fennel for Now
The queer muslim experience, symbolised by a picture of three pieces of fennel, kept one beside each other. they have a light green bulbous body and dark green leaves emerging from the stem.

“I’m afraid because I bring to bed more than just one soul of a scared conflicted boy. I’m bringing to bed a whole army that not only runs the streets within me but also spills out over my body and the body of the boy next to me.”

By Abdullah Erikat
September 4, 2018
I’m a Fennel for Now
Brushstrokes: #100DaysofLaundry
Illustration of a naked woman in a bathtub, her menstrual blood visible in the water she's taking a bath in

But what about the “moments we don’t Instagram”? What about the uglier parts of our physical lived realities? What about the parts of our body, our identities, our sexuality we don’t perform on social media, but are still an intrinsic part of who we are?

By Curated Content
September 4, 2018
Brushstrokes: #100DaysofLaundry
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
Ctr Alt Swipe Right: Sex, Sexuality and the Internet in India
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The promises of the Internet are, of course, highly contextual. The Internet will mean very different things to a person who has access to their own mobile phone in a city with a reliable and affordable broadband or WiFi connection, as compared to someone who does not have access to a reliable Internet connection or who is unable to go to a shop to exchange downloaded songs and clips through an SD card.

By Siddharth Narrain
June 1, 2017
Ctr Alt Swipe Right: Sex, Sexuality and the Internet in India
Sex, Honour, Shame and Blackmail in an Online World
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Thousands of young women in conservative societies across North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia are being shamed or blackmailed with private and sometimes sexually explicit images. A look at how smartphones and social media are colliding head-on with traditional notions of honour and shame.

By Curated Content
January 16, 2017
Sex, Honour, Shame and Blackmail in an Online World
Review: What Does Clothing Have to do with Sexuality in the Media?
Still from a banned advertisement 'Yeh to bada toing hai' by Amul Macho innerwear. A young bride is shown washing her husband's underwear

There’s always another way of presenting a look, attire, accessories and bodies; of presenting the way we feel about ourselves and our sexuality, of presenting an acceptance of diversity.

By Shikha Aleya
August 2, 2016
Review: What Does Clothing Have to do with Sexuality in the Media?
Being Fake, Being Online: Young Women’s Self-Expressions through Multiple Profiles on Social Media
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July 1, 2015
Being Fake, Being Online: Young Women’s Self-Expressions through Multiple Profiles on Social Media
How the popular media fails representation of women
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Being a journalism student once, and having a network of seniors and batch mates who came from a journalism background,…

By Anshul Tewari
October 15, 2014
How the popular media fails representation of women
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media
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Five snippets from three months. In August, Indian actress Poonam Pandey dons a bikini for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge…

By Bishakha Datta
October 1, 2014
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media
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Photo of Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Manal Al Shairf. She has black hair and is wearing a black headscarf, and is standing in front of a board that says 'women2drive'.

By: Women’s Rights Campaigning Info-Activism Toolkit People are more likely to trust – and act on – messages from people they…

By Curated Content
July 15, 2014
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