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On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women
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On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women

Pandemics have a profound psychological impact. They are known to disrupt one’s sense of safety, security, certainty, control, concordance, and…
By Ansha Patel
July 5, 2021
On Confinements & Coexistence: Perspectives on the Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Women
Nazrein Milana, Nazrein Churana OR Your Selfie’s Eye: An Anecdotal Reflection
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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
November 17, 2015
Nazrein Milana, Nazrein Churana OR Your Selfie’s Eye: An Anecdotal Reflection
Mumbai Artist Draws Dating Life in the Digital Age
Its cartoon of a guy wearing onky an underwear and a red cape (like superman) and a girl is holding his hand wearing a t-shirt with S written on it, she's also wearing a cape. Both of them are wearing sunglasses.The background of the image features buildings and cars.
Mumbai Artist Draws Dating Life in the Digital Age

All this online dating activity must surely produce amusing stories. It was with this thought that Mumbai-based writer and illustrator Indu Kumar set about her art project #100IndianTinderTales.
By Curated Content
June 1, 2017
Mumbai Artist Draws Dating Life in the Digital Age
LOVE SEX + ROBOTS
An artist’s illustration of artificial intelligence (AI). This image depicts a look inside how AI microchips are designed with inputs and outputs.
LOVE SEX + ROBOTS

Even with all the risks that AI poses, it seems a safer bet than humans trying to exploit dating apps to make quick money.
By Siddharth Narrain
December 18, 2023
LOVE SEX + ROBOTS
Loitering towards desire
Lines of code on a computer screen
Loitering towards desire

We had gathered to [discuss] digital self-determination for people with disabilities… focusing on its core component: the self. How can I be myself in digital spaces? What gives me more of a sense of self in these spaces? How can design, technology and policy contribute to helping me determine myself in digital spaces?
By Bishakha Datta
February 16, 2023
Loitering towards desire
Journey from Stigma to Pleasure
Journey from Stigma to Pleasure

For a long time, female bodies were considered similar to male bodies, just shorter, and most research and medical trials focused primarily on the male body with the assumption that the same would work on the female body.
By Pooja Singh and Ramneek Banga
August 14, 2020
Journey from Stigma to Pleasure
Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World
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Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World

Bishakha Datta is an Indian filmmaker, activist and a former journalist. She runs Point of View, a Mumbai based non-profit,…
By Shikha Aleya
July 1, 2015
Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World
If the Internet Didn’t Exist
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If the Internet Didn’t Exist

  If the Internet didn’t exist, I believe I would be a highly insecure person. Don’t read that the wrong…
By Ragamalika Karthikeyan
July 1, 2015
If the Internet Didn’t Exist
I May Have Called You Baby But It Doesn’t Mean I Want One!
I May Have Called You Baby But It Doesn’t Mean I Want One!

Some nights I worry that if birth control for men is indeed released, clinical trials of which were suspended in 2016 as its side effects, incidentally the same as what women have been dealing with for ages, were just not worth it, it would be named Fuckboi.
By Anjali
August 14, 2020
I May Have Called You Baby But It Doesn’t Mean I Want One!
I DELETE MYSELF: ANONYMITY AND SEXUALITY ONLINE
On a black background, in capital letters, the words “I DELETE MYSELF”. The background has lines from the poem Delete by The Weird Queer Kid.
I DELETE MYSELF: ANONYMITY AND SEXUALITY ONLINE

Cyberspace has given the queer woman a chance to problematize the existing gender and sexual identities which, like any identity, is not static. It allows her to create and occupy spaces which will give her freedom and power in a way that the misogynistic physical world cannot provide.
By Curated Content
August 14, 2020
I DELETE MYSELF: ANONYMITY AND SEXUALITY ONLINE
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times
A section of the poster for the Netflix Original Documentary series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On. Against a black background, there is an illustration of the waist of a human body, seemingly female, in solid pale pink. On the body, text in capitalised letters and black font reads, “ A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES”. In the next line, the text says, “HOT GIRLS WANTED: TURNED ON”. Below the title of the series is the logo for the Sundance Film Festival and the text reads, “OFFICIAL SELECTION SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2017”.
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times

The film Hot Girls Wanted followed the journey of five young women aged 18-25 years as they joined the pornography industry and also looked more broadly at at women in this age group and their motivation to join.
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
January 3, 2022
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times

Because the Internet is an integral part of our daily lives, it is important that young people are given the right information so that they can explore the world around them, access information without violating legislations, know their rights in the virtual and physical world and have enjoyable and consensual relationships with whoever they choose.
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
August 3, 2020
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times
Hello?! Every Body in the R(/Z)oom?
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Hello?! Every Body in the R(/Z)oom?

Now, what you need is a good enough smartphone and sufficient data – these are the real “superstar” in the love affair between Big Tech and CSE.
By Gunjan Sharma
December 18, 2023
Hello?! Every Body in the R(/Z)oom?
Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India
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Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India

By Kirk L. Kroeker, Communications of ACM on 20/1/2011 Gayatri Buragohain, India’s ACM-W Ambassador and a member of the ACM…
By Curated Content
July 15, 2015
Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India
From the periphery to the core: How can we hear more women’s voices from rural India?
Several young Indian rural women sitting in a row on a carpet. Some have raised their hands, as if in answer to a question. They are wearing bright-coloured sarees, and bangles. Some are wearing bindis too.
From the periphery to the core: How can we hear more women’s voices from rural India?

Neha is a proud, beaming 16-year-old. Standing on the lawns outside Delhi’s India Gate, she speaks to the camera about…
By Gram Vaani
August 16, 2017
From the periphery to the core: How can we hear more women’s voices from rural India?
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