» Editors Note:#MoodOfTheMonthfor January 2024 isLove In Digital Era. We invite submissions on this theme throughout the month. If you would like to contribute, kindly refer to oursubmission guidelinesand email your articles toshahinda@feminisminindia.com Social media has always actively engag...
It must be noted that the state orchestrated and unleashed the weapon of gendered violence upon these mothers and grandmothers by abducting their pregnant daughters-in-law, putting them either in jails or unknown places. It is also reported that the pregnant...
I found X Men First Class a compelling film with several important reflective questions about identity, power, and humanity. In embracing the complexities of the main male characters it gave us a chance to look at both the Self and the Shadow of each man and ...
Ms. Bonner received much more street harassment when she moved from Houston to New York City, and used those catcalls she heard in real life to populate the set of harassing comments that simulated harassers say to the player. She appreciates how virtual reality lets her offer, say, a 6-f...
In April, Leslee Udwin visited NYU for a special screening of her film India’s Daughter. There are two relevant memorable moments from that night. The first was when Leslee Udwin said she set out to answer ‘why men rape’. The second was when I asked if she had found her answer...
Violence is global. It pervades all cultures and communities. Yesterday, in a brilliant conversation, Kavita Krishnan, Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association and one of the main organizers of protests against sexual violence in India and Elora Chowdhary, associate professor of ...
The assumption underlying this tweet is that the reason a woman is raped every twenty minutes in India is because they must have some manner of inferior “rape culture” that needs to be “fixed” and that is in no way racist/ethnophobic either BTW. A whole lot of people believe “rape...
today these women are calling on all Indians to nurture ‘solidarity’, generate ‘collective power’, and ‘take to the streets’. Indeed, ‘individually we cannot transform the future, but together we can’. While India promises unity in diversity, the stories of these Muslim women prove tha...
How do those spaces relate to one another when Twitter, Reddit, and the chans flatten the subcultural walls between them?” “Hot Allostatic Load”, by porpentine, in The New Inquiry: “This is about disposability from a trans feminine perspective, through the lens of an artistic career. It...
In April, Leslee Udwin visited NYU for a special screening of her film India’s Daughter. There are two relevant memorable moments from that night. The first was when Leslee Udwin said she set out to answer ‘why men rape’. The second was when I asked if she had found her answer...