Safecity Monthly Updates – June 2022
Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighbourhoods. We can do this by sharing our experiences or others anonymously and make these stories [...]Read more

Being an Ally to the LGBTQIA+ Community
By Anjali Kumari Since time immemorial, people have associated sex assigned at birth with gender identity. However, sex – female, male and intersex, is something that is categorised as a set of biological attributes in humans, whereas gender identity is not confined [...]Read more
Safecity Monthly Updates – May 2022
Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighbourhoods. We can do this by sharing our experiences or others anonymously and make these stories [...]Read more

Unlearning Biases: Why It’s Important To Re-evaluate Our Upbringing
By Imaan Haque Growing up in a conservative Muslim family, I was always told that queerness is something exceptionally sinful. There was no space to even talk about homosexuality, or anything even remotely related to it. Naturally, as a child, I adopted many of these [...]Read more
Safecity Monthly Updates – April 2022
Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighbourhoods. We can do this by sharing our experiences or others anonymously and make these stories [...]Read more

Should One Strive for Women’s Equality or Equity?
By Evanshi Mavani There’s a viral image circulating on social media that displays two people in two distinct circumstances. In the first, both individuals are given an equal-sized box to assist them in seeing over the wall. However, because of his superior height, only [...]Read more

Public Street Harassment: The Shadow Behind Every Woman
By Imaan Haque An inevitable facet of traversing the world as a woman is the ceaseless harassment levied on us in public. In India, a woman is sexually harassed every 12 minutes. Street harassment comes in many forms: eve-teasing (including making passes, obscene gestures, [...]Read more
Safecity Monthly Updates – March 2022
Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighbourhoods. We can do this by sharing our experiences or others anonymously and make these stories [...]Read more
Safecity Monthly Updates – February 2022
Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighbourhoods. We can do this by sharing our experiences or others anonymously and make these stories [...]Read more

Pushpa: The Limits of Indian Cinema?
By Evanshi Mavani Trigger Warning: Mention of sexual violence For years now in Indian cinema, there’s been nothing as exhilarating for the masses as seeing a hero crush his enemies, save his girl, and live happily ever after. However, it’s 2022, and surely, we can [...]Read more