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Gender Politics in Gaming: The Othering of Women in a Male-Dominated Space
By Imaan Haque In recent years, the gaming industry has seen an exponential boom. Video games are becoming exceedingly popular, even more so with the release of free to play massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and battle royale games for easily [...]Read more
Afghan women and the advent of Taliban
By Akanksha Pandey TW// Mention of death “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roof, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.” Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini’s poignant ode to the conflict-ravaged nation, translated from Saib-e-Tabrizi’s [...]Read more
A Feminist Perspective on the Olympics
By Disha Sarna Olympics are important in feminist discourse because they challenge the ideas of traditional femininity, showcase women’s strength and highlight key ideas in feminism like intersectionality and inclusion. Surprisingly, when the Olympics started in 1894, only [...]Read more
The Portrayal of Women, Gender and Sexuality in Disney Movies
By Disha Sarna Disney is a staple in the media that children have devoured for a very long time. Children with access to television, phone or a storybook are very well-versed with the stories of Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Snow White (1937). The fact [...]Read more
Women as Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners
By Disha Sarna Over the past few decades, the rise of women entrepreneurs has been exponential, with women owning 37% of the enterprises globally, according to Harvard Business Review. It also reports that more than 200 million women have been actively participating in [...]Read more
Place and Gender: Towards Feminist and Inclusive Cities
By Nivea Jain While the social dimensions of gender inequality are well documented and analyzed, its spatial dimension, i.e., how gender inequality shapes our physical spaces, remains largely unexplored. The generations of patriarchal and misogynistic outlook about gender [...]Read more
The Indian Red-Letter Days
By Akanksha Pandey Menstruation, while the dictionary defines it as, “a cyclical discharging of blood secretions, and tissue debris from the uterus that recurs in non-pregnant breeding-age primate females”, its societal definition has little to do with these complex [...]Read more
Feminism, Gender and Pop Music
Perhaps the best thing that music is known for is its universality. It has been known to cross the barriers of language, space and time, which makes one wonder whether it has been able to cross the barrier of gender. This article is an attempt to answer this question by [...]Read more
The Pride Month Golden Narrative: The Madras HC Judgement By Justice Venkatesh Instills Hope Among The LGBTQIA+ Community
Sushama and Another v. Commissioner of Police and others is a case that is drawing our attention and that too for all the right reasons. A briefing of the case: The solicitors were a lesbian couple who fled from their respective homes after their parents rejected their [...]Read more
Covid-19 & the relentless societal impact of it on women
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected everyone, especially with the second wave leading to the collapse of the health system. People have lost their family members and friends to it. In such times, when it’s hard to survive, the situation is even worse for women because of their [...]Read more