gender
Young Women Empowerment
On 2nd August 2019, Karishma Jangid hosted a Tweetchat curated by Abdul Mufeez Shaheed @abdulmshaheed about “Young women empowerment”. The chat began by discussing the different barriers that limit young women from achieving their potential, be it at home, in schools, or even in [...]Read more
Do we learn gender equality in Schools?
Anna Anandita is a 23 year old hailing from the temple city Bhubaneswar, Odisha. She is currently pursuing M.Tech in Chemical Engineering in National Institute of Technology, Srinagar. Apart from academics, she enjoys writing, painting, dancing and occasional singing. She is [...]Read more
Who manages your garbage?
On 28th June 2019, Aprita Bhagat @latentappy conducted a Tweetchat on “Who manages your Garbage?” The chat began by asking the question of who was responsible for managing solid waste. The audience answered that while the municipal authorities are responsible, even individuals [...]Read more
Gender and the Oceans
On 14th June we had Raakhee Suryaprakash @10sunshinegal conduct a tweetchat on Gender and the Oceans As per the latest FAO report, it was noticed that even though women form 50% of the workforce in fisheries the wage gap is high. The chat began by asking the audience how this gap [...]Read more
Embracing Pride: Building More inclusive and safe communities for everyone
On 3rd May 2019, Radhika Shankar @rads_shanks conducted a Tweetchat on “Embracing Pride – Building More inclusive and safe communities for everyone” The discussion began by asking the audience questions or statements used in day-to-day conversations that alienate the LGBTQ [...]Read more
Smart Teachers, Safer Schools
Safecity conducted an awareness workshop on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) on 20th April in Kamla Nehru School in which 25 teachers participated. What is the difference between sex and gender? What is Child Sexual Abuse? These were the important questions that the teachers of Indipuram [...]Read more
The 10 Year Challenge that we haven’t cared about
Debarati Bhowmick is currently pursuing her post- graduation from Mumbai University. Dancing and writing are her passion. She writes short poems in my her time and she loves to interact with people from diverse backgrounds. The 10 Year Challenge As we know, social media was [...]Read more
Emerging Leader: Kajal Antil
Safecity is celebrating the journey of people who have emerged as leaders as our campaigns progressed in their communities through our blog series “Safecity Emerging Leaders”. Read the inspiring stories of these individuals who are passionate about making their neighbourhoods [...]Read more
Gender and Fiction
On 8th March Ayush Mukherjee @its_ayush_here conducted a tweetchat on Gender and Fiction. The chat began by raising the question whether gender representation is a concern in fiction when fiction isn’t even true. The audience expressed their views about how fiction influences a [...]Read more
Illustrated Stories
Illustrated Stories was a workshop on using comic illustrations to tell stories and was a part of the One Billion Rising movement. This workshop was help on 16th Feb 2019 at ISDI Mumbai. The theme of the workshop was talking about Gender issues through art.The participants [...]Read more