Tania, Nancy and Sherlyn have started a new blog, which they describe as “a blog about stuff girls do, stuff girls do but never come out”. Their intro holds a lot of promise:
What to expect?
1. Some of the dirtiest secret of women!
2. A candid description of female thinking.
3. We will talk about our attitude [...]
Archive for the 'Feminism' Category
Stuff girls do
Published by May 6th, 2008 in Blogging, Feminism, Recommended Links and Women. 0 CommentsFemale sexuality through a woman’s eyes
Published by May 4th, 2008 in Feminism, Literature, Patriarchy, Society, Women and sexuality. 2 Comments‘Is it risky for a woman writer to deal with female sexuality in India’? Sarojini Sahoo, feminist writer in Oriya, tries to answer that question:
”Yes, it is risky for a woman writer to deal with these themes in an Eastern country, and for that I face much criticism? But still I believe someone has to [...]
Fellow Blogbhartian Shruthi on why she decided to become a Stay-At-Home-Mother (SAHM) and quit her work, at least temporarily:
People ask me all the time why I chose to be with home with my baby after being so vociferous about women standing up for their rights. Please understand - working out of home does not imply [...]
What destiny a daughter fulfilled
Published by April 28th, 2008 in Development, Feminism, Fiction, Prejudice, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsDr. Motion pens a beautiful story that ends thus:
You are lucky that times have changed, your mother was not fortunate enough to follow her heart.
Don’t worry, I haven’t really given the ending away. Please read it.
MAC Attack
Published by April 16th, 2008 in Appeal, Community, Feminism, Personal, Prejudice, Society, Women, sexual harrassment and sexuality. 0 CommentsEllie posted about her encounter with one creep on her blog:
Only last week, the Sunday evening was beautiful and at around 6:30 in the evening, in broad daylight, I decided to walk down to Dodo’s place, less than a km away from my flat. I put my really wasted jeans and a very un-flattering kurta [...]
“(Yo)nifying with the self”
Published by March 28th, 2008 in Culture, Feminism, Personal, Society, South Asia, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsAfter much debate with her inner voices, Sunshine finally submits her scripts for “Yoni ki baat” a play inspired by Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues”. Some of her scripts were accepted and she’s now rehearsing for the play.
More than reaching out to the South Asian community, I have reached out to myself, in some of the [...]
The Shaming of Scarlett Keeling
Published by March 26th, 2008 in Feminism, Government, Human Rights, Justice, Media, Patriarchy, Women, public space and sexuality. 17 CommentsIf the killing was brutal, the reactions that followed haven’t been kind either- Sharanya condemns those who are condemning the victim:
In other words, the condemning of the murdered girl, her family, her friends, their lifestyles and their choices is a typical misogynist response – the wicked woman gets her dues. And this time, there are [...]
‘Saala ek machhar aadmi ko hijra bana deta hai’
Published by March 23rd, 2008 in Art, Books, Democracy, Feminism, Government, Human Rights, Literature, Patriarchy, Personal, Politics, Religion, Secularism, South Asia and public space. 2 CommentsThat line from a Nana Patekar film, says, Aman Kumar, captures his ‘rage and frustration’ over the Taslima Nasreen episode:
So has mine! Sadly, I no longer consider India a secular country after watching and analyzing the political developments in last 15-20 years. Right from Shah Bano case to Babri demolition, and from Gujrat massacre to [...]
Bhumika
Published by March 22nd, 2008 in Activism, Caste, Feminism, Human Rights, Language, Media, Patriarchy, Prejudice, Society and Women. 0 CommentsIn 1993 in Hyderabad a group of women from different feminist organisations decided to venture into the challenging terrain of publishing a feminist magazine in Telugu and the first issue of Bhumika came out in the month of Jan1993.
Bhumika Women Collective emerged in the context of the women’s movement as a felt need to make [...]
Man’s pleasure over woman’s need
Published by March 21st, 2008 in Feminism, Patriarchy, Theory, Women and sexuality. 1 CommentAvishek has a theory- he suggests that women ‘themselves have contributed to their sufferings because of their non-confrontational attitude‘:
The movie also briefly mentioned an egregious incident from India. It referred to an incident where five government-run mental institutions sought hysterectomy for 330 mentally retarded girls and women (In 1994, hysterectomies were performed on 17 girls [...]
Unchaahi
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Feminism, India, Media, Prejudice, South Asia and Women. 0 CommentsUnchaahi is a new group blog that aims to be a ‘voice against Female Genocide (a result of sex-selective abortions, and murders of female infants also known as female infanticide) focused specifically in the Indian Subcontinent.’ An excerpt from a recent post (on Ekta Kapoor soaps) by Roop Rai, one of the contributors:
I wondered then, [...]
Gender and other identities
Published by March 17th, 2008 in Caste, Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsAt Ultra Violet, Usha BN eplains why ‘gender does not function in isolation’:
In the 70s and 80s, the women’s movement in India focused on mobilising women across caste, class and ethnic background against violence and discrimination. Women were seen as a single political category. So there was a universalising approach which held that all women [...]
What Bangles Mean
Published by March 16th, 2008 in Culture, Feminism, Humour, Media, Patriarchy, Politics, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsA women’s day news report about Renuka Chowdhury’s “empowerment bangles” has Rimi B Chatterjee musing on bangles and their cultural significance.
If women are socialised to see certain kinds of jewelry in certain ways, so are men. Indian dance and drama have turned the business of a woman putting on her jewelry into an art form: shringar. Men [...]
Celebrating Women’s Day
Published by March 8th, 2008 in Community, Culture, Development, Feminism, India and Women. 0 CommentsA brief round-up of blogger posts on Women’s Day, which is being celebrated today.
Chandni introspects on feminism, following the recent controversy in our blogosphere over the role of women, and questions female chauvinism.
Coming to the fundas of women’s emancipation, feminism and equality…how come this issue reeks of some sort of female chauvinism?How come women are [...]
More on the Gulabi gang
Published by February 23rd, 2008 in Activism, Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Feminism, Government, Justice and Patriarchy. 2 CommentsBecky B devotes some (much needed?) attention to the gang:
What is so amazing to me is the anomaly that the leader figure represents. Not only that one woman could be so unabiding to the expected norm, but also that she can mobilise hundreds of women to fight for her causes. As I said in my [...]
Tell her you care.
Published by February 23rd, 2008 in Activism, Feminism, India, Patriarchy, Personal, Society, White Ribbon Campaign, Women and sexual harrassment. 0 Comments“We, the society, have always been harsh and cruel to women who dare to complain about the violence faced by them and worse if they dare complain about sexual harassment. This is the main reason why most victims don’t speak up in the first place. If a victim musters the courage to speak up, then [...]
Blank Noise
Published by February 18th, 2008 in Activism, Cinema, Community, Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, India, Justice, Patriarchy, Prejudice, Society, Spotlight Series, Women, public space and sexuality. 8 Comments[ This is Essay # !6 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Blank Noise
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Jasmeen Patheja
How have you felt every time you ignored a stranger’s eyes stripping you naked?
How often have you been a mute witness or spectator to street sexual violence?
How often have you whistled, passed remarks, leched, intimidated a female stranger, just [...]
‘So take that, beauty industry’
Published by February 17th, 2008 in Business, Feminism and Personal. 0 CommentsAishwarya wants grey hair, so that she can dye it a bright purple (’so take that, beauty industry’):
According to my blog stats, someone, somewhere has made their way here by searching for “Aishwarya has grey hair?”. I was startled when I found this out this morning because Aishwarya does indeed have grey hair. At least, [...]
The Gulabi Gang
Published by February 16th, 2008 in Activism, Feminism, Government, Justice, Patriarchy, Women and public space. 0 CommentsI keep reading about this gang on a lot of blogs, but never on an Indian blog. Why do so many outsiders find the Gulabi gang so fascinating? This post by SocProf might provide some answers:
This gang resembles the groups of Sicilian women trying to fight back against the Mafia because no one else will. [...]
Kamalamba
Published by February 13th, 2008 in Art, Caste, Culture, Feminism, Music, Patriarchy, Society and Women. 0 CommentsVidya tells a story and has a few thoughts on caste and gender in the classical arts.
One day her father noticed her write namO namO rAghavAya anisham on the walls of her house and singing a lovely sindhubhairavi. He was happy and sad at the same time. He called his wife and said,”Look It is [...]
Gargi H would like to know whatever happened to democracy:
is it banned or something?
i dint hear anyone using that word lately.
or does it really exist,
coz i just have a faded memory
of reading that
in my long lost history textbooks.
Gargi seems to post poetry mostly- among the poems that caught my attention, here are a few lines [...]
Demand for the establishment of Sexual Harassment committees
Published by February 9th, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Appeal, Caste, Feminism, Human Rights, Justice, Prejudice, South Asia, White Ribbon Campaign, Women and sexuality. 0 CommentsThe blogosphere has been largely silent on the Patan Gang-rape incident except for Atrocity News which covers incidents on Caste atrocities.
From news reports,
“The victim said she was gang-raped at least 14 times during the last six months in the college laboratory and computer room, where she was summoned under a threat that her career would [...]
Raaji’s poetic take on the horrifying New Year’s eve incident.
Is there a need for a new feminism?
Published by January 8th, 2008 in Feminism, India and Women. 0 CommentsSuchi thinks so.
The goal of feminism should be to create a world where it no longer needs to exist. But so long as it remains disengaged from people’s lives, it will remain a movement with limited subscribers. Whether in the West or in India, we need a new kind of feminism, one that creates change [...]
On the Mumbai molestation incident
Published by January 3rd, 2008 in Feminism, Human Rights, India, Justice, Media, Society, Women and sexuality. 10 CommentsBlogger reactions on the molestation of two women by a crowd outside the JW Marriott Hotel in Juhu, Mumbai after a New Years party at the hotel.
Gauri sees a familiar pattern
Women’s associations will cry hoarse.
Women will have to think twice before going on a night out.
The papers and the news channels will hash the issue [...]
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