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Memorialising queer desire
Each poem in Tsolakis’ collection resonates with the present while recalling the past, attempts to exhume the stories of people who bore the cost of being themselves and presents Greek myth-histories, and champions queer ethnography in a way that makes it accessible for people of other cultures to find common expressions in it, transcending all sorts of borders.
17 November 2024, 03:05 IST
Memorialising queer desire
17 November 2024, 03:05 IST
Why pay attention to widows?
Human rights are meant for all human beings and widows are as much entitled to a life of their own as widowers and all other humans, writes Mineke Schipper
09 November 2024, 22:33 IST
Why pay attention to widows?
09 November 2024, 22:33 IST
Who’s more gossipy? Women or men?
Why did women get tagged as the more gossipy sex while men pass off this universal human trait as, ahem, networking, wonders Indu Balachandran
09 November 2024, 22:29 IST
Who’s more gossipy? Women or men?
09 November 2024, 22:29 IST
Of queerness and Dhamma
Why are queer individuals often made to feel as though they are straying from the path of Dhamma simply because of their identity? Is the cis-heterosexual norm the only Dharmic norm, asks Kanav Narayan Sahgal
27 October 2024, 02:54 IST
Of queerness and Dhamma
27 October 2024, 02:54 IST
Branded for life
When I share my reasons, all the pieces fall into place like a jigsaw puzzle. I don’t offer details, just that I survived a gang rape. The questions cease.
12 October 2024, 23:58 IST
Branded for life
12 October 2024, 23:58 IST
A stony challenge
As India’s first woman scientist to Antarctica, Sudipta Sengupta writes about her rocky, yet fruitful experiences and learnings as a geologist in a male-dominated ‘rough terrain’.
28 September 2024, 22:57 IST
A stony challenge
28 September 2024, 22:57 IST
Children of a lesser God?
To accommodate for generalised discrimination, the law provides for horizontal reservations where a fixed percentage of each caste quota is further reserved for the discriminated class.
15 September 2024, 03:27 IST
Children of a lesser God?
15 September 2024, 03:27 IST
How women navigate cynicism in activism
Women activists face gender inequality and patriarchy in many forms. While male activists tend to be agenda-driven, women activists are keener on processes and in looking at pluralities. Sometimes the desire to be politically correct may overwhelmingly tilt an argument in favour of a process that may not reflect the situation on the ground, writes Aruna Roy
31 August 2024, 22:48 IST
How women navigate cynicism in activism
31 August 2024, 22:48 IST
How female mystics transcended misogyny
Through the centuries, women mystic poets — from Ambabai of Karnataka, Soyarabai and Kanhopatra of Maharashtra to Lal Ded of Kashmir — have been celebrated much for their devotional poetry.
24 August 2024, 18:30 IST
How female mystics transcended misogyny
24 August 2024, 18:30 IST
How strong is a woman ‘allowed’ to be?
The controversy surrounding boxing champions like Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who were accused of being “men” due to their strength, underscores the challenges faced by women. Are outdated and discriminatory practices further complicating the issue? Roshan Thyagarajan offers some insights
17 August 2024, 18:37 IST
How strong is a woman ‘allowed’ to be?
17 August 2024, 18:37 IST
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