With the decriminalization of homosexuality in 2018, it was taken for granted that India’s largely anti-LGBT climate would gradually change itself. Although …
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Ever wondered what would the handing of a pandemic crisis by a masculinist nation that failed to prioritize spending on health look …
“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” – Marsha P. Johnson Pride Month has been celebrated across …
The taboo surrounding menstrual hygiene hangs like a dark cloud above India’s head. Sedimentation of generations’ worth of myth, superstition and a …
The taboo surrounding menstrual hygiene hangs like a dark cloud above India’s head. Sedimentation of generations’ worth of myth, superstition and a …
Even today, conversion therapy is largely used on queer people to, as the urban lingo goes, ‘pray the gay away.’ Quite simply …
For the past few months now, Parvathi’s life has been a flurry of arbitrary violence. (Al Jazeera)The nationwide lockdown across India has …
WOMEN BREADWINNERS STILL DO MOST OF THE HOME CHORES Daisy, a corporate professional, just came home after a long hectic day at …
The #EndSARS movement started on the Nigerian Twitter-sphere in 2017 by passionate comrades. The youths were tired of being profiled and treated …
The group had initially emerged as a collective protest against the French law supporting same-sex marriage in the year 2012. In the …
For several months now, a strange stillness seems to have gripped the red-light areas in India. While the maxi-clad women still hang …
Nawal is a brilliant 12-year-old girl, who has to stop schooling in order to get married to the 65-year-old sheik of her …