Although I acknowledge the privilege that I have, my identity as a Gay Individual has drastically shaped my reality. I have constantly Felt left out despite being an extrovert and growing up with a large circle of friends.
It wasn’t until puberty when I realized I was gay
A look into why we need to start seeing Rapes of women belonging to minority communities as a political crime and not just an act of Sexual Violence. Excerpt: Asifa’s rape and murder has as much to do with the dehumanisation and sexualisation of young girls’ and women’s bodies as such, which gets produced by rape culture which in turn constitutes the social context for these incidents of rape to get reproduced, as it has to do with the question of her own social location on the matrix of marginality. Neither can the particularity of her identity be erased, nor can her personhood be subsumed by her identity.
Read More Bharat Ki Beti Nahi BanengeAn ode to all the women who have had to kill parts of themselves in order to fit into the moulds of Patriarchy.
Read More She Watched In ConcealmentYesterday Was Women’s day, and we went around looking at our friends’ posts to see what they feel and let me assure you this bouquet is more beautiful than the ones your boyfriends gave and sweeter than the chocolates your brothers could have given. because each one rings true to the core!
Read More A Bouquet on Women’s DayI want a world where we don’t need a day to celebrate women or men, where every day is happy. Where my sarcasm will be useless. I want a world where I can stop calling myself a feminist. A perfect world. But it doesn’t exist.
Read More Because It is Wo-Mans Day!Nikita Azad pens a powerful poem about the most stared at organ of the human body !!
Accompanied with a whimsical illustration by Rashi Sinha (@randombug).
About Nikita: A poet, writer, and activist from Jalandhar, Punjab. She started the Happy to Bleed campaign, the one against menstrual taboos and she has been an active part of Pinjra Tod. She is also a Rhodes scholar now, which means she will be pursuing MSt. Women’s Studies at the University of Oxford from this September.
Read More Breasts and You
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