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#DelhiPride: A Dame To Kill For

By THE LADIES COMPARTMENT November 26, 2017June 6, 2020 In Features, Intheirwords, Pride 0 Anjul Dandekar, Bicurious 0

Asked to write this piece about my experience with dating as a lesbian in India, my first reaction was ‘how is any different from heterosexual dating?’ After all,

#DelhiPride: The Silent B In LGBT

By Avantika Mehta November 25, 2017June 6, 2020 In Features, Intheirwords, Pride 0 Anjul Dandekar, avantika mehta 1

A month ago, Delhi organised an LGBTQIA Pride parade. A friend of mine was involved. On Twitter, he ranted about how journalists were calling him to ask for numbers of people who are gay or lesbian or transgender.

#DelhiPride: A Letter To My Ex: You Raped Me, I Forgive You

By Steph Cicco November 24, 2017June 6, 2020 In Features, Intheirwords, Pride 0 Anjul Dandekar, Consent 0

You didn’t expect this, did you? Well, neither did I till about ten months ago. I had so wonderfully repressed the cold hard facts of that evening;

In A World Filled With Anxious People, Fredrick Backman Calls For Compassion

By Srividhya Venkatesan January 15, 2021 In Culture 0 Book, book review 0

Fredrick Backman’s latest novel Anxious People’s story unfolds within an apartment, where our failed thief takes hostage a real-estate agent and his clients. Lamenting his failure, the robber explains to his hostages, “I’m having quite a complicated day here!” And, so are they.

The Emancipation Of A Heavy and Weighted Heart In A Pandemic

By Abanti Chattopadhyay January 9, 2021 In Features, Intheirwords 1 BODY POSITIVITY, INTHEIRWORDS 3

2020 was the year I woke up to the possibility of being both fat and bald. I had the gumption to be only one of those. My PCOS was left unattended for far too long, and she was finally making me choose.
This essay isn’t a celebration of the 17 kgs I managed to plead out of my body. It isn’t a watered-down version of Chicken Soup for the Fat and Hurting Soul or another fat person inspiring you, notwithstanding their weight. I am not walking on-set, a months-old photo of me juxtaposed unto the screen, emphatically telling you that if I can, you can.

Alankrita Shrivastav Reimagines Feminist Films In Dolly, Kitty, Aur Chamakte Sitare:

By Oishorjyo December 21, 2020 In Culture, Film, Film Review 0 Bollywood, FEMINISM 0

Dolly Kitty Aur Chamakte Taare received tepid reviews in the mainstream media. However, for a wayward viewer like me, the film was reminiscent of the eloquent lives of women I know. People whose stories are not speckled with grandeur, but are of inadvertence. Women who are making space for themselves inch by inch. Like my mother, my aunt, a schoolfriend from my hometown. Lives into which I only have a voyeuristic lens. Stories not of grand struggles, or taking feminist stands, but of omniscient living, any act of desire is transgression.

BEING ASEXUAL IN A SEXUALISED WORLD

By Christie Maria James October 29, 2020October 31, 2020 In Features, Intheirwords, Pride 2 ACE AWARENESS, Asexual 0

That I was asexual was not an a-ha! moment for me. If I were asked – and I have been –

Why We Need a Feminist Retelling of Hindu Mythology

By Aisiri Amin August 31, 2020 In Books, Culture, Features, Intheirwords 2 Aisiri Amin, FEMINISM 2

Hindu mythology is bereft of a feminist lens. Fables like Ramayana and Mahabharata are passed down for centuries as the literal Words of Gods, teaching men how to live a good life. But, what about women?