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  • Female erasure on family tree
    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    How Female Erasure (Mis)Shapes Our History

    November 2, 2024January 1, 2025
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    Female erasure in history means women like my aunt —and maybe me — are left unrecorded, our stories quietly slipping out of memory. Includes audio.

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  • AI Artbreeder woman mirror reflection ageing
    Body & Sex | Home & Identity

    Don’t Tell Me I’m Hot

    October 31, 2024May 31, 2025
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    This journey isn’t about being hot; it’s about finding true comfort in my skin, rejecting the myth of pretty privilege, and feeling at home again.

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  • AI Salman Khan Shah Rukh Khan Aamir Khan collage
    Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Finding My Khandaan: My Life Through the Bollywood Khans

    October 27, 2024July 10, 2025
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    The Khandaan podcast inspires a journey through my Bollywood memories, uncovering how they shaped our cultural identities and gender politics in relationships.

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  • Choices app Slow Burn book
    Books | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    When You Have A Choice In Your Story: Choices ‘Slow Burn’

    October 25, 2024October 27, 2024
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    Slow Burn on the Choices app highlights the importance of sensitive representation in interactive stories, showing how diversity shapes narrative choice.

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  • Mining joy Ramya Mumbai metro podcast cover
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    Mining Joy On A Joyride: Mumbai Metro Aqua Line 3

    October 20, 2024February 27, 2025
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    Mumbai’s first underground metro, Line 3 or the Aqua Line opened with a route from Aarey to BKC. I took a joyride to see my city change.

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  • Mad Men Don Draper Betty Draper pregnant
    Body & Sex | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Mad Men: Don Draper & Pregnancy Scares

    September 25, 2024September 25, 2024
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    Don Draper’s personal history with sex and pregnancy scares, may reveal deeper layers to his marriage to Betty. #MadMen

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  • AI Snape Sirius bullying
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Bullying Insights In Pop Culture: Harry Potter To Mean Girls

    August 22, 2024July 15, 2025
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    Pop culture helps me frame how people behave and who I become. I found some notable insights on bullying in Harry Potter & Mean Girls.

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  • AI violence against women
    Body & Sex | City | Politics & Feminism

    How We Talk About Violence: The Bengaluru PG Murder

    July 27, 2024July 27, 2024
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    A Bengaluru murder reveals deeper issues of gender violence, victim-blaming & cultural conflicts. We need to reconsider how we think about violence.

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  • AI book shelf cathy yardley
    Books | Politics & Feminism

    Book Review: ROLE-PLAYING – Cathy Yardley: Feminism Via ChickLit

    July 24, 2024March 10, 2025
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    Explore the feminist evolution of ChickLit with Cathy Yardley’s ‘Role-Playing’. Delve into diverse characters, complex conflicts & a fresh take on romance.

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  • Indian woman tongue out AI language
    Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    Language No Bar, Rashtriya Bhasha Har Baar

    July 14, 2024
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    A woman & I separated by glass makes me think about the dance of language & identity. I trace colonialism & nationalism with my tongue. How shall I reach her?

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  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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