My Sense Of Safety Trumps Your Right To My Acceptance
An Indian student was denied an internship because of India’s complicity in rape culture. Is it about race or safety?
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Why I’m Not Protesting The #IndiasDaughter Ban
BBC India filmed a documentary about the 2012 Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) gangrape. The Indian government banned it. #IndiasDaughter
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Old Healed Wounds That Ache In Bad Weather
At the Performance Poetry workshop I attended yesterday, we looked at some videos of performers. One of them had a few notes playing in the background and the performer speaking in a characteristic singsong, often-rhyming style. I blurted out, “But that’s rap!” The others smiled and told me that rap…
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The Game – Neil Strauss: Negging & Begging
A pick-up artist wrote a book called ‘The Game’ and he may as well have called it, ‘A little negging, a lot of begging’.
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Buzzfeed’s Imaan Sheikh & Rape Culture
Imaan Sheikh was the name on Twitter’s buzz because of a screenshot of her tweets from three years earlier.
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#SixWordStories: February 13th
Happy anniversary, lover.Happy anniversary, liar.
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The Music Of An Ex
Your voice still terrifies me. If anger were energy, you’re a nuclear reactor. But I only saw the gravity, I only heard the pain, I only felt your fear. And inside your head, for you, I became everything I could see. No wonder you hate me. Now, every now and…
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Baby Invisible: On Sex, Emotional boundaries & Identity
A poem about emotional boundaries and sex
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The Dragon And The Paper Plane
I got my second tattoo yesterday. It is a paper plane, embellished in the watercolour style and is etched flying off my right wrist.
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How To Make A Paper Plane
This was my first ever performance of something I’d written.
