Mad Men: THE SUMMER MAN – How A Woman Navigates Power
The Mad Men episode ‘The Summer Man’ brings up insights about how each woman navigates power & microggressions in the workplace.
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When You Have A Choice In Your Story: Choices ‘Slow Burn’
Slow Burn on the Choices app highlights the importance of sensitive representation in interactive stories, showing how diversity shapes narrative choice.
Decolonizing Ted Lasso: Race & Gender On A Football Field
Ted Lasso – A critical analysis of the show’s portrayal of race and gender dynamics. Unpacks themes of predation, tokenism, and white supremacy.
Review: HONOUR – Elif Shafak: Trauma Love Of Brown Women
‘Honour’ by Elif Shafak examines Turkish patriarchy mingling with Western traditions & values. It addresses gendered violence, racism & economic exploitation.
The Pandemic Cook: How I Learnt To Love Food
In India, you’re not allowed to be a woman who can’t cook. The pandemic brought me ways to navigate this and a new appreciation of food.
Infidelity & The Good Places It Takes Us
What are the consequences of cheating? What does infidelity do to us and where do we go from there?
Welcome To The Friendzone
The friendzone assumes that women owe men sex for nice behaviour. This mindset is part of rape culture, whose other manifestations are incels and acid attacks.
BOOK REVIEW: Home – Manju Kapur | Coming Back To Me
A lovely return to my late 20s where books absorbed me with a rigour I did not experience in my social or professional life. It was like coming home.
Finding Myself In My Body: Reclaiming Pain
A house that is a warzone. A courtroom for custody battles. Dumping ground for other people’s pain. My body.
A Truce With Gender
If I were fifteen years younger, I’d identify as nonbinary. Gender has been the biggest weapon of the beaten path.