The Menstrual Cup Month: There Will Be Blood
My first days with a menstrual cup
Gender
What An Old Boyfriend Taught Me About Respect
We met for coffee recently. He was my first boyfriend and I, his first girlfriend. We were both 19 when we met and it was instant him-and-me at first sight. We’ve kept in touch and we catch up for a coffee and a chat on each other’s lives every couple…
SHHH, Loud Is Not Ladylike
I was at dinner with three men. And one of them kept telling me, “Shhh! Don’t talk so loudly!”
5 Things Every Woman Should Do For Her Body
Empowerment begins with taking responsibility for yourself. If you’re a woman, take charge of your body.
Bromantically Yours, Girl
Let me start with this bromance joke that absolutely cracked me up: Do guys in a bromance get each other flower “Dude, here I got you some broses” “Oh man bro, you read my mind I got you some daffodudes” I’m in a bromance. It’s with another woman. No, we…
Dark Girls Have All The Fun
It’s the ultimate rejection of everything India thinks about dark women.
BOOK: In The Last Chance Saloon
The first time time I read ‘The Last Chance Saloon’, I didn’t like what it did to me. Which is not to say that I didn’t like it.
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?
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
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’.