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!”
Womanhood
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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.
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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…
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Dark Girls Have All The Fun
It’s the ultimate rejection of everything India thinks about dark women.
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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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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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Baby Invisible: On Sex, Emotional boundaries & Identity
A poem about emotional boundaries and sex
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Why I Don’t Want To Be A Mother
Last year, I went to see my gynacologist. She asked if I’d like to freeze my eggs. It made me consider the role of mother.
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Out On Singles Town
Out On Singles Town Something interesting that happened to me in 2014 was meeting two different guys and deciding NOT to pursue relationships with them. I remember an Ally McBeal episode (does anybody even remember that show?) where she says, “I don’t actually date, not for the fun of it….
