The Politics Of Smile
You should smile more, women are told, it makes you look good. This is said as a compliment but is erasure.
Womanhood
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39 Looks Like This
Don’t erase my history and tell me that it’s a compliment. 39 looks like this.
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Where I Regret Doing The Right Thing
It was respite from the morning’s fight, a common occurrence in the horror story I lived in. It didn’t feel right.
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No, I Do Not Want To Take Your Dating App Virginity
Dating app virgins who open with “This is my first time here”. The Indian man is already an unappetizing offering on a dating app. But a dating app virgin?
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A Bleeding Goddess
Don’t objectify me. Don’t deify me. I am not a sex object. I am not a worship object. I am no goddess. I am a person. I am a voice.
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Arre: My Tinder Bio – Not Here To Mother 20-Somethings
Arre ran one of my stories this week and I’m thrilled!
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6 Bollywood Characters You Didn’t Know Were Feminist | FeminismInIndia
Can on-screen feminism go beyond the samajh-sudharak, abla naari turned Kali maa & speech spouting devi? Let’s meet some of the subtler on-screen feminists.
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Lust Stories: Wham, Bam And A Thankless Ma’am
This weekend saw the Netflix Originals premier of ‘Lust Stories‘ – a format repeat from the 2013 anthology ‘Bombay Talkies’, with the same four directors, each contributing one story. Let me pause a minute to CRINGE at that name so you can understand why I was expecting something along on…
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If You Won’t Let Us Laugh, Someday We’ll Make You Cry
‘Veere Di Wedding’ caused an uproar. Why? Because Indian audiences find it intolerable for women to laugh, much less laugh together.
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Always Make Room For The Flowers
This picture was shot by a sweet young photographer at an Open Mic event in 2012 when she spotted the flowers I was carrying.
