All posts tagged "India"
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No One’s Daughter
Last week in class, we watched Queen, a Bollywood film about a middle-class Indian woman who, after she is jilted by her fiancé, decides to...
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Asha Kowtal and Thenmozhi Soundararajan: The Journey towards Liberation
By Sonia J. Cheruvillil Part 2 **** In 2012, the Haryana district in India witnessed a significant and historic moment in Dalit women’s movement. Organized...
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Dalit Women, Sexual Violence and the Geography of Caste: A Journey towards Liberation – An Interview with Asha Kowtal and Thenmozhi Soundararajan
By Sonia J. Cheruvillil Part #1 **** In 2012, the Haryana district in India witnessed a significant and historic moment in Dalit women’s movement. Organized...
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Shitty Justice: Environmental Injustice in India —Part 2
I begin again with questions (I hope you remember this is still an “interrogative text” where there are no answers as in disclosures. Therefore closure...
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Shitty Justice: Environmental Injustice in India —Part I
In January 2013, I along with five colleagues from Connecticut College traveled to India for “Global Environmental Justice” field trip. A semester long seminar of...
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Elementary Feminisms: Accepting People As They Are
By Caleb Peterson People don’t always get the rights they deserve, and are punished for things they have no control of. People get killed or...
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AVERAGED: A Photo Essay
By Brook Dorff AVERAGED is a collection of photographs and personal histories taken in Andhra Pradesh, India. The documentation of stories and images in the...
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Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality
By Chaya Babu I was a few weeks into my freshman year at Duke when my sister, a senior at the time, said to me,...
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It's Open Girl-Meat Season
By Jawahara Saidullah “Kya maal hai.” What good stuff. “Bilkul sahi cheez yaar.” Absolutely, great stuff, man. Maal means, stuff, thing, or merchandise. So does...
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An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India
Mr. Prime Minister: I read today that you were “disturbed” about the rape of another child in Delhi, a five-year-old girl. My question to you...
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Marriage Equality and Beyond: A View from India
A few days before my Facebook News Feed was flooded with red equal signs, I went to a short march in Bangalore. The Gender and...
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Op-Ed: Putting Violence Against Women on ‘Display’
By Laura Odenthal At first glance Syria, India, and the U.S. have little in common. However, even with their potentially divisive geographic locations and ideological...
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Feminist in My Kitchen
By Nilofar Ansher The Romantic Tedium of Cooking Our notions of love and nurture are bound with the flavor, texture and warmth of food cooked...
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Delhi: From Shame to Defiance
By Harsha Walia Two months ago, Jyoti Singh Pandey was brutally raped and beaten by a group of men in Delhi. She died a few...
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Feminists We Love: Sonali Gulati
Sonali Gulati is an independent filmmaker, a feminist, grassroots activist, and an educator. She is an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Photography & Film. She...
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Op-Ed: Women, Rape, and Lack of Toilets
By Sunil Bhatia In the aftermath of the gruesome gang rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapist in New Delhi, the Government of India set...
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“If You Are Now Saying, No, Women Are Equal…”
By Amita Chudgar The day after our teach-in, on January 24th, 2013, the airwaves and newspapers were filled with the announcement that the U.S. Pentagon...
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A Timeline of Events in the Delhi Gang-Rape Case
By Karin Zitzewitz I begin with a brief timeline of the attack, the protests that followed it, and then offer some suggestions first about how...
