Please Mend The Gap
I have been writing a lot on women’s rights and gender dynamics and other things. Recently, I came across an interesting project online to create easily distributed information in the […]
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Women and Power : The Gender Battle
Patterns of assumptions and stereotypes manipulate collective responses. Patterns based on things we refuse to acknowledge or even are aware of. “Strong man”, “Caring mother”, “damsel in distress”, “hen pecked”, “old coot”,
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Police state and illegitimate citizens
We as a society seem to be getting more and more repressed and judgmental, even as the government seems to be making more and more rules to fix problems. Living
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Marriages cases lots of problems in Herat : Afghan Life
The latest contribution from our brave and insightful Gity Yousafi. This post is a part of the Afghan Life series, which is a series of emails and articles written by
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Questioning the sex ratio and reflexive assumptions: India census 2011
Our gender ratio is now 912 female kids to every 1000 male. Female foeticide is a bitch. No pun intended. Sex abortions are illegal in India. I am totally against
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Thoughts on Democracy: The rulers, the opposers and the irrelevants
As a kid, I remember questioning “If someone is really good at making country decisions, but doesn’t have money to advertise, then aren’t we losing him?” That’s profound, but I
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Gender, Culture and Fertility
So many things to write about, so much to do. I describe myself as a nomad. The life of Nomad is one that is home everywhere. Many things are happening
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Feminism and society
Call me old fashioned or ignorant, but I am well aware that I am not entirely cues in to this feminism thing. I am female. I am a housewife, a
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Eunuchs, transgenders, Hijras, Kotis…..
The transgendered community is a world of its own, intersecting with the “normal” in a garish parody of revulsion and macabre fascination that leaves no room for them to be anything other than objects to project society’s prejudices on.
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