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Putting the Toilet Seat Down: When feminism becomes an everyday act

November 20, 2025 9:56 pm

Can’t I just be a good person without being a feminist? Harshveer Jain's book provides some answers

Mamata Banerjee has failed a rape survivor, again

October 14, 2025 4:05 pm

Mamata Banerjee reinforced what women have been told for generations, that safety is their own burden.

Karnataka’s menstrual leave policy: The problem isn’t periods. It’s that workplaces are built for men

October 15, 2025 11:35 am

Nearly everything about the modern workplace is calibrated to male biology and life patterns. Women experience them on borrowed terms, through menstruation, pregnancy, and caregiving

Our Karwa Chauth love story: We fast together because love isn't one-sided

October 10, 2025 9:20 pm

Karwa Chauth has traditionally been seen as a wife’s devotion to her husband. But why should care be gendered?

Short dresses, long lectures: Why men are still asking women to 'go home'

October 07, 2025 6:58 pm

What happened in Rishikesh isn’t just an isolated burst of chauvinism. It’s part of a larger culture that polices women constantly: From school uniforms to workplace attire to the way women employees are indirectly asked to be more “agreeable”

How feminists have long viewed violence as means for oppression of women

October 04, 2025 9:12 am

According to NCRB’s 2023 Crime in India report, crime against women increased by 0.7 per cent. But how does this uptick reaffirm the long-standing concerns raised by feminists about the systemic nature of violence against women?

The performative male: From tote bags to matcha lattes, when sensitivity becomes a badge

October 28, 2025 6:38 pm

From Sally Rooney to therapy-speak, a look at how literature anticipates and anatomises the 'performative male', and the bind of modern masculinity.

Why I gave myself permission to take the best room in the house

September 23, 2025 12:39 pm

When women take up space — emotionally and physically — the impact ripples far beyond the four walls. A sun-lit home office became a site of personal transformation

The ‘tradwife’ offers only the illusion of a feminist choice

September 03, 2025 5:53 pm

When a term that glamourises women’s subservience is normalised as just another lifestyle label, it puts the next generation of women at risk

'You are obliterating yourself': The cost of caregiving as a middle-aged woman

August 07, 2025 11:42 am

As a feminist and full-time caregiver to ageing parents, I’m rethinking what empowerment really looks like

FEMINISM VIDEOS

On this day in 1960, Sri Lanka elected its first female head of state.

June 22, 2020 6:21 pm

Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the prime minister of Sri Lanka, giving the country its first female head of state. See more: https://bit.ly/2Ld0BOG

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