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January 19, 2010By Guest Contributor By Janice Pariat Bertha & I Tags: bertha mason, janice pariat, poem, sylvia plath | Category: Art, Celebrating Women, Desipundit, Love, Marriage, Poetry, Women's Lives |
January 13, 2010By Anindita Sengupta THE BANGALORE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL (BQFF 2010) is calling for submissions. The deadline is 30 January 2010. Details here. November 19, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat THE AUDIENCE WAS FLUSH WITH estrogen, but had a heartening dose of the Y chromosome. I wondered if the cocktail reception that preceded the event was a marketing ploy or a genuine attempt to fortify our spirits for what was to come. I found out soon enough. November 08, 2009By Sharanya Manivannan PENELOPE TRUNK CAUSED A tremendous controversy when she Tweeted about her miscarriage (and the fact that she was glad she didn’t have to wait for an abortion, which is difficult to get in her part of the USA). I found the controversy ridiculous on many levels – after all, many people share personal information online [...] Tags: abortion, Eve Ensler, miscarriage, Penelope Trunk | Category: Art, Culture, Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Media, Morality, Our Bodies, Women's Lives |
September 17, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat …YOU MAY WANT TO take a look at this invite: Anyone want to get me that yummy t-shirt in red? Tags: expression, Gender, Indian society and women, women, women's history | Category: Art, Celebrating Women, Gender, Women's Lives |
September 08, 2009By Guest Contributor By Aditi Srivastava “In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic [...] Tags: bollywood, Dev.D | Category: Art, Desipundit, Love, Morality, Popular Culture, Relationships, Sex and Sexuality |
June 23, 2009By Guest Contributor By Nitoo Das Beloved, Tags: feminist art, Nitoo Das, Poetry, women's writing | Category: Art, Celebrating Women, Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Poetry |
June 21, 2009By Anindita Sengupta MERLE HOFFMAN in the latest issue of On the Issues Magazine: Tags: clitoris, feminist quote, judith brodsky, merle hoffman, missing women, on feminism, On the Issues magazine, sex ed | Category: Art, Identity and Destination, Media, Our Bodies |
June 08, 2009By Aparna Singh LAST YEAR, when I read Lotus’ review of The Road of Lost Innocence, just the review was enough to send shivers down my spine. I doubt I have the stomach for the entire book. The Road of Lost Innocence is a survivor’s account, the memoir of Somaly Mam who survived the brutality of the Cambodian sex [...] Tags: film, prostitution in India, trafficking of women, your name is justine | Category: Art, Culture, Exploitation, Gender, Justice, Prostitution, Violence Against women |
March 09, 2009By Sharanya Manivannan Sleep wherever is most convenient for you. Tags: frida kahlo, inspiration, poems, Poetry, role models, sharanya manivannan, witchcraft | Category: Art, Books, Poetry, Women's Lives |
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