October 10, 2013

Flavours

[Editor’s note: One helping of healthy feminism, please! What’s your flavour of choice? 🙂 Tell us! Oh, and click on the image to enlarge it. ~ Dilnavaz Bamboat]

September 24, 2013

Event Announcement: Panel Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

Reclaiming Rights: Challenging Gender-based Violence in South Asia

Date and time: Wednesday, September 25, 2013; 6 to 8 pm

Venue: International Development Exchange (IDEX), 333 Valencia St., Suite 250, San Francisco

About the event:

The Delhi and Mumbai gangrapes have garnered critical public attention, outrage, and mobilising in India […]

September 10, 2013

Always Around the Corner: Using Female Abuse to Sell

I RECENTLY RECEIVED a comment from a reader of another blog I write, stating that she didn’t believe patriarchy was such a menace in America. I read the comment, took a deep breath, and pondered on the gentlest possible way to dispel that notion without mailing her a dossier of statistics. Turns out I didn’t […]

July 12, 2013

The Calvinists

[Editor’s note: Here is another one of Lavanya Karthik’s comic strips, as part of our ongoing Feminism & Humour series. We enjoy interacting with you and knowing what you found amusing, thought-provoking or otherwise. Please feel free to leave your comments! ~ Dilnavaz Bamboat]

 

 

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April 30, 2013

Woohoo, Jazz Hands Everyone!

[Editor’s Note: Continuing with our Feminism & Humor series, here is the first of what we hope will be Lavanya Karthik’s many comic strips for Ultra Violet. This was first published in the DNA, Bangalore, and can also be viewed on the cartoonist’s website. Feminism and the funnies are not mutually exclusive. Come laugh with […]

April 24, 2013

Event Announcement: Talk

 

 

 

 

Women and Democratic Movements in India: Changing Dynamics, Altered Perspectives

Date & time: Tuesday, April 30, 2013; 1 pm

Venue: Encina Hall West, Room 208, Stanford University, 616 Serra St., Stanford, CA

About the event & the speaker:

Fee: This event is free and open to the public.

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March 25, 2013

Dot, Not Feather: An American Desi in the Rocky Mountains

THEY CALL ME Indian. No, not that kind of Indian. Dot, not feather. This is the sort of thing a person of South Asian heritage gets used to being asked frequently in America. Insensitivity of those types of comments aside, there is certainly a lot one can hear about being Indian without knowing the reality, […]

January 26, 2013

“Man Prayer”

 

 

I’VE SAID IT BEFORE and I’ll say it again: feminism cannot and should not exist without men. Here is a video titled “Man Prayer” for One Billion Rising, by Tony Stroebel, with words by Eve Ensler. I couldn’t help noticing, though, that the powerful sentiments were scripted by a woman. 😉

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January 17, 2013

Am I a Feminist?

[Editor’s note: This piece is the first of a series on Feminism & Humor that we look forward to sharing with you on Ultra Violet. Enjoy!–Dilnavaz Bamboat]

I GREW UP IN India, as the only child of parents who did not expect me to observe any of the socially accepted behaviors for women. My parents […]

December 04, 2012

Event Announcement: Presentation

 

Dalits in America: Rendering Caste Visible in the Diaspora

Date & Time: Thursday, December 6, 2012; 7 pm

Venue: History Corner (Bldg 200), Room 203, Stanford University,

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

About the event:

“Caste exists wherever Indians exist and … manifests itself in a myriad of ways,” writes Thenmozhi Soundararajan […]

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