September 24, 2013

Event Announcement: Panel Discussion

By Dilnavaz Bamboat

 

 

 

 

 

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 […]

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September 16, 2013

We Shall Overcome

By Rajiv Khanna

 

THE RAPE OF THE 23-year old medical student, Ms. Jyoti Singh Pandey, in New Delhi in December 2012 outraged many around the world. Sadly, for those of us with ties to India, this crime, as horrific and shocking as it was, did not come as a complete surprise. More recently, the same act was […]

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September 12, 2013

Gloria Steinem in Comic Form!

By Dilnavaz Bamboat

IT DELIGHTS ME TO share this news with you: Pioneering feminist and woman of power Gloria Steinem will now be the leading lady of her very own comic book. This latest addition to Melissa Seymour’s “Female Force” series will highlight the icon’s contributions to the world.

It is a bonus that her story will […]

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September 10, 2013

Always Around the Corner: Using Female Abuse to Sell

By Dilnavaz Bamboat

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 […]

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