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“August is the winter of summer I’m resting assured.” ~ Ayesha Siddiqi
Policies, Systems and Resistance
- In a landmark case, the Supreme Court allows the fourteen-year old rape survivor to abort, although the law excuses abortion only within 20 weeks of pregnancy (TW: discussion of sexual violence)
- Following up on the veil ban by Supreme Court, an Aligarh University student speaks out on the misogyny specifically targeting Muslim women at the heart of this law
- A recent study by the Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 reveals that women head 23 million households in rural India and many other findings about gender
- In a scathing piece, Thenmozhi Soundarajan explains how India’s caste culture is a culture that condones rape and sexual violence of Dalit women
Yours, Mine & Ours: On Bodies, Lives and Lived Experiences
- Lalita Iyer shares her experience of consciously and critically growing into loving her body, and the ambivalent “politics of thin”
- Here’s an interesting read in Tehelka about Indian migrant nurses, most of whom are women from the South, and their precarious status as employees in the UK
- Anuradha Roy is the only Indian to be selected on the Man Booker Prize 2015 longlist. Read about her book and her story here, amid an array of female nominees at par in number with the male candidates at this year’s Booker selections.
- Read Sneha Rajaram’s commentary on the intersection of radical feminism and chick lit in Sarai Walker’s Dietland
- Sonali Gulati on her life as a lesbian navigating family, rejecting marriage, and Section 377 in light of marriage equality in the States.
- Meet Meghna Kaur Jaswal, a writer whose book Inheritance, sparks a dialogue around the less-talked-about Sikh diaspora in Singapore
- Why is the “know your neighbourhood rapist” rhetoric insidious, and more?
- Nirbashito, a film about the struggles and experiences of exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen (and her cat) is “on screen” this week!
- Check out what this The Ladies’ Finger article has to say about “Gender Bender”, the playful, diverse art show focusing on gender performativity and presentation, organized in Bangalore earlier this month.
- Read about what Panmai, the first of its kind transgender theater group in Tamil Nadu, has to say about trans productions as a platforms to tell their stories
- What does it mean for women to photograph their nudes? What kind of relationships do selfies allow many to forge with their bodies? Nishita Jha shares women’s varied experiences with cyber-stalking, abuse, sex positivity on the internet, desire and selfie-care/love.
On Gender, Race and Popular Culture
- The trailer for the upcoming film Stonewall, based on the LGBT+ liberation in Stonewall Riots, erases the Black Drag Queens and trans women of colour who spearheaded the movement. Read more criticisms about the whitewashing of queer liberation struggles in film here and here.
- OOMK (One of My Kind): This London-based zine run by queer Muslim women and people of colour uses multimedia art to help youth navigate their identity, girlhood and race in the emerging “war of terror”
- What happens when female rapper Sofia Ashraf raps on Nicki-Minaj-inspired-Anaconda-beat about the the environmental and health damage caused by Hindustan Unilever in Kodaikanal, the hill station that is increasingly also, a sight of immense political resistance? Read more about the struggle in context of the music video here.
A warm and lazy goodbye, feminists! Have a restful and exciting week, unlearning (and self-caring).