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It’s Time to Stop Laughing at Cat Lady Jokes (And Stuff You Should Already Know)

By Lavanya Sinha (She/Her) 12th August, 2020

What is an unwed older woman in the eyes of the world today? Nothing unusual, we should hope? Cool? Empowered? Sweet? Ordinary? A woman? Bah. Perfe...

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Here Are 10 Series With Powerful Women Leads We Should Know About

By Ojas Khurana 21st July, 2020

I just finished a brilliant action series, and we must talk about it! We are flooded with content and in this flood, it is easy to miss out on the ...

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Little Women: A Timeless Feminist Presence In Pop Culture

By Anupriya Dubey 15th June, 2020

Warning: spoilers ahead.

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Looking Back At Pop Culture That Influenced Me: Million Dollar Baby

By Mehar Kaul 5th March, 2020

Whatever society expects from you, to be a certain someone at a certain age, especially when you are a woman - none of it matters when you have big...

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Bakor Putek Film Review: How Norms Can Ruin Lives

By Subhalaxmi Borah 3rd March, 2020

Set up in a relatively isolated village in Assam, the 2012 film Bakor Putek (directed by Chandra Mudoi) vividly portrays the grappling issues of so...

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How Indian Pop Culture Pigeonholes Women | #ViolenceIsNotFilmy

By Archita Joshi 2nd March, 2020

If we reinforce cultural stereotypes in films, advertisements and various forms of pop culture, we should not be surprised if they play out in real...

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5 Feminist Songs For The Weekend (Or Everyday!) – Part 2

By Drishti Chikhal 9th January, 2020

In my previous blog, I established how important music was in our lives and mentioned my top six favourite Indian feminist songs. But even though t...

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Given Its Vast Popularity, Does Anime Have Feminist Potential?

By Shivanshu Awasthi 5th November, 2019

Like TV shows, anime also encompasses incredible storytelling coupled with compelling graphics and animation and a soundtrack that is out of this w...

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The Representation Of Stalking, I Mean ‘Love’, In Bollywood

By Orpheus Sen 15th October, 2019

Several movies in the early 1990s and 2000s were based on stories of assiduous stalking, which were portrayed as buoyant acts to win over the roman...

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How Barbie Violated Body Image, Self-Esteem And Consent

By Prageet Goel 26th September, 2019

The dolls have immensely unrealistic body proportions when compared to an average woman’s body.