Shake It! Let’s Demystify Masturbation Now! To begin with such a piece, it is essential that masturbation, at the initiation, be considered an important topic to deliberate upon. It is as essential a repository of questions, as the domain of menstruation. Stigmas and misconceptions about masturbation have persisted through different generations, and continue to do …
Chakka! The Word From Where It Begins Never underestimate the power of words. They can act as bottle caps to stop the flow in a fixed shape. Or, they can become the propeller for someone’s journey. It all started with the evenings when a small child was called ei chakka. It all started with a word …
How Effective Is School Menstrual Hygiene Management? Winkler (2020) puts the discussion about menstruation in the intersection of class, caste, physiology, psychology, and sexuality into the academic collection Beauty in Blood. The range of topics which it brings into its ambit puts it down clearly that the act of making policies for menstrual hygiene management …
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Speaking Sex: An Interview With Danielle This interview shares insights from Danielle Bezalel, MPH about sexual and reproductive health and the journey of the Sex Ed with DB Podcast. This interview was conducted by Subhi, a content curator at Pratisandhi. Q – What is your idea of sex? Danielle– I really love this question. I think that …
A Talk With The Once Silent, Shilok Mukti Pratisandhi’s Editorial team got in touch with Shilok Mukti, who is a performer, poet, and feminist activist. She has left a mark with her art, poetry, LGBTQIA+ talks, and feminist ideologues. Edits have been made for the purpose of reporting. Question – Starting with our first question, …
How Prosperous Is ‘Laxmii’ Movie Narrative For The Transgender People? The world of media can provide space for different representations. It provides opportunities for different narratives to come-in and makes themselves heard, through their media story. However, for the same, there are a series of sanctions that a particular narrative has to acquire. It has …
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Parents and Risking Binary One of the countable joys that a doctor feels is the moment of giving the good news to a couple who have become parents. The child comes to the world, bringing with it responsibilities and priorities for the couple. As the mother pushes out the baby, with the angst of having …
Stereo about the Stereotypes At the very onset, this article will clear certain preliminary points. First, the treatment of stereotypes is not based on the clinical, ‘authenticate’ definition of any manual of psychology. Second, the article does not claim that there has not been any progress, but only highlights the underlying forces, parallel to the definition of …
To Free the Curious: HFO 4.0 The ending of 2020 was marked with hopes for a better year. The replacement of zero with one made 2021 a year of the first ray of hope for the betterment of the world. With the increasing number of infections, the vaccine was the first step towards this year. …
Theatre to Reach Girls Roles assigned to each individual in the society, based on their biological characteristics, did not emerge in the linear evolutionary manner. In the course of history, as the human brain evolved, it intended to build a certain foundational structure – society. For this deal to last in harmony, it was necessary …