BoisLockerRoom – The Tipping Point When And How Did It All Start? It is observed that from prehistoric to Indus valley civilization of Harappa and Mohen-jo-Daro, women had enjoyed an equal status with men. The references found in Vedas include several reasons to believe that the ‘stone age society’ was a matriarchal one. Unlike today’s […]
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Sanitary Napkins Production During Lockdown By Saumya Khatri India, like many other countries, resorted to the strict nationwide lockdown in order to combat the spread of the lethal COVID-19 or Coronavirus. The nationwide lockdown meant restriction on movements of goods, services and people until and unless they were ‘essential’. As soon as the announcement of lockdown
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Body Positivity & Mental Health Amidst COVID-19 Lockdown By Saumya Khatri The times we are living in are eerily resembling a dystopian movie where a deadly virus is killing thousands of people everyday throughout the world and the cure is yet to be found. We can’t do anything except stay indoors, wash our hands frequently, not
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Safe Sex: A Comprehensive Webinar By Eshna Sharma ‘Making Sex Safer’ conducted by the eminent gynaecologist Dr. Seema Sharma was an extremely comprehensive and interactive webinar that focused not only on the basics of safe sex such as practicing the usage of condoms, but dove deeper underneath the surface to talk about the various intricacies involved in making
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Policy in Action – Sexual Harassment By Anura Pareek To address the rampant issue of sexual harassment of women and the legal recourse and support available, the webinar took place on 28th April, 2020. The one hour long session, led by Advocate Manasi Chaudhari, was followed by an interactive round of questions and answers. Watch full session here.
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The Impact of Sex Education in Preventing Sexual Crime By Saumya Khatri Sexual crimes, sex education and patriarchy, these words may sound considerably different from one another but when studied closely, they have a lot in common. Societies built upon the structure of patriarchy often deal with high sexual crimes against women and other LGBTIQ+
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Sex Workers and the Lockdown: A Fight for Survival By Anura Pareek While going under a lockdown to combat the coronavirus was a difficult but extremely vital decision, the hasty enforcement has left daily wage workers utterly helpless. With no means of transportation, a large number of migrant workers are marooned from their homes, with
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Not Safe at Home Anymore By Tanisha Saxena The coronavirus pandemic has left nearly 2.87 million people battling with its severe ramifications by testing positive, while more than 202,000 have succumbed to its deathly grip (as on April 25, 2020). Most nations have been in a strict lockdown for nearly two months. However, these are
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Let’s Talk About Sex! Catchy isn’t it? No, it isn’t a clickbait!“Let’s talk about sex” was the theme of a recent event organized by a youth organisation Pratisandhi that aims to promote dialogue on sexual health education in India. The organisation has been doing a remarkable job in normalising conversations regarding sexual health and related
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Plan B: An insight into emergency contraceptives In the previous blog, we covered pre-planned oral contraception pills aka Plan A. But what do you do when things don’t turn out the way you had planned? You resort to Plan B! When it comes to contraceptives, this plan B is known as emergency contraceptive pill or morning
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