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Celebrating Women’s Day by bringing back the Sacred Feminine

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments

This blog used to be saturated with Feminism, women’s issues, gender theories. In honor of Women’s Day, I’m revisiting it in a new light.
The day’s articles mostly look at women’s status and what can be done to improve it; in India, the big issue is the Women’s Reservation Bill. Though many (including me) decry the [...]

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Tags: empowerment · feminism · spirituality

Gulabi Gang video

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Via Feministing.

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Tags: activism · empowerment · feminism · legal issues · violence against women/harrassment

Film Friday

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

I have been meaning to write a post on this movie for a while, and I’ve decided to try to do a regular Film Friday feature. It’s called Le Beau Mariage–not sure if it’s at all based on a play called Un Beau Mariage but I don’t think so. Somewhat randomly, it was playing in [...]

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Tags: culture · economic development · feminism · gender roles and division of labour · marriage/divorce · media

Feminism ‘Unlimited’

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

My recent post on UltraViolet:
I VOLUNTEERED TO HELP at the Jaipur Film Festival and one of the films I liked most was UnLimited Girls by Paromita Vohra, which is being touted as India’s first feminist film. UnLimited Girls humorously explores engagements with feminism in contemporary India and is a must-see for those participating in this [...]

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Tags: activism · culture · feminism · me · media

Linking feminism and spirituality

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” –Margaret Fuller f(rom the Sunday TOI)

I don’t recall ever having heard of Fuller, but apparently she was the 1st Feminist in the US (her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work [...]

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Tags: activism · culture · feminism · religion · spirituality