The Road Not Taken: NCERT Inclusivity Manual In Indian schools and institutions, the meaning of ‘inclusiveness’ often gets lost as a principle and value the schools wish to abide by. However, in practice, schools often become the epicenter of discrimination and prejudices in action towards pliable juveniles that often scar them for life. We often […]
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The Annual Celebration of Patriarchy: Indian Edition Until a few years ago, I used to love holidays for the simple reason that I got an off from school, got to repudiate my everyday casuals, and adorn beautiful clothes. As I grow older, I question myself, is that all that Indian festivals have to them? Apart
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Female Pleasure – Mind The Orgasm Gap! As a young girl raised in a conservative country, I grew up believing that sex was sinful. Sinful enough for it to be pushed under the rug for all my adolescent years. Sinful enough to make intimate movie scenes with parents awkward and embarrassing. Sex was always considered
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Breaking The Binary: Answers To Your Questions About The LGBTQIA+ Community As we revel in this pride month, we often tend to forget that pride month is more than just a way for big multinational companies to express support towards the LGBTQIA+ community. It is more than a market gimmick rather than showing allyship. Adding
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The Bloody Debate: Both Sides Of The Period Leave Policy We can all agree that periods are a subjective experience in themselves, not all women experience periods alike. Some women have heavy periods, while some women have light periods; others may have periods that last a week and some women have periods that last 3
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Vex-Ed About Sex-Ed: An Interview With Mallika and Vartika Saairah Mehta had the opportunity to interview the co-founders of a sex-ed organization, Vex-Ed, Mallika Bawa, and Vartika. Mallika and Vartika attended school together and have been friends ever since. Mallika studies zoology at St. Xaviers University, Mumbai, and Vartika studies biomedical sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Vex-Ed
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How PCOS Changed The Way I Look At Femininity I had barely entered my teenage years when I was diagnosed with a polycystic ovarian disease, colloquially known as PCOS. Imagine a young 13-year-old, a year short of having started her periods, being told that there are cysts in her ovaries. Many of them! And that
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An Ode To Middle-Class Dreams: ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitaare’ Long gone are the days when media would use objects such as swans and flowers to represent sexual advances allegorically. Bollywood and mainstream media have always been rather thorny about addressing subject matter relating to women’s needs and fighting against the patriarchal we have
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Patriarchal Pretense of a Modern Family “I live in a modern, educated family,” said at least someone once in your life, maybe even yourself. Anyone with parents who do the bare minimum and read and participate in active discussions regarding social and political context claims themselves to be belonging to a modern family. Decoding the
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Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby Puberty is a word we’re semi-unacquainted with. Contemporary education has made us remember all the characteristic features of puberty such as breast growth, menstruation, and growth of pubic hair in women and development of the penis, deepening of the voice, the emergence of defined Adam’s apple in males, and whatnot.
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