On 27 July, Pratisandhi’s team of volunteers underwent Educator Training to prepare for our upcoming project – Safeguarding Classrooms. Let us look at what went on behind the scenes to help us promote our message of Gender-Transformative Education across schools!
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Educators have had to come up with new ways to impart sex education, from textbooks to animated shorts. Comic books might just be one of them, with their artistic potential.
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The New Education Policy 2020 has been all the rage recently. Earning several accolades for reform and improvement, it still misses the mark with respect to one issue- comprehensive, inclusive, and accessible sexual education. Click here to find out more about how this new policy continues to propagate the stigma around sex.
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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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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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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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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
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Being a Girl Child in the Post-Pandemic World Earlier last year, the whole world scurried back into their houses, hoping to protect themselves from the dangers posed by the alien and strange virus. However, while we stayed at home, baked banana bread, made Dalgona coffee, and complained about the world has come to a standstill,
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Bras: to wear or not to wear? Written by- Medha Sharma and Suhasi Dewan Breaking the Myths around Bras There are ample amounts of myths about going braless that dictate our lives since time immemorial. The sociological constructs are so rigid and programmed in our society that it gives little to no space for a conflicting idea
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What a Slut! Written by- Abhivyakti Gupta & Vagmi Sharma Who is a Sex Worker? “Unethical! Illegal! What a disgrace! This is socially unacceptable!! Shameless!” These are often the words that come to one’s mind when they hear the word ‘sex worker’. According to WHO, sex work is defined as the provision of sexual services for money or
