Gender and Sexuality

Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books

An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct

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India’s first transgender Sarpanch vows to turn her village into an ideal village

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Egypt: Somewhere over the rainbow there are police ready to pounce

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Taiwan, 1st Asian Country to Legalize Gay Marriage, Shouldn’t India Follow Suit?

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‘Concentration camps’ opened for Gay Men in Chechnya

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Women marching worldwide revive a long-sought dream: global feminism

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Understand the Struggle: Exceptional Achievements of Trans-peoples

In 2016, trans-visibility was high, but so were trans-deaths...

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