Bombay High Court Decides Groping Without ‘Skin to Skin Contact’ is not Sexual Assault
This decision modifies the conviction of a 39-year-old man, referred to as "Satish," who had been sentenced by a lower ...
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Our Honour is Greater Than Our “Purity”
Patriarchy always has very strong roots in South Asian culture. A lot of the times, womxn are not encouraged to ...
Processing Relationships After Sexual Assault
This poem explains how and why I feel damaged or broken and why I believe I am difficult to love, ...
Poem: ‘Reclaiming my Sexuality After Assault’
"My Hands" narrates my experience of masturbation post-assault. As a survivor of sexual assault, the way I processed all things ...
A Response to the Sordid “Locker Room Bois” Group Chat
I was deeply upset and angered that a group chat called “The Locker Room Bois” was even a thing. After ...
Kasur, Pakistan is Surviving a Brutal Epidemic of Child Abuse Dating Back 13 Years
The city, just south of Lahore and part of the Pakistani province of Punjab, has in recent years weathered a ...
Mrinalini Chakraborty Talks Intersectionality and the Importance of This Year’s Women’s March
Women’s March Board Member Mrinalini Chakraborty discussed the new focus the organization has taken, the inspiration behind the movement, and her own ...
16 Charged in Bangladesh for Fatal Burning of Nusrat Jahan Rafi
Sixteen people including the headmaster of an Islamic school in the Feni district, for the murder of 19-year old Nusrat ...
‘Because We Are Girls’: A Personal, Yet All Too Relatable Story Thrust Onto the Global Stage
"Because We Are Girls" is a beautiful yet tragic illustration of how the personal and political are mapped onto the ...
Remembering Asifa: We Have to do Better, India
India: the second country in the world with the most number of mosques. India: home to the Taj Mahal, which ...
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