Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment must end! If you’ve logged on to social media recently, you will have seen many women updating their statuses, sending tweets, or using the hashtag #metoo. You may wonder why this has become such a widely used hashtag or sentence. Women, and some men, use these words to share their experiences of sexual assault and harassment. …
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"Me Too" The Movement Against Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment
Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment must end! If you’ve logged on to social media recently, you will have seen many women updating their statuses, sending tweets, or using the hashtag #metoo. You may wonder why this has become such a widely used hashtag or sentence. Women, and some men, use these words to share their experiences of sexual assault and harassment. …
What’s Rape Culture? How Does It Affect Women’s Safety?
Rape culture is affecting the safety of women and girls and must end. Do you know what rape culture is? Many have probably seen instances of this in day to day life, but don’t recognize it. Rape culture is defined as, “an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence is normalized and excused in the media and popular …
What's Rape Culture? How Does It Affect Women's Safety?
Rape culture is affecting the safety of women and girls and must end. Do you know what rape culture is? Many have probably seen instances of this in day to day life, but don’t recognize it. Rape culture is defined as, “an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence is normalized and excused in the media and popular …
Objectification and Sexism in Bollywood – The Bollywood Diva Song
Soon the viral video ‘The Bollywood Diva Song’ starring Kangana Ranaut was released, the video gained widespread attention for a number of different reasons. And one of them was the highlighting of the rampant sexism and objectification in Bollywood. Let’s discuss this in the context of the video briefly. The whole mock dance number shows the stereotypical way in which female …
Visibly Invisible: India’s Human Trafficking Victims
Human Trafficking in India produces invisible victims that hide in plain sight! As I was strolling down Calcutta’s streets, I stumbled upon the above graffiti. Usually, a typical Calcutta graffiti is about a political organisation. Comically, a few centimetres away from one political graffiti, is that of an opposing political group. So naturally, in the sea of politics, my eyes caught sight …
Visibly Invisible: India's Human Trafficking Victims
Human Trafficking in India produces invisible victims that hide in plain sight! As I was strolling down Calcutta’s streets, I stumbled upon the above graffiti. Usually, a typical Calcutta graffiti is about a political organisation. Comically, a few centimetres away from one political graffiti, is that of an opposing political group. So naturally, in the sea of politics, my eyes caught sight …
Campus Safety – Back to School & Back to Safety
Students need better access to resources to improve campus safety! Campus safety is an issue that people of all genders and ages on campus should consider. Many college students recently started classes. Returning to classes means that students have to consider their safety once again. Because campus safety is an issue that affects everyone, campuses everywhere should place more importance …
Campus Safety – Back to School & Back to Safety
Students need better access to resources to improve campus safety! Campus safety is an issue that people of all genders and ages on campus should consider. Many college students recently started classes. Returning to classes means that students have to consider their safety once again. Because campus safety is an issue that affects everyone, campuses everywhere should place more importance …
#AintNoCinderella – Exposing the patriarchal mindset against women
What is the #AintnoCinderella hashtag? The hashtag became viral in early August due to an online victim-shaming incident in which BJP politician Ramveer Bhatti blamed a victim of assault – Varnika Kundu – for an ordeal in which she was chased by two men and almost kidnapped. After posting her ordeal, Bhatti found it necessary to comment that Ms. Kundu …