This weeks #Sayftychat topic was Use of Technology For Women’s Safety. About the Guest: Elsa DSilva (@pinthecreep) from Safecity. Safecity is a platform that documents personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data …
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Sexual Harassment At Workplace
Sayfty successfully launched #sayftychat on June 1st, 2015. This is a weekly chat every Monday that explores topics related to women’s safety and preventing violence against women (#VAW). Each week we will have a new guest dicussing a new topic. The Red Elephant Foundation (@TheRedElphnt) is a Civilian Peace building Initiative that works through the key drivers of peace, namely, …
Role of Men in ending Violence Against Women
To end the year and close #sayftychat on a high note we invited guest Ravi Karkara from the UN women to discuss the “Role of Men in ending Violence Against Women” Ravi Karkara (@ravikarkara) is a trained social worker with commitment to advance human rights, participation, inclusion and gender equality, accountability and social justice. He serves as a Senior Adviser Strategic …
Abusive Relationships
November 25 – December 10 are the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence ( #16DaysActivism). To commemorate this week, we featured on #Sayftychat a discussion on “Abusive Relationships”. Our guest was Mr. Saurav Dutt Saurav is an author short-listed by +The Guardian and +Los Angeles Times and writer of ‘The Butterfly Room,’ a critically-acclaimed book dealing with abusive relationships based on true accounts …
Women in Sports
“Do you think Bartoli’s dad told her when she was little: You are never going to be a looker, you’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight?” Make special note of the words used. Those words belong to John Inverdale, a commentator who handled the commentary for the finals of the 2013 Wimbledon matches. Through …
Game of Thrones – A Tale Too Misogynist?
I’m not one to stomach scenes with a lot of violence in a visual medium. And so, when I watched Danaerys Targaryan eat a horse’s heart with Khal Drogo and their many other Dothraki counterparts watching on, I wanted to barf. It didn’t help that I was eating a particularly ingenious combination of cottage cheese and salsa. Nope. Never going …
Marital Rape – A Sordid Saga
“Marriage is a sacred institution – collaboration of two souls”. “Marriage is a bond of trust, respect and love”. We have heard of such beautiful quotes and sayings many a times, which describe the meaning of this devout institution – called marriage. But is the sanctity of marriage alive ? Marriage is a sacred institution but not a license to rape. Consent from both …
Origins of Patriarchy
Society is divided according to gender, among other factors. Gender as John Zerzan writes in his book, Patriarchy, Civilisation and the Origins of Gender, is not the same as the differences and distinctions between the sexes, but is rather a “cultural categorisation and ranking grounded in a sexual division of labour that may be the single cultural form of …
Hindi Cinema and Outrageous Depictions of Rape
Not many would remember but way back in 1996, Madhuri Dixit had done an immensely forgettable film called “Prem Granth.” The regressive tale of a rape survivor whose ordeal only begins with the incident, the movie would count as one of the most disgusting depictions of the already gruesome act and possible aftermath. From “Prem Granth” in the 90s to …
Sexual Harassment on Social Media
“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” We’ve all heard this adage, right? As children, adults recited this to us in response to the bullies we dealt with on the playground. But, here’s a hard truth: Words DO hurt and, in fact, inflict just as much (if not more) damage, with lasting consequences. In today’s modern …