Gender Agenda newsletter: A Sunday afternoon nap
3 days, 11 hours ago

Gender Agenda newsletter: A Sunday afternoon nap

The Hindu  

Welcome to The Hindu’s newsletter that puts gender front and centre. In the best tradition of sisterhood, three of us will share the ‘work’, one every week, each from a different generation of women. A Sunday afternoon nap There is a set of three pictures in photographer Krithika Sriram’s exhibit Anbu Magal at the Chennai Photo Biennale, inaugurated this week, that makes people stop and peer. “Lesbianism is not ‘I don’t like men for lots of reasons so that must make me gay.’ It’s ‘I am exclusively sexually attracted to women’. Its freshness & sweet scent should be benefited from and used to perfume the air.” — Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, under whose regime women are penalised with harsh punishment for defying dress codes that include mandatorily wearing hijabs.

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Live Mint  

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Making India safer for women

Hindustan Times  

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