Category: Gender and Society
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Beyond Masculine and Feminine
I have a problem with the words “masculine” and “feminine“. Masculine sounds like man. Feminine sounds like woman. The words carry the body inside them before they carry any meaning. This is likely why feminism gets misread so often. People hear equality of genders and somehow receive female chauvinism instead. The word itself points at…
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Why “Gender Neutral” Programmes Fail in Practice
A Lived Experience In 2020, I travelled to Rajasthan as a communications intern to document an NGO’s field project with remote tribal communities. It was my first time on the ground meeting beneficiaries. In one of the documentaries, we interviewed a woman from the Kalbelia tribe near Banswara. Since our languages did not match, we…