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What Drives Periodic Episodes of Collective Fury Against Rape

, and Noopur Tiwari

August 20, 2024

Sports

The Problem of Transvestigation in Competitive Sports

, and Avali

August 5, 2024

Online Violence

Backlash by Design

Digital Platforms Keep Enabling Attacks on Liberatory and Feminist Content. What Do We Make of It?

, and Prakriti Bhowmick

February 10, 2026

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Online Violence

Backlash by Design

, and Prakriti Bhowmick

February 10, 2026

Anti-Casteism

What Drives Periodic Episodes of Collective Fury Against Rape

, and Noopur Tiwari

August 20, 2024

Sports

The Problem of Transvestigation in Competitive Sports

, and Avali

August 5, 2024

Olympics

The Olympics Are 'Celebration Capitalism' with a Colonialist Core

, and Noopur Tiwari

July 27, 2024

The Olympics Are 'Celebration Capitalism' with a Colonialist Core

The Key to Understanding Non-Binary Identity

, and Avali

March 18, 2024

The Key to Understanding Non-Binary Identity

Uttarakhand’s Policing of Live-In Relationships: A Closer Look

, and Akshita Prasad

March 6, 2024

Uttarakhand’s Policing of Live-In Relationships: A Closer Look

Culture

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Anti-Caste

Unmasking the Cultural Facade of Caste Supremacy

, and Charumathi

January 9, 2024

Films

Nine Films That Will Deepen Your Understanding of the Palestinian Resistance

, and Sudeshna Rana , and Monica Narula , and Noopur Tiwari

December 18, 2023

Culture

Billion Dollar Barbie: Ten Feminist Questions Answered

, and Noopur Tiwari

August 4, 2023

Review

The Power: Whose Dystopia?

, and Pragya Bhagat

May 26, 2023

Bodily Autonomy

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Academia

Is Wearing a Bikini a Civil Wrong? An Indian University Thinks So

, and Smashboard Admin

August 16, 2022

Bodily Autonomy

The Female Gaze Is Not about Women Objectifying Men

, and Smashboard Admin

August 3, 2022

Reproductive Rights

Reproductive justice is under direct threat in the US. Are things better in India?

, and Smashboard Admin

June 28, 2022

Asexuality

Being Asexual in a Country Where Sex Is Taboo

, and Saachi Gupta

November 20, 2021

Books

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Books

South Asian Novels to Add to Your Bookshelf

, and Mahika Dhar

August 24, 2023

Books

Fifteen Books That Will Help You Understand Autism Better

, and Soumya Mishra

February 8, 2023

Intersectionality

Four Essential Anzaldua Concepts That Inspire Intersectional Feminists of Colour

, and Sudeshna Rana

January 21, 2023

Mental Health

Ten Books for Healing Trauma

, and Smashboard Admin

August 4, 2022

Technology

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Technology

The Musk Problem: a Mega-Rich Troll Thinks He Knows What Free Speech is All About

, and Smashboard Admin

May 3, 2022

Technology

What Lies behind the Feminist Façade of Period Tracking Apps?

, and Yogita Suresh

October 19, 2021

Technofeminism

The History of Digital Technology Is Entwined With Sex Work

, and Oishorjyo

April 16, 2021

Technology

How Online Exam Surveillance Exposes Students to Predatory Proctors and Heightened Anxiety

, and Mythily Nair

February 16, 2021

Sexuality

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Decoloniality

Undoing the Colonial Gaze: How Gender & Sexuality Shifted in British India

, and Sindhu Rajasekaran

January 28, 2023

LGBTQIA+

The False Binary of Nature and Nurture: Shifting Narratives in the Queer Galaxy

, and Suvrita

September 21, 2021

Sexuality

The Internalised Bias in the Bisexual Experience

, and Usri Basistha

June 30, 2021

Bodily Autonomy

Raising Women's Minimum Marriage Age Is A Harmful Patriarchal Non-solution To Some Real Problems

, and Akshi Singh

January 15, 2021

Politics

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Identity

President Murmu: Caste & Political Representation

, and Smashboard Admin

July 27, 2022

Political Power

Women Politicians in India are Promoting Rape Culture With Impunity

, and Smashboard Admin

April 21, 2022

Opinion

Why Gandhi Is No Longer Relevant for Many Indians

, and Aravind

July 20, 2021

Activism

Why We March (and You Should Too)

, and Sanjana Pegu

June 29, 2021

Health

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Health

Breaking the Silence on Gynaecological Violence

, and Smashboard Admin

November 25, 2022

Autism

What It Feels Like to Be Neurodivergent

, and Soumya Mishra

November 23, 2022

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Is a Health Crisis, Not a Cosmetic Crisis

, and Smashboard Admin

October 25, 2021

Health

Gynaecologist Clinics Are Patriarchal Spaces and That Needs to Change

, and Kirti Wadhwa

October 22, 2021

Shift-Focus

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Celebrity

How Misogyny Shapes the Narratives around Celebrity Deaths

, and Sudeshna Rana

August 23, 2022

Culture

Time Out: Punctuality Is Not a Virtue but a Privilege Only a Few Can Afford

, and Isha Adhikari

February 3, 2022

Satire

How to Master the Art of Flâneuring

, and Muskan (empty)

August 15, 2021

Mental Health

Grief Is like an Ocean

, and Nyla Saldanha

June 15, 2021

LGBTQIA+

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LGBTQIA+

Navigating Intimacy and Abuse in Queer Relationships

, and Meena

March 13, 2023

Queer Affirming

International Non-Binary People's Day

, and Smashboard Admin

July 14, 2022

Six students painting a rainbow on a wall.

Queering Education

What to Say to People Who Say Teaching Children about Queerness Is Harmful?

, and Smashboard Admin

June 10, 2022

Queer Rights

Conversion Therapy Is Cruel and It Needs to End

, and Smashboard Admin

December 17, 2021

Law

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Intersex Rights

Indian Courts Must Understand What Being Intersex Really Means

, and Atreyo Banerjee , and Shardha Rajam

March 15, 2022

Incarceration

Justice Is a Long Road for India’s Undertrial Prisoners

, and Akshi Singh

November 30, 2021

Sex

Deception and Sexual Consent

, and Shardha Rajam

September 29, 2021

Comic

Saying No To Death Penalty- A Feminist Primer

, and Smashboard Admin

July 28, 2020

Activism

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Activism

What Kind of Feminists Are Not Supporting Palestine?

, and Noopur Tiwari

November 27, 2023

Activism

Protest Hair and Its Power as a Political Tool

, and Smashboard Admin

September 29, 2022

Public Spaces

How Women’s Dissenting Abilities Are Impeded by Lack of Access to Public Spaces

, and Priyanka Joshi

November 23, 2021

Climate Change

More Feminists Must Be Allowed to Lead Climate Action

, and Smashboard Admin

September 25, 2021

Video

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Video

Manipur's Women Torch Bearers

, and Smashboard Admin

July 15, 2022

Video Archives

Special: Messages for International Women's Day, 2021

, and Smashboard Admin

March 8, 2021

Video

Dalit Voices (Episodes 1-15)

, and Smashboard Admin

October 28, 2020

Editors' Picks

Satire

Moon Landing Revellers Threatened Me with Rape, but I Won’t Let Them Make the Rules

, and Shreya Bansal

November 24, 2023

Culture

The Gold Digger Myth

, and Smashboard Admin

July 22, 2022

Surveillance

The Cost of Safety. Surveillance Will Not Keep Women Safe

, and Radhika Radhakrishnan

January 14, 2021