Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh broke all the rules of their times. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, in the state of Maharashtra, they began India’s first girls’
Queen (2013) Finding a good girl friend is amazing in itself, but finding one while you’re on a trip by yourself is even more amazing! Rani and Vijaylakshmi in the
I grew up in a small town where you can always find the neighbors, especially the aunties, in everybody’s business. I hated that in my hometown, everybody knows everybody and
In this article I am writing about a beautiful ‘Literary Liaison’ between two extremely illustrious Arab women writers—May Ziyadah and Malak Hifni Nasif— who not only challenged the norms of
Collective article by Anjali Chauhan and Khushbu Sharma “Female friendships are amongst the most enduring, intentional, and mutual relationships of our lives. They are safe spaces for us to be
What does solidarity at the workplace mean? It manifests itself sometimes in negative and unhealthy ways—whether it comes in the form of complaining about your workplace culture or bickering with
Collective piece by Bhoomika Ghaghada, Zahra Mansoor, and Juneida Abdul Jabber. I want to be happy for you. “Guess what??” Seema texted me. I picked my phone up from
Getting Away with Patriarchy First, tell your daughter to do all the dishes she scrubs, watch her dreams being washed away, soapy and smeary crushed, under the eyes of indifferent
How do women create little spaces for themselves? How do they care for each other? In trying to find answers to these questions from my own lived experience, I focus
While recently re-reading Vikram Seth’s magnum opus, A Suitable Boy, a letter exchange between the novel’s heroine, Lata and her best friend, Malati made me pause and smile. In the
The more I live the more I am convinced that what makes our friendships different from those of men, is how much we listen to each other. All of us—in
160 years ago on June 2nd, 1863, Harriet Tubman, along with 150 Black Union volunteers freed 750 enslaved people in the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina, U.S. More than
In March 2023, I was looking for cheap places to crash in Delhi, India. I needed to stay back for a couple of days after my parents returned to Nepal. Excitedly, I
“I came to nurture a great longing: I would learn to read and I would read a religious manuscript.” — Rashsundari Devi, Amar Jiban (translated from Bengali by Tanika Sarkar)
I rediscovered the essence of female kinship when my daughter was about nine months old. All cried out, body aching from sleeping in awkward positions to accommodate her slow suckling, mind tired by the perpetual tussle between responsibility, love, and self-care – I felt done.
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