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Human Rights

Why I Don't Like Going To Bars As A Disabled Person?

From inaccessible bathrooms to weird looks, drinking with your friends at a pub isn't such a piece of cake. Since I started this column six months ago, I've written on sex ...

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Bollywood

India Clears 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' For Restricted Release

An appeals board of India's film censor authority has cleared an award-winning Hindi language film for limited release. Lipstick Under My Burkha was earlier refused certifi...

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Festivals

Film On India's 93-Years-Old-Sexologist To Premiere At Hot Docs Festival

Three movies based in India and featuring an eclectic cast of characters, from a 93-year-old sexologist to a six-year-old reincarnated as a rinpoche, will feature in North ...

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Hollywood

Watch The MTV Soap Opera That Is Secretly Teaching Sex Ed

When Emmanuel Ikubese first saw the show MTV Shuga, he was a university student and an aspiring actor. Like many fans, he was hooked. There's a lot to like about the show: ...

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Health

Women Still Do Most Of The Work In Preventing Pregnancy

When it comes to gender inequality, the work vs. free time gap is one of the most alarming. According to the World Economic Forum, the amount of extra work women do —...

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Hollywood

Girls Was A Great Show About Failure

Failure is the bread and butter of HBO's Girls. Other TV programs about women and friendship— Broad City, Sex and the City, even Orange Is the New Black—tend to...

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Gender

A Photoseries Calls Out Patriarchy, Likens Oppression To Ancient Witch Hunts.

Earlier this month, Saint Petersburg-born and India-based conceptual photographer Victoria Krundysheva uploaded a photo series depicting Indian women as powerful witches.Kr...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Train - First Class Delivery For Women's Rights At Belfast's MAC

The issue of women's reproductive rights in 1970s Ireland doesn't immediately suggest 'musical comedy' - yet this is the path taken in The Train with delightful ease. After...

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Alternative Entertainment

Woman Crowdsources What People Feel About Their Bodies, Turns It Into Art Work

Mumbai-based artist Indu Harikumar has been working on a crowdsourced art project that focuses on how people see their bodies. Harikumar told BuzzFeed that she got the idea...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Could Bring Feminism To The Masses. Why Doesn't It?

A few days before the release of 2016 Bollywood hit “Dangal” (“Wrestling Bout”), which is based on the true story of two medal-winning Indian female...

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