Questioning Society’s long history of Villainizing Women

Amanda Knox knows all too well what it’s like to be made into a villain. The 30-year-old writer-activist'...

Picture Books and Coming-of-age Stories

As research on transgender and gender nonconforming children and youth becomes increasingly prevalent in litera...

Indian Theatre Puts CORO's 'Right To Pee' Campaign Centre Stage

CORO, a well-established NGO in the city has been slowly campaigning to easy and safe access to toilets for women in the city, and it set to host a play in Mumbai regarding...

Jaago Re for Gender Change

Tata Tea's latest advertising campaign shows the inequality we learn in our daily lives, and calls for a change.

The series of videos, part of the Jaago Re...

The Stage and the Stree

Theatre has been one of the longest-practiced forms of art in India- from age-old bards, to soliloquizing protagonists, to dance-dramas, it has always been a crucial part o...

Melinda Gates: How I Raised A Feminist Son

When my son Rory was born, I spent a lot of time imagining what this little person would be like when he grew up. Now, as he turns 18, I have my answer. Rory is compassiona...

London's Drag Kings Challenge The Everyday Performance Of Gender

"Pecs" is a group of performers exploring gender and sexuality through drag. "Unless you fuck in a vacuum, sex is a gendered experience," says Pecs, a London-based drag kin...

I'm A Woman And A Breadwinner In The Relationship

Growing up, my mom had one basic tenet when it came to marriage, dating, and feminism: “Jamie, make your own money so you never have to ask a man for the things you w...

Japan’s Gender-Bending History

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In th...