Gender

The Global Feminist Pitch is back to support feminists from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Middle East and (South) Eastern Europe. This year we are looking for ten feminists who will write on the topic of feminist mobilisation in their region. Apply now!

 Life account of Manipuri indigenous transgender Shamans. Podcast by Santa Khurai.

Increase in domestic violence, lay-offs, care responsibilities, restrictions on domestic and international movement, economic insecurities, psychological burdens - these are just a few of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Asia in the last two years. The gendered nature of COVID-19 impacts is obvious and has sparked large feminist responses in the region.

References of trans masculine identities in Indian traditional and mythological stories, though not as recurrent compared with trans feminine identities, did exist

This article looks at the datafication of gender and sexual minorities in different manners, both by the Indian state and the private sector. In this article, the author explores how the state continues to control gender and sexual minorities even in the digital world by turning them into data using archaic understanding of gender and sexuality This article attempts to understand the reinforcement of the state's patriarchal values using a paternalistic approach to the welfare system and the private sector’s tricks to piggyback on the state.

Thoko Madonko from our Cape Town office speaks to Marlise Richter about inequity in access to covid vaccine in global south and gendered aspects of vaccine equity.

Nature nurtures the mankind. However, when mankind tries to fiddle with nature, it faces the wrath of the latter. Loktak Lake in the state of Manipur is a glaring example of how human intervention can damage a natural setting and also adversely affect those depending on it. Loktak, measuring about 235 square kilometres, is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India. This article is an attempt to capture the lives of the fisherwomen of Loktak and their continuous struggle for survival amidst the wave of aggressive lopsided developmental projects.

Dr. Rima Ghosh speaks to Shalini Yog Shah about transgender people’s ordeals during the pandemic and what needs to be done.

Women in India’s Northeastern state of Assam wield a great degree of influence in the local politics. But their participation in the frontline has been time and again taken for granted. This was evident in the recent assembly elections in the state. The BJP-led Mitrajot (alliance of friends) came back to power with the votes of more than a half of women voters. Women were also in the frontline of the anti-government protests against the new citizenship law. But both the protests and the polls have left them shortchanged.

Interview with Dr. Suchitra Dalvie by Shalini Yog Shah