"The seeds of strife had been watered, The careful mirage of love shattered."
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Silent in the Voices
Spoken word poetry on internalisation of gendered expectations and how one copes with them.
Roshni’s Tryst with Economic Independence and Alienation
What is “choice”? What is “resistance”? These are not simple questions. Most incidents of gender violence are not black and white. Roshni's story highlights one of the more nuanced aspects of gender violence, and the dilemma of reaching conclusions and resolutions.
Pain. Scribble. Pain. (Part 1)
"Aabroo was told that her family had been kidnapped by Al-Qaeda and, in all possibility, murdered."
A Dream, Crushed
The normativity of violence against women that circumscribes not just this case, but the entire society in general, is eerily familiar; so much, that at first glance it doesn’t shock.
You
It all starts when you’re born; your first breath isn’t yours.
A Strange Honour
“She was fourteen, she was raped repeatedly by a twenty four year old, she was pregnant. Just fourteen.”
Messenger of God, Rape my Daughter
A mother brought a rapist home, locked him in a room with her daughter and asked him to rape her.
A Sword Above
To protect her family from harm or death, she endured rape, violence and blackmail...
The Unwanted
"Reshma did not have space for her sister, not even on the rubbish heap."
