This is a guest post by Deepti. She just finished her Masters in communication. A connoisseur of good and meaningful writing, she spends half her day glued to the thousand feeds on her Google Reader. She spends the other half, nurturing an unhealthy obsession for American crime procedurals, cinema, and dissing popular culture. She researches [...]
All posts tagged Sexism
On Taking The Bus
Posted by Jaded on March 28, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/on-taking-the-bus/
The Landscape Ahead: Who Will Identify The Individual?
Identity—the very essence of who we are and how we interact with others—is in the middle of a period of extraordinary tumult. The Internet and a host of new communications technologies have transformed the concept of identity and redefined our relationships to businesses, governments and constantly churning networks of friends and peers. Growing numbers of digital natives [...]
Posted by sexgenderbody on December 22, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/the-landscape-ahead-who-will-identify-the-individual/
Tales This Tongue Didn’t Twist
There is a story my father likes to tell when people ask him what his eldest daughter wants to do ‘with her life’. It seems that I was 13 and determined when I’d interrupted his important business call to say, “When I grow up, I’ll be a famous Lady Author” with hands on my hips [...]
Posted by Jaded on December 14, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/tales-this-tongue-didnt-twist/
Trigger Warning?
I was recently asked to provide trigger warnings for some images and links we posted on the SexGenderBody Tumblr and Twitter feeds. This is a topic that I have struggled with since we started the site. We don’t get many requests for this, but when we do – I take stock of what we are doing, how [...]
Posted by sexgenderbody on December 2, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/trigger-warning/
UnVeiling Hued Bodies
This weekend over a family dinner, I was seated at the ‘women’s table’ as usual, wondering when did I morph from child to woman, old enough to be the invisible ear for middle-aged Ladies who need to vent out their LadyEmotions through the forms of humour and snark. As the conversation turned to ungrateful husbands [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 2, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/unveiling-hued-bodies/