Is Trauma Dumping A New Label For Women’s Emotional Expression Online? It is not a new problem because it is just a new term for a century-old societal habit of suppressing women’s vulnerability and labelling their feelings as a ‘burden’.

Too Good To Be True?: Fact Checking DIY Menstrual Masks Evidence from dermatology and science credits zero points to the benefits of menstrual masking and reiterates the potential harm in using menstrual blood as a healing face mask.

The Emotional Politics Of Digital Masculinity Acts of domination and ridicule become not only personal choices but performances that are spectacles of masculinity watched and applauded by thousands.

Will Conservative Feminism Not Ruin Everything? And Is It The Latest Trick In The ‘Patriarchy Playbook’ The core belief that conservative feminism holds is that men and women are different and thereby can never be equal.

Building Online, Battling Online: How AI Intensifies Gendered Digital Violence For Entrepreneurs The act of being visible online is not a question of choice for most women and queer digital entrepreneurs; it’s a necessity.

Gendered Impact Of Climate Change: Pushing Developmental Outcomes Backwards Agriculture in India feeds about 17.2% of the global population using only about 9% of the world’s arable land, and more than 56% of the total agricultural area is rainfed. Rainfed farming covers about 58% of the net sown…

Performing Care: Women And Digital Solidarity Trained in confidentiality and unbiased care, SRH counsellors are creating a cycle of women empowering women in the digital sphere.

The Internet Always Blames Her: How Women Are Punished Online For Standing Up Whenever a woman mourns publicly, she is almost always scrutinised online to the extent of cruelty.

Who Faces The Burden Of A ‘Risk’?: Women In A ‘Risk Society’ Ulrich Beck posited the centrality of risk in the modern society, particularly how they are shaped around the management and distribution of risks.

Decoding The Disturbing And Dehumanizing Language Of The Incel Community This deep-seated misogyny is most evident in the language used within the incel community.

Reason, Repent, Reform, Repeat: The Court And Judiciary’s Understanding Of A “Modern Woman” Instead of altering judicial reasoning according to how "modernised" women are, the court can challenge redundant assumptions, practice contextual reinterpretation of laws and take Justice's blindfold off.

AI Girlfriends, Masculinity And Emotional Capitalism There is a promise made by AI girlfriends that reality struggles to provide. It is a partner who is endlessly patient, instantly responsive, and incapable of pushing back.

Beyond Face Value: Adam Isaiah Green’s Critical Overview Of Aesthetic/Erotic Capital Rather than being a neutral or universally empowering tool, aesthetic/erotic capital further marginalises the women it is assumed to benefit.

Children At Risk In India’s POCSO Courts: When Safeguards Fail The POCSO Act mandates that the protection of children remains the first and foremost priority.

Cyber Abuse Compels Women And LGBTQIA+ To Be Silent And Eventually Offline: New Study On TFGBV The Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in India report aims to highlight and reflect overall patterns of digital gendered violence.

Rahul Gandhi’s Grave Vote Chori Allegations Shunned Without Investigation  The country has nothing to lose by investigating Gandhi’s allegations, but everything to lose by shunning them without regard for their potential truthfulness.

Rajkot Hospital Footage Leaked: Sexualisation Of Pregnancy And Lapses In Privacy Of Female Patients This is simply not a privacy breach but a horrid assault on dignity and trust at a place that should be one of the safest places in a woman’s life

Meet Naina Avtr: India’s First AI Influencer, And The Latest Face Of Digital Patriarchy In the age of Naina Avtr, feminism’s challenge is clear: to ensure that as we build our digital futures, we do not code our inequalities into permanence.

Restricted Access: Why ‘Fun’ Spaces Remain Out Of Reach For Women In India? If we truly aspire to an equal society, we must ensure that fun is not a luxury for a few but a right for all.

Yogmaya Neupane: Nepal’s First Feminist Revolutionary | #IndianWomenInHistory As a female ascetic, Yogmaya showed that women could step outside the domestic realm and wield power, thereby challenging the deeply rooted norms of the time.

How to Track Upcoming IPOs and Check IPO Allotment Status Effortlessly? Introduction Initial Public Offerings have always attracted attention, especially from retail investors hoping to secure strong listing gains or hold quality companies for the long term. But navigating IPOs isn’t just about…

Why Are Women Significantly More Likely To Be Diagnosed With An Autoimmune Disease? Understanding autoimmune diseases through a gendered lens can ensure that women don’t suffer for years before seeking medical care.

What Kiran Desai Puts In Her Box: Reading ‘The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny’ Kiran Desai’s 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' is a love story, a social observation and a historical reckoning.

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra—A Layered, Genre-Bending, Feminist Film Lokah qualifies as social commentary wrapped in superhero and horror themes, and in the best way possible.

Personality Rights: Protecting One’s Identity From The Misuse Of AI Many see the legal battles over personality rights by celebrities as ‘rich people’s image protection’, while common people continue to suffer every day.

Stitched Histories: Women, Textiles, And The Politics Of Memory Across time and place, women have turned to sewing to survive and share their stories, especially when they had no voice or space to ever be heard.

Why Instagram’s Sexuality Educators Are Tired: The Hidden Labour Behind Digital Care For sexuality educators on Instagram, the invisible labour of care work is layered with gendered roles, trolling, and censorship.

The Algorithm’s Tradwife: How Platform Capitalism Monetises Women’s Subordination In India The most modern form of technology is being used to recreate the oldest forms of oppression.

Unconditional Loyalty, Unchecked Hate: The Cost Of Tollywood’s Fan Culture Toxic fandom in Tollywood, has far-reaching consequences, creating a cult-like devotion where their idol becomes akin to a demigod.

Bad Girl Review: Not So Bad A Girl, Just Yet While the film is entertaining and well-made, it does make one wonder why Ramya is a bad girl at all.

The Double Disadvantage: How Disability Affects Women Differently   The women with disability face a double layer of exclusion; they are not excluded from mainstream, they are invisibilised.

Of Political Neglect And Feminist Failure: Why Every Humanitarian Crisis Is A Feminist Emergency To call every humanitarian crisis a feminist issue is not to dilute feminism; it is to restore its essence.

India’s 2025 World Cup Win: Smashing Cricket’s Masculinity Myth It is much more important to understand that these societal norms are not some scientific biological facts.

Seventeen Lakh Indians Died In 2022 Due To Air Pollution, Finds Lancet Report The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report found that over 1,718,000 people in the country died in 2022 due to exposure to fine particulate matter.

Disabling Comments As Forced Exit From Social Media: Protecting Mental Piece Or A Surrender To Online Abusers People who post themselves or their lives online carries a weight of risk to be judged, shamed and trolled.

Blood Diamond On Earth: The Price Paid By Congo For Its Mineral Legacy The Congo crisis is rooted in a complex web of corporate complicity, capitalism and surplus resource extraction in the post-colonial era.

The Impact of Domestic Burdens, Stress and Unmet Care Needs on Breast Cancer Survivors While women are expected to be lifelong caregivers, when they are ill themselves, their care needs often go unmet.

The Need For CSE: Sex Education Must Be In Curriculum From Younger Age Says Supreme Court For those not enrolled in formal education, sex remains an enigma until the very time that they are expected to perform it. 

Nüshu: The Silent Script Of Sisterhood Nüshu reminds us that history is not only a record of kings and their wars, but also about mothers and daughters sharing words in silence that the patriarchy created.

Taking Charge of Family Health: Why Women Should Know Their Insurance Options Women have traditionally been caregivers. And taking care of their family’s health has always been a top priority for them. In the modern era, taking care of one’s health also includes getting a good health insurance…

Beyond ‘The Train To Pakistan’: Khushwant Singh’s Partition Fiction Reduces Women As Objects The famous historical fiction provides a glimpse into the archetype of the typical male mindset, often plagued by racial sexist biases.

Susan Griffin: A Pioneer In Ecofeminism Susan Griffin, a writer, poet, and playwright, was a pioneer of ecofeminism whose work helped define the movement.

Baahubali: The Epic – A Film Still Plagued By Patriarchal Gaze, Misogyny And Bigotry Baahubali: The Epic was an opportunity to rewrite some of the critical errors of the previous two films and address serious issues regarding misogyny, the patriarchal gaze, and bigotry; yet the makers seem to be…

Who Gets To Protest: Unlayering The Gendered Burden Of Activism The gendered burden of activism very often falls upon women who carry various responsibilities to their own family.

Fragments Of The Feminine: Prehistory Beyond Patriarchal Narratives Whether in Austria, Turkey, or the caves of Bhimbetka, figures and markings refuse silence and ask us to listen beyond the empire of alphabet.

Rashid-un-Nisa: The Urdu Revolutionary Who Wrote To Change The Tide | #IndianWomenInHistory Rashid-un-Nisa was a woman who chose to live non-defiantly, going by her name.

When Caste Entered My Counselling Room: Confrontations Of A Savarna Practitioner For the purposes of clarity, I will say my journey as a Savarna mental health practitioner began a little over 2 years ago in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, as a counsellor to survivors of sexual abuse and gender-based…

‘I Am My Own Mistress’: Reading ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’ By Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd' gives a very nuanced exploration on the intersection of love, class, gender roles and rural life.

Gender, AI And Digital Violence: Mood Of The Month November 2025 To create discourse and shed an urgent light on gender, AI and digital violence, FII is looking for submissions throughout the month until the 25th of November 2025.

Shielding Power: India’s Privacy Laws And The Erosion Of Transparency The systematic weakening of the RTI Act, coupled with the climate of intimidation facing transparency activists, threatens to hollow out the very foundations of participatory democracy.