How Social Media Is Romanticizing Child Marriage in Indonesia

Posted on April 26, 2019
Child marriage, Early age marriage, Featured, Indonesia, online campaigns, social media
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Child marriage / Indonesia

Last year in July, Indonesian netizens were shocked by an Instagram post that showed a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy posing together as a bride and groom. The photo was taken at a village in South Kalimantan province of Indonesia. The two teenagers were married after they met at a night market. Two months later, in…

Unapologetically Angry!

by Mehreen Fatima

Posted on April 24, 2019
Anger, emotions, Featured, Mental Health, Self love, South Asia
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Emotions

You perhaps have heard the joke about the crash of an aeroplane when the only conscious and available captain on board who happened to be a female – out of her rage and fury – chose not to communicate and then under her presumed notion that she would not be understood by the men sitting…

Mental Health in South Asia

by Amelie Maddage

Posted on April 18, 2019
Featured, Mental Health, Self care, Self love, South Asia
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Health / Sri Lanka

Staring at the railway tracks and wondering what if I just push myself forward onto the oncoming train, was a frequent thought I used to have at the age of 18. It didn’t matter that I got into the university I wanted to or that in many ways I was blessed and lucky to have…

Menstruation: Taboos, Myths and Shame

by Shabdita Pyakurel

Posted on April 12, 2019
Chhaupadi, Featured, Menstruation, Myths, Nepal, Taboos
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Nepal

I have always asked myself is bleeding a shame? And does it really make me impure? Sometimes I do wonder; what if we [women] are really impure? Then I see all the amazing women around me and I tell myself that there cannot be anything purest than them. I wish I had known this when I…

The more you refuse to hear our voice – The louder we will sing

by Surangika Jayarathne

Posted on April 9, 2019
Featured, Homosexuality, Human Rights, International Human Rights Agenda, LGBTQ rights
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Sri Lanka / Uncategorized

“The higher you build your barriers The taller I become The farther you take my rights away The faster I will run You can deny me You can decide to turn your face away No matter, cos there’s Something inside so strong” Human rights are universal and egalitarian. Thus, each and every human being is…

Why we need to redefine what being a woman and strong is in South Asian societies

by Ruwandi

Posted on April 1, 2019
Featured, Fitness, Health, Weight lifting, Women health
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Health / Sri Lanka

Women are weak and exist to be subdued by men. These are the things I learned as a kid as I saw my mother get emotionally and physically abused by my father. Both of them were university graduates. My dad was a businessman while my mum was a housewife so she could take care of…

Nepal for today’s women

by Sandhya Nepal

Posted on March 19, 2019
Featured, Feminism movement in Nepal, Nepal, Women
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Nepal

For a country that has a legacy of oppressing women, a country where women are treated based on patronizing culture and a country where religion considers women nothing but subordinate to men, a country where women are sent out of their houses during one of their most natural, life-defining monthly cycle; things are changing – though…

A Woman’s Place is in the House

by Dea Safira Basori

Posted on March 13, 2019
Domestic abuse, Featured, Home, VAWG, violence, Women rights
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Domestic abuse / Indonesia

Being a woman in South Asia and South East Asian, we all have heard that a woman’s place is in the house, while men work outside the house. Women stay at their house while men roam around the streets to look for other women to be kept in their cages. They collect women as trophies…

Round rotis over Write-up

by Saadia Ahmed

Posted on February 27, 2019
Blogger, Featured, Feminist, Pakistan, Round roti, Unpaid work, Urban Housewife, Working Women
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Pakistan

Curled in a blue printed duvet on a floor bed, struggling with the body aches that couple with heart’s, trying to figure if the evening tea sauce pans lying in my all white Australian kitchen need an instant wash, here I am. The window across the road shows the rapidly moving city of Sydney. It’s…

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Unapologetically Angry!

Mental Health in South Asia

Menstruation: Taboos, Myths and Shame

The more you refuse to hear our voice – The louder we will sing

Why we need to redefine what being a woman and strong is in South Asian societies

Nepal for today’s women

A Woman’s Place is in the House

Round rotis over Write-up

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