Voices
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Journalist Recounts Harrowing Ordeal Of Trying To Lodge Domestic Violence Complaint With Delhi Police
Jinal Bhatt | August 2, 2021When the #MeToo wave swept India, there were several counter arguments, the worst of which wasn’t the #NotAllMen one....
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Trolls Are Calling Manika Batra, Mirabai Chanu’s Wins ‘Real Feminism’ To Mock Actresses. This Is ’Real’ Misogyny And ‘Real’ Stupid.
Jinal Bhatt | July 27, 2021*facepalm*
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Supreme Court Staffer Who Accused Former CJI Gogoi Of Sexual Harassment Was A Potential Pegasus Surveillance Target
Jinal Bhatt | July 19, 2021This is supremely problematic.
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Can We Please Stop Policing Women For What They Wear When They Go To Meet Men Or Do Things That Don’t Have Specific Dress Code?
Jinal Bhatt | June 29, 2021Especially when there is no dress code!
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A Deloitte Study Says Indian Women Are More Overworked, Underpaid, Stressed Than Their Global Counterparts. So Let’s Do Something About It Na?
Jinal Bhatt | May 20, 2021Can workplace please step up and help?
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Supermodel Naomi Campbell Welcomes First Child At 50. So Can We Please Stop Bothering Women About Ticking Biological Clocks?
Jinal Bhatt | May 19, 2021Throw that biological clock outta the window.
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Businessman Harsh Goenka’s Tweet On Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos’ Divorces And Alimony Is Sexist, And Twitter’s Calling It Out
Jinal Bhatt | May 18, 2021Twitter calls misogyny!
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The Kapil Sharma Show’s Sumona Chakravarti Opened Up About Living With Endometriosis. We Need More Women To Talk About This
Jinal Bhatt | May 18, 2021It was hard for her, but she did it anyway!
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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Compared India’s Vaccine Drive To Arranged Marriage. Dr. Harsh Vardhan Assured We’ll Find Perfect Match. Okay Then!
Jinal Bhatt | May 17, 2021It belittles the issues with the vaccination process.
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Women Are More Likely To Test Parenting Skills With Pets Before Having A Baby, Says Survey. And It’s Valuable Experience!
Jinal Bhatt | May 12, 2021Fur babies before hooman babies!
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Janhvi Kapoor Posts Another Cover Photo Amid The Second Wave, Says It Was Pre-Committed. Nonsense
Anjali Agarwal | May 5, 2021Why not help with Covid leads instead?
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Reddit Thread List Things That Make Workplaces Hostile For Women And How They Can Be Made More Inclusive. Yes To All!
Jinal Bhatt | May 3, 2021AC temps that work for everyone, please?
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Women Smile 62 Times A Day While Men Only Smile 8 Times, Discovers Study
Mansi Shah | April 29, 2021Okay, confession time. There was a time in my teens that I was particularly taken by the phrase ‘I...
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Soni Razdan Slammed The Now Suspended Decision Of Uttarakhand Govt To Allow Char Dham Yatra
Jinal Bhatt | April 29, 2021People who go should be blamed too!
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UNICEF Study Suggests Indian Ads Further Gender Stereotypes, Hopes Data Helps To Create More Gender Sensitive Ads In The Future
Jinal Bhatt | April 23, 2021We're not surprised!
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Ladies, Instagram Has New Tools To Filter Abusive DM Requests And Keep Abusers And Creeps At Bay
Jinal Bhatt | April 22, 2021This is such good timing!
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Pooja Bedi Shared A Tone Deaf Video From Goa That Has Us And Twitter Asking “Pooja What Is This COVIDIOT Behaviour?
Jinal Bhatt | April 16, 2021*facepalm*
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Men, Here’s How NOT To Approach Women On Social Media. It’s Creepy!
Jinal Bhatt | April 16, 2021No unsolicited video calls and snaps, please!
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I’ll Be Swiping Left On Dating Matches With ‘Apolitical’ In Their Bio. Here’s Why It’s An Astute Choice
Jinal Bhatt | April 13, 2021Apolitical? Boy, bye!
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The Politics, Gimmicks And Genuine Efforts Towards Making Housework Paid. Will It Work?
Jinal Bhatt | April 7, 2021One small step for LinkedIn, one giant step for unpaid labour?
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22-Year-Old Myanmar Beauty Queen Han Lay Is Speaking Out Against The Country’s Alleged Military Atrocities And Going Viral For It
Jinal Bhatt | April 6, 2021Her impassioned speech has gone viral.
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Dia Mirza Was Asked Why She Kept Her Pregnancy A Secret Before Marriage. Why Does It Matter?
Anjali Agarwal | April 5, 2021The Actress Spells It Out For Trolls
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Reddit Thread Asking People To Share Their Body’s Rare Characteristics Is So Chock Full Of Body Positivity
Jinal Bhatt | April 5, 2021The Internet can be so wonderful sometimes!
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New Zealand Passes Legislation To Grant Bereavement Leave For Miscarriages And Stillbirths
Jinal Bhatt | March 25, 2021For the parent, as well as their partner.
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Chef Pooja Dhingraa Couldn’t Rent An Apartment Because She’s A Single Woman. Bombay Begums Sure Got The City’s Misogynist Landlords Right!
Jinal Bhatt | March 25, 2021Ugh, can we be done with this already?
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Having Children Is A Much Harder Decision For Women Than For Men. This Thread Reveals The Reality
Jinal Bhatt | March 24, 2021This Twitter thread is essential reading!
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Women Rip Misogyny A New One With #RippedJeansTwitter After Uttarakhand CM’s Remark. We Call That Sending A Message!
Jinal Bhatt | March 18, 2021How's that for sending a message?
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TIME Magazine Puts Indian Women Farmers Leading The Farmer Protests On Its International Cover
Jinal Bhatt | March 6, 2021Well deserved!
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Polish Teen Set Up A Fake Cosmetics Store Online That Helps Women With This Disturbing Problem
Jinal Bhatt | March 5, 2021What a brilliant idea!
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What Women Really Want: Is Men Doing These Things On Women’s Day To Become True Female Allies
Jinal Bhatt | March 4, 2021Men, you listening?
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Women Priests, Qazis Are Officiating At Indian Weddings And That’s Another Gender Ceiling We’re Shattering!
Jinal Bhatt | March 4, 2021Smash that patriarchy, swaaaha!
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No Matter What Kareena and Saif Name Their Child, Trolls Will Troll. And That’s Just Sad And Pathetic.
Jinal Bhatt | February 22, 2021What's in a name? Apparently, offence.
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Uttarakhand Is Getting Its First All-Woman Anti-Terrorism Squad That Will Secure Mahakhumbh 2021. They Sound Badass!
Jinal Bhatt | February 18, 2021They're being trained in Krav Maga!
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Teejay Sidhu Called Out Comments Suggesting A Male Child Completes A Family. Why Are We Still Obsessed With Gender?
Jinal Bhatt | February 18, 2021Preach, Teejay!
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Can We Talk About How The Big Day On Netflix Promotes Sexist Stereotypes About Women?
Jinal Bhatt | February 18, 2021Women are conditioned since childhood for this!
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Verdict In MJ Akbar Defamation Case Against Priya Ramani Deferred. Why Justice Delayed In #MeToo Cases Is Detrimental To The Movement
Jinal Bhatt | February 11, 2021It discourages women to take legal recourse.
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MP Mahua Moitra’s Explosive Speech In Parliament Calls Out The Handling Of A Sexual Harassment Case
Jinal Bhatt | February 10, 2021That was one helluva speech!
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Reddit Thread Has Women Recounting The First Time They Were Sexualised. It Begins As Early As 3-4 YO, And It Never Stops….
Jinal Bhatt | February 8, 2021Trigger Warning: This is a difficult read.
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Anushka Sharma Implements Waste Segregation On The Sets Of Her Production House. So Someone In Bollywood Does Care
Anjali Agarwal | February 8, 2021She is the first producer to do so
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Twitter Deleted Some Of Kangana Ranaut’s Tweets. But Looking At How She Insulted Rihanna, Is Deleting Enough?
Jinal Bhatt | February 4, 2021She's not going to mend her ways, is she?
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Trolls Call Rihanna, Mia Khalifa Supporting Farmer Protests Names Like W*ores And R*ndi, Threaten Them With Rape. It’s A New Low
Jinal Bhatt | February 3, 2021Yeah that's not a valid argument, trolls.
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We’re A Feminist Platform And We Think The Myntra Logo Controversy Is Utter BS. What A Waste Of Activism!
Jinal Bhatt | February 1, 2021Someone took offence? Must be Monday.
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Women Domestic Workers In India Send Smriti Irani Postcards Demanding Workplaces Free From Sexual Harassment
Jinal Bhatt | January 27, 2021They're underrepresented in the #MeToo movement!
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“I Was Called A Sl*t”: 69-Year-Old Actress and Ex-Bigg Boss Contestant Trolled For ‘Sexy’ Photos. Sigh.
Jinal Bhatt | January 15, 2021What's age got to do with looking sexy?
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Twitter Slams Vogue For ‘Whitewashing’ Kamala Harris On Its Cover, Not Putting Enough Effort In Presenting Her
Jinal Bhatt | January 11, 2021Come on, Vogue. You could've done better!
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Farewell, 2020: The Perfect Poem To Send Off The Year That Shat On Us And Made Us Hoard Toilet Paper!
Jinal Bhatt | December 31, 2020We just flipped off 2020!
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Twitter User Points Out How ‘Women Mature Faster’ Is Used To Excuse Problematic Behaviour In Men. Twitter Concurs.
Jinal Bhatt | December 28, 2020This Twitter thread is quite on point!
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Survey Says 70% Women Who Took A Sabbatical Dropped Out Of The Workforce, 62% Blamed It On Organisation Culture
Jinal Bhatt | December 23, 2020And most of them blame it on their workplace culture.
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Study Says Sexism Still Rampant In Hollywood After #MeToo. Unfortunately, It’s The Same In Bollywood.
Jinal Bhatt | December 17, 2020What a colossal disappointment this has been.
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Paris City Hall Fined €90K For Hiring Too Many Women In Top Positions. But Don’t We Do That With Men All The Time?
Jinal Bhatt | December 16, 2020We're already scared of reverse sexism?