I have been wanting to write this for the last one year. We (SWAN) are gearing up to release a video to remember or recall the last one year since the lockdown. This post isn’t going to be about any issues that would matter. This is my experience of being part of SWAN, a volunteer group forContinue reading “A year since SWAN”
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Roundtable: A discussion with main political parties in TN on Environmental Justice
27 March 2020. A roundtable discussion was organised by Young people for politics and the Chennai climate action group. Both are small and relatively new youth-led collectives. CCAG works on Environment justice and YPP works to encourage youth in politics and I got an opportunity to moderate it. An invitation was sent to all theContinue reading “Roundtable: A discussion with main political parties in TN on Environmental Justice”
Why must we challenge our families for our Democracy to Thrive?
Sethu and I contributed to Feminism in India for their call on October 2020, #Childhood and Relationship With Parents and Family. Picture credits:FII “Family as a sacred space” is a myth in a deeply patriarchal country like India. Here, the conventionally heteronormative family many times functions as a toxic space employing abuse, manipulation, guilt, andContinue reading “Why must we challenge our families for our Democracy to Thrive?”
ONE YEAR!
Part II- Reflections based on the responses from parents The workshops and research were done in a school in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, a small semi-rural town known for its temples. C.P. Vidya Mandir matriculation school is a low-income private school and the gender sensitization programme was administered to 620 students while 418 students participatedContinue reading “ONE YEAR!”
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