The Epidemic Religious minorities in Pakistan have been targeted in various ways through social, economic, and legal means. Often the
...being bigger than average and weighing more meant that for most of my life people, friends, relatives, strangers, everyone felt they had a free pass to comment on my body, on how I should be trying to lose weight, how I should go about doing so, what I should eat, how much, and when. I was so used to it, I began to expect it.
Hi, I’m your regular, everyday feminist. I’m the one who makes you only occasional uncomfortable by reminding you that several
Sexual pleasure, or sex, holds political power. It is often the power that men hold over women, that the abled hold over those with disabilities, that cis-gendered, straight individuals hold over members of the LGBTQA community. In supposedly personal spaces, conversations about their sexuality and the need for sexual pleasure are repressed which makes the violation of their sexual rights easier and more likely.
I use it all the time, my friends do, strangers from the internet I empathize with do. The hashtag ‘menaretrash’ is always a few tempting keys away when trying to sum up the exhausting effects of everyday patriarchy
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights calls for an elimination of discrimination upon the bases of sex, however for long the question of whether human rights are gender equal or whether the concept of human rights is gender-biased and/or gender-blind has been the subject of debate
Amidst tensions over the Kashoggi killing, the Saudi government-appointed princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud as its first female ambassador
Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s protagonist nervously paces around her room, being driven mad by the woman hiding behind the yellow wallpaper
The proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments has jumped from a little over 11% in 1997 to
Perhaps accidentally or perhaps following the derivative historic pattern of a need to enlighten the East, Feminist thought and struggle