Afghan Women’s Writing Project: Stop Violence Against Women
By Seeta Dear Readers, From November 25 through December 10, AWWP is joining with the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign. Living in Afghanistan, I have witnessed many kinds of violence during my lifetime. Afghan men always say that they respect women more than men in Western countries. This may be true, but [...]
Tale From a Male: The Accidental Rapist
By Hugo Schwyzer Note: As with many articles about sexual violence, particularly those that include anecdotes, this may prove triggering for some. “Sometimes I say ‘yes’ when I’d rather say ‘no.’” It’s been nearly 25 years, but I can still remember the beautiful Berkeley fall afternoon when I heard those shattering words. Katie and I [...]
Don’t Call Me, ‘Eve’
As the Delhi run of the video van comes to a close, in which the Bell Bajao campaign addressed street sexual harassment among other forms of grave violence against women, Eesha Pandit looks at just how widespread and harmful the “mere” act of “eve teasing” is.
When it happened to me…
No, today was not the first time I was ever insulted by a man in public. It was the first time though I ever bumped someone’s car unintentionally and unfortunately in the last five years that I’ve been driving on the angry male dominated Delhi roads, the first time when someone made me feel sorry [...]
No, but really, #whatareyoulookingat ?
Having grown up in New York, I’ve always been a big fan of subway systems and metros. In fact, I’ve been taking the New York City subway by myself since I was just twelve years old, mainly because I like the independence of it. There’s something great about being able to get yourself around on [...]
The Scar Faced Girl
Redefining romance, this blogger writes about the traumatic past of his girlfriend who was incidentally an intern in the New Delhi office of Breakthrough. There’s no better example than in this long story that support system is all you need to get through the trauma of abuse.
औरते आवाज़ उठाओ!
Ratnesh Kumar writes from BBAU University, Lucknow.
“The Weather Couldn’t Bring Down the Spirits against Domestic Violence”
Amrita travelled with the video van as a Breakthrough volunteer during the video van movement in New Delhi. In this blog, she shares her experience with how the van is received by women in college and general public in other parts of Delhi.
Who am I?
It was 13th Feb 1999, I could not sleep the whole night, kept turning from one side to other in the bed. Early morning the labor pain became unbearable, my mother in law admitted me to the nearest hospital. After number of internal examinations, medicines and injections I was put under the knife. When I [...]
Band …Baaja…Aur Bell Bajao!
Catch the coverage of the hugely successful run of the video van in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
