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“He Threatened To Halt My Studies And Malign Me”: Why It Took Me Years To...
By Anonymous: Note: This post is a part of Love Matters and Youth Ki Awaaz’s #BearNoMore blogathon. Due to a lack of knowledge, my conceptualization of love was unhealthy. I had an over-romantic idea...
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“Just A Little While Longer”: Why I Am Still Putting Up With An Abusive Partner
By Anonymous: Note: As a part of Love Matters and Youth Ki Awaaz's ongoing #BearNoMore campaign on raising awareness about Intimate Partner Violence, we carried out a blogathon inviting you to share...
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Men As Victims Of Emotional Abuse In A Relationship: This Is My Story
By Anonymous: Note: As a part of Love Matters and Youth Ki Awaaz’s ongoing #BearNoMore campaign on raising awareness about Intimate Partner Violence, we carried out a blogathon inviting you to share...
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“It’s Just A Slap, Get Over It”: Four Years Of Abuse
By Anonymous: Note: As a part of Love Matters and Youth Ki Awaaz’s ongoing #BearNoMore campaign on raising awareness about Intimate Partner Violence, we carried out a blogathon inviting you to share...
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When Pictures Say It Best: How Comics Are Helping Fight The Stigma Around...
By Shambhavi Saxena: Comics strike a perfect balance between visuals and texts. And, since the 70s, they’ve become an important medium for talking about complex personal and political issues,...
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Why A 35% Wage Gap May Be The Reason India Prefers Sons
By Pallavi Ghosh: We live in a time where opportunities for women have, no doubt, increased. And opinions about women not going out, studying, working, voting and so on are likely to meet more...
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Abortion May Be A Difficult Choice, But The Choice Is Mine
By Anonymous: I was 27, married, and the mother of one and half year old twin daughters when I realized I was pregnant. I also realized that I was not ready to have another child. Just not yet....
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10 Things Working Women Are Advised To Do, But Men Are Not
By Pallavi Ghosh: Like many others, it was right after my post-graduation that the hunt for a suitable job began for me. One thing led to another and I got my first work opportunity as a research...
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Identifying As Queer: What Could Have Saved Me From Bullying And Abuse 10...
By Dhrubo Jyoti: I remember I was about eight when I first embarrassed my parents by wearing a full-length nightie of my mother’s, in front of the help – “He’s a big boy, what will people say,” was...
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‘Sex-Ed': The Most ‘Fun’ Thing In School That Didn’t Really Happen
By Gaurav Sharma: "Ma’am, do we have to make the diagram on page 144?" asked a boy as the other tried controlling their laughter. It was the usual diagram of female reproductive organs. It didn’t...
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The Most Excruciating Part Of My Abortions Was The Stigma And Judgement
By Anonymous: As someone who has undergone multiple abortions, what was possibly the most excruciating part of the process was the experience I had with the healthcare system, which was terrible and...
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From Flash Mobs To Collaborative Art: 5 Unique Ways To #AbortTheStigma Around...
By Shambhavi Saxena: [envoke_twitter_link]Stigma is quiet. It looks like lowered eyes. It feels like a knot in the stomach[/envoke_twitter_link]. It is all the weight of unspoken rules and taunts and...
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10 Reasons Why You Should Email PM Modi About Your Future, Right Now
By Asmita Sarkar: Our leaders, mouth words like, “everybody is equal, everybody’s rights matter. And everybody deserves health, education, livelihood, security among other facilities” at global...
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7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Be Ashamed Or Guilty About Wanting Or Having An Abortion
By Shambhavi Saxena: The reasons we furnish to discourage a woman from having an abortion are endless, but in all honesty, they aren’t very good reasons. Based on abstract and oppressive ideas of...
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5 Reasons Why It’s Better To Be A Woman In Kerala Than Haryana
By Pallavi Ghosh: Kerala and Haryana are placed at two extreme ends while discussing the child sex ratio in India- Kerala being a space of respite with a consistently higher child sex ratio (964...
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No One’s Decision But Mine
Abortion is an important part of sexual and reproductive health and rights. The decision should lie entirely with the woman, without any shame or stigma of being judged for it. The post No One’s...
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Would You Work In A Village For 1 Year If Given The Chance? Meet Someone Who Did
By Asmita Sarkar: Shashank, an apprentice with PRADAN and a former student at Indian Institute of Forest Management, learned not only about failure but also about how to move on from it. Being a...
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Sit At Home? Hell No: The Amazing Story Of Aakriti And The Women Whose Lives...
By Anugraha Hadke: 'Development' is the new fancy term our leaders like to throw around, giving us big dreams of smart cities, unbeatable technology and a digital India. But at the end of the day,...
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[Y]Ral: What If Apollo 11 Turned Back Before Reaching The Moon?
By Ankita Mukhopadhyay: If you were cooking up a meal, would you like to leave it halfway? If you had to sing a song, would you leave it mid-way? Then why should we leave mid-way the global goal to...
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Why You MUST Take The Great Indian Love And Sex Survey! #OpenUp
By Artika Raj for Youth Ki Awaaz: The one thing that we as a nation do not do, just refuse to, is to actually sit down and chat, have a heart to heart with the big ‘ol elephant in our drawing room....
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