This event remembered and celebrated the publication of Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World Women, published in 1988 by Sheba Feminist Press,

Held in Prague from 25–28 June, the biannual ECAS event was an excellent conference: well-organised, collegial and with a welcome range of artistic

Right to ‘practice our sexuality’: Remembering a leaflet on police violence against sexual minorities in India

By Sreenanti Banerjee

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In the year 2000, a leaflet was issued during a public campaign against police atrocities directed towards sexual minorities in

Report on a Meeting of ‘Women-Centered Women’: Notes on the National Conference on Women’s Movement (1994)

By Sreenanti Banerjee

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The fifth National Conference on Women’s Movement in India took place on 23-26 January 1994, in Tirupati, a

Right to Life, Dignity and the Welfare-Related Rights of Homosexual Relationships in India: Notes on a Letter on Sexual Preference

By Sreenanti Banerjee

In the year 1994, the Indian lawyer and legal consultant, Madhu Mehra, published a letter entitled ‘Sexual

[Cover page of ‘First National Conference of Sex Workers’, downloaded from the Feminist Law Archives (http://feministlawarchives.pldindia.org)] [1]

The Sex

1. The Event

On the 4^th of September 1987, Roop Kanwar (1969-1987), an Indian Rajput woman, was compelled to immolate herself in the village

This blog is a summary of a forthcoming encyclopedia entry titled ‘Postcolonial Feminism and Welfare Reform.’ It explores how postcolonial feminist scholarship has shaped, responded to, and interrogated reforms aimed at addressing