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TW: references to violence against women
‘A woman should have been allowed to walk home.’
On March 3rd, Sarah Everard disappeared in London. A week later, her remains were found and a police officer was charged with kidnapping and murdering her. This terrible act happened as the UK and the world marked International Women’s Day and the world is still not a safe place for women.
This story is a tragedy. A young woman was snatched off from the street and murdered by a policeman, a person in authority who is…
The Broken Hearts Gallery follows a young twenty-something gallery assistant, Lucy (Geraldine Viswanathan) who gets dumped by her boyfriend, Max (Utkarsh Ambudkar) and fired from her job on the same night. She drunkenly gets into a stranger’s car, mistaking it for her Lyft and meets Nick (Dacre Montgomery), a hotel developer, who is charmed by Lucy and drops her off at her home. Weeks later, they meet again, and Nick is struggling to keep his dream boutique hotel afloat while Lucy is jobless, broken-hearted and convinces him to curate an exhibition where people can leave their memorabilia from past relationships.
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This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
TW: This article contains details of rape, sexual assault, and suicide
In February, former Liberal Party political staffer Brittany Higgins alleged she was raped by a male colleague inside a government minister’s office in March 2019. Soon after, several more allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against political staffers and politicians inside the Parliament House in Australia. Further rape allegations were made when an anonymous letter was sent to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other Senate members detailing an alleged rape of a teenager in 1988. After these allegations of sexual misconduct…
This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
After the senseless killings of Geroge Floyd and Breonna Taylor last year, an uproar surged on social media. An online movement began to post information and resources on how to help Black people and communities. The power of social media spread not only in America but also in Asia, Europe, and Africa.
To show support and solidarity to the murders of Black people in America, people all around the world posted black squares. But what exactly happened when these black squares were posted? …
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TW: This article contains details of rape and sexual assault of a minor
“There’s so much misinformation. There’s so much obfuscation and so many lies. I’ve been subjected to every kind of doubt, every kind of scrutiny and every kind of humiliation over this. In the last 20 years, he was able to run amok, while I was growing up. And I was coping with this… through sleepless nights and panic attacks because of one man. For the longest time, I’ve been trying to set the record straight. …
Amazon Prime’s Undone is a visually stunning show that deals with complex themes of spirituality, religion and quantum entanglement. It also explores a woman’s trauma, mental health and experiences, and dealing with death. The world of Undone is quite different from anything that has ever been seen before. The show uses an animation technique called rotoscoping, where the actors are filmed on set and animators trace over the live footage.
The show revolves around Alma (Rosa Salazar) who lives a mundane life, fighting with her sister, Becca (Angelique Cabral) and mother, Camila (Constance Marie). Her life is pretty much the…
This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
Trigger warnings: details of sexual assault, rape, and death
The notion that a woman’s sexuality and autonomy should ‘belong’ to a man is what lays the groundwork of a patriarchal society. Men tend to experience an illusion of control in a patriarchal society. This mentality is not a generic trait that men possess but rather a belief that they are control society. Therefore, men believe they are entitled to women. These notions of male dominance can be extended to religion and culture. …
I wrote this essay on Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ during my final year of undergraduate studies. Last year, I decided to edit and publish it on Medium.
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel is about a concierge named, Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes) who gets framed for the murder of his 84-year-old lover, dowager Madame D. (Tilda Swinton). Together, Gustave and his lobby boy, protege and friend, Zero (Tony Revolori) embark on a quest for fortune and to prove Monsieur Gustave’s innocence. Anderson is known for his symmetrical frames, visual ornamentation, novelistic chapter headings, the persuasive sense of…
This article was originally published in the Women’s Republic.
TW: rape, sexual assault, child abuse
Last year, cases of sexual assault and child abuse increased in the middle of a global pandemic. Protests were held in the capital, and campaigns demanded the State to make immediate changes to bills and policies, to help sexual assault victims and survivors. It is extremely disappointing when systems are corrupt and work in the favor of helping the perpetrator. This is a cultural norm, so why does society deny the existence of rape culture? What happens when people assume that rape culture started recently…
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When talking about the different birth control methods, you would immediately think of condoms, IUDs, and the most famous one — the pill. But these were not the methods that were used when birth control was first introduced. In many countries, there were a lot of strange and possibly dangerous types of birth control methods. The traditional methods are now outdated and abandoned. The evolution of birth control methods did not start with the pill, and they were only introduced only recently. …
