Not Just a ‘Kink’, Here’s The Feminist Side of BDSM!

Pop culture can be both a positive and negative influence on public perception — and in the case of BDSM, it has been the latter. In the wake of (the baffling) success of the 50 Shades of Grey series, the act of BDSM, of sexual kinks, has…

‘Earn 500 Pounds A Year’: What Virginia Woolf Had To Say About Women Making Money

“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself,” said Virginia Woolf, the observant English novelist who was…

The Big Bang Theory Is An Epic Failure, At Least When It Comes To Challenging Stereotypes

Hollywood sitcoms are all the rage in India. And not without good reason. They have brought to the comfort of our living rooms the carefully packaged “American dream”, which is…

How Bollywood’s Representation Of Transgender People Is Downright Horrifying

As an Indian kid, and a keen lover of popular culture, growing up in the late 1990s and 2000s was a perplexing time — because the pop culture I consumed gave me some warped ideas in terms of gender…

How These 90s Sitcoms Disrupted The Patriarchal Family Structure

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Television has always found interesting way to push the envelope when it comes to depicting socially constructed identities. And one of the ways it does this is by imagining…

You Might Have Loved These ‘Funny’ Movies, But They Are Actually Pretty Fucked Up

Often, we don’t spare a second thought to the things we choose to laugh at, especially when it comes to mainstream visual media. There are so many “comedies” that, in the name of raking in…

What Went Wrong When The Men In These Bollywood Movies Tried To Explain Feminism

Bollywood, the second largest film industry in the world, has always had a dodgy history with its depiction of women. Its female characters have been often one-dimensional, stereotypical…

Marital Blues: How Indian Men Are Also Pressured Into Getting Married

India’s respectable cultural tradition of revering elders has several shortcomings. The most personal way in which Indians experience this is when it comes to marriage. Both men and women lack agency when it…

Back in the 90s: How ‘Gilmore Girls’ Broke Stereotypes And Redefined Female Bonding

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Only ’90s kids remember the ‘90s.

A meme that won’t quit, and with good reason.