In April 2018, news of the the sexual violence committed against Asifa Bano, an 8 year old child from Kathua … More
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Pallavi Khare: Gender, Art and Sexuality: Artistic Practices of Subversion
Introduction The present course seeks to examine different genealogies for thinking about “art,” paying specific attention to how feminist, queer, … More
Radhika Radhakrishnan: Feminist Perspectives on the Social Media Construction of Artificial Intelligence
In 2016, Microsoft released a machine-learning Twitter chat-bot, named ‘her’ Tay, and gave ‘her’ the personality of an 18- to … More
Radhika Radhakrishnan: Unpocketable: The Great Clothing Gender Divide
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Kavya Chandel: Not so Innocent: A look into how Disney films portray gender
The name ‘Disney’ invokes colourful and innocent images of mickey mouse or Cinderella or more recently, the ice princess Elsa. … More
Vanita Ganesh: Looking at Comedy and Performance Through a Gender Lens
Comedy can be an entry point to understanding human behaviour, and to see the way contemporary socio-political ethos is understood … More