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#MeToo: Why Women Refuse to Believe Other Women

India’s #MeToo moment has been built entirely on the back and labour of its women. But the most dispiriting part has been the lack of support from some outliers – women who refuse to believe the testimonies of survivors.

Ayushi Murli April 27, 2016

Gender

#MeToo: How Does the World Judge the Wives, Daughters, and Sisters of Sexual Harassers?

As scores of working women accuse, name and shame their predators, quickly turning them into poster boys of hate for all of womankind, what happens to the wives, the sisters and the daughters?

Alka Shukla April 26, 2016

Pop Culture

Big Little Lies and the Violence in Women’s Lives

Golden Globe-winner Big Little Lies starts as a show about women of privilege, but pivots into one about the interior lives of women whose lives are invariably marked by violence.

Sharan Saikumar April 18, 2016

Gender

Kink Gone Wrong: The Big BDSM Blindspot that Enables Abuse

Hollywood star Armie Hammer’s alleged cannibalism fetish caused another meme fest on Twitter, but the accusations of assault made by multiple women should make us question why we are so afraid to call out abuse, when it is masquerading as kink.

Nalini Nair April 8, 2016

Pop Culture

Big Little Lies is Back! It Continues to Ask Difficult Questions about Sexual Abuse & Trauma

Big Little Lies came out months before the #MeToo storm, shattering many of our assumptions about what victims and abusers look like. It’s only fitting that with its second season, it helps answer some of the questions left on the shore once the storm receded.

Sonali Kokra March 31, 2016

First Person

My Father Sexually Abused Me as a Child. But I Still Can’t Hate Him

I was 12 when my father first touched me inappropriately. It took me reading about Lolita, more than a decade later, inciting and luring her stepfather into intimacy to realise that my first experience of any form of sexual pleasure came from my own father.

Vaishnavi March 30, 2016

Gender

The Silent Suffering of Male Sex Abuse Survivors

I was surprised by the pervasiveness of the #MeToo confessionals and the women who spoke about sexual assault. And then I began to hear the experiences of my male friends who had been similarly violated.