Conversations with my mother
From Dona Flor and her two Husbands 14th March. 2024 I was brought up with this belief system that soulmates come from a romantic...
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Asmita Sen
Apr 7, 20236 min read
Navigating Mental Health as a 20-something Indian Woman
“ Source: A BRAVE FACE Masks, a charcoal drawing by Alexandra Kelso, grapples with the feeling of trying to act like everything is fine...
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Asmita Sen
Sep 2, 20211 min read
Pop Art: The First Queer Art Movement
Pop Art first emerged in 1950s London before taking its roots in France, West Germany, the United States and even the Soviet Union. These...
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Asmita Sen
Jun 25, 20212 min read
Being Dalit and Transgender: Explaining Intersectional Oppression
Dalit Transgenders are at the intersection of caste and diverse interpretations of gender, and are always the last people who are given...
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Asmita Sen
May 14, 20213 min read
Gaslighting Women's Issues (Day-to-day Sexism) in Brown Households
I am extending upon a dialogue here when I say that sexism still exists in all the ways that we can imagine. I can be presumptuous and...
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Asmita Sen
May 6, 20212 min read
Why is today's Art more GenderFluid?
Gender fluidity is a term that is used as an identification for people who identify as different genders over time. Since there is...
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Asmita Sen
Apr 22, 20212 min read
Womyn-born Womyn-only: Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival alias MWMF or MichFest, was a feminist women's music festival. This fest was held every year without...
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Asmita Sen
Mar 22, 20212 min read
Media sells False Dreams of Femininity: Risha
"I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget" - Erin...
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Asmita Sen
Mar 7, 20213 min read
What 'Femininity' means to me: Devanshi Arya
I did an interview with a couple of friends and acquaintances to launch the series on expressing femininity and masculinity (hyper,...
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Asmita Sen
Feb 23, 20213 min read
Iconic Figures who bent and broke Gender Norms: Androgyny
David Bowie It is a given fact that Bowie was the father of androgyny in the 1970s. He changed the menswear and the monotonous fashion...
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Asmita Sen
Dec 5, 20203 min read
Expressing Personalities through Queer Art
As I have been deeply invested in exploring the ropes of sexuality, gender and expressions, it has become more than just an academic...
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Asmita Sen
Nov 16, 20202 min read
Kamala Harris: Representing Intersectionality
Sen. Kamala Harris achieved a boundless title of Vice Presidentship. While we all have perspectives about her ideologies and scope for...
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Asmita Sen
Oct 11, 20204 min read
Reconceptualising Nudity in Art
Controversies around nude expressions in "Art Forms" have been around for a while. There are artists who like to indulge themselves...
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Asmita Sen
Oct 3, 20205 min read
Screams Within Screens: The Immaculate Potential Behind Social Media Activism
While social media is a new form of weaponry as it can make or break the nation. We must also know the flip side to the invention of...
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Asmita Sen
Sep 28, 20203 min read
Six Female Artists: "My Perspective on Male Gaze"
Leah Schrager, an artist and an ex-model decided to curate an exhibition named "The Mayle Gaze" . These pieces are largely nudes and free...
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Asmita Sen
Sep 25, 20205 min read
Confronting Male Gaze: How Important is It?
What is Male Gaze: According to the simple feminist theory, male gaze refers to having a point of view for everyone/everything from a...
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Asmita Sen
Sep 24, 20201 min read
Body Burden
There are days when I stop to wonder, Is this body too much of a burden? The face, the marks, the scars, The layers and layers of skin,...
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Asmita Sen
Sep 21, 20204 min read
Dating While You're Queer
What is the dating scene like for the Queer Community in India? The generation of today is always in a turmoil when it comes to stating...
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Asmita Sen
Sep 19, 20204 min read
The Female Orgasm: Let me Rain on my Parade
The Inevitable Taboo: Female orgasms have been a taboo for a while predominantly in the South-Asian parts of the world. The consequences...
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Asmita Sen
Sep 17, 20203 min read
Marilyn Monroe: Dumb blonde or an epitome of inspiration?
August 5, 1952: Monroe is found dead in her apartment in Los Angeles. She is (was) naked and vulnerable, lying on her own bed. But how...
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