Drawing on the work of the organisation she founded in 1992, the Dalit Women’s Society, Lovely Stephen discusses some of the most pressing challenges faced by the Dalit women living in colonies.
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Tag: Speaking Otherwise series
Ala’s new article series, ‘Speaking Otherwise’, will feature translations from the iconic magazines and newsletters produced by Kerala’s movement spaces that have lasting resonance in the present day. Through the series, we hope to ignite renewed interest in these archives and take them to a broader readership.
The Perpetrator of Sexual Violence and the Construction of Masculinity: An Introduction
In the second piece in Ala’s ‘Speaking Otherwise’ translation series, we translate a piece from the historic Sanghaditha feminist magazine where a psychology expert asks: How does our society and its norms around masculinity produce perpetrators of sexual violence?
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The Masculinist Spaces of the Judiciary
Ala kicks off its new translation series, ‘Speaking Otherwise’, with a 2013 piece from the feminist magazine, Sanghaditha. Here, two women legal professionals draw on their experiences defending domestic violence survivors in Kerala’s lower courts to provide a grounded perspective of a foundational question that feminists raise: is the law a tool of change, or a tool for enforcing the status quo?
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