Akashleena struggles with words of the world and world of words. She invites you to sit, read, play, think, sense, feel, sing and twirl around with words. Writing is not just about words, is it? Neither is writing about signification. It is about those pauses, those silences, those commas, semi colons, those unsaid waste paper baskets, …
Tanvi Akhauri is a writer and journalist currently associated with for SheThePeople. In this article, she envisions the pandemic as a terrible paradox, one that has coaxed future fortitude from irreparable grief. She asks some interesting questions about the potential of the global pandemic /pause in providing impetus to the human community needs to start …
Thank you for your enthusiastic contributions towards Login Gender’s ‘Socially Distant: The Pandemic Writing Project.’ We received some very poignant and thought provoking entries and have shortlisted five of them to be featured on our website. We will be featuring one shortlisted entry, every week. Now, we invite you to please read and share these …
Written by Akashleena Beyond the confines of the syllabus and curricular structures, Education to begin with, teaches us to question the prescribed or given, learn together and move ahead. Classrooms are the spaces where art of teaching-learning becomes a creative pursuit and the mere act of reading, thinking, feeling and reflecting becomes a political act …
This new section on WISCOMP’s Log-in Gender is envisioned as an Adda, a space for meeting, meaningful conversations, dialogic engagement and critical reflections. Adding ‘engendering’ or ‘feminist’ to Adda is an attempt to reclaim this space and empty it for questioning, reflecting, deconstructing and doing gender. Through this new section, we hope to engage in …
Shamsia Hassani’s journey as a graffiti artist began with her exploration of the ways in which art could be put to use to cover up the physical reminders of war. The destroyed walls and buildings acted as her canvas, making her art accessible to ordinary people for whom museum trips or exhibitions is a rarity. Despite …
Fatimah Hossaini is an Afghan artist, photographer, curator, exhibitioner and a fashion photographer in Afghanistan. She is the founder of Mastooraat Organisation which works for women, art, youth and peace. Through her photographs, she pushes the boundaries on cultural norms in the country. Art for her is a medium through which she can convey the beauty of …
Aryana Sayeed, one of Afghanistan’s most well known singers, braves death threats and endures scrutiny every time she returns to her birthplace to perform. She is not only a popular singer, but is also an advocate of women’s rights and a voice for the hardships that Afghan women undergo. Despite the threat to her life, …
For Rada Akbar, art is the medium through which she expresses her own thoughts and the grim reality surrounding her life living as a woman in Afghanistan. Starting her career in visual arts as a painter, she now uses photography to narrate stories and document the life of Afghan people, specifically women. If for the Taliban …
Film maker and activist, Sahraa Karimi was the first woman to head Afghan Film back in 2019. She is also a director, and her debut feature, Hava, Maryam, Ayesha, a women-centric project, was the first fully Afghan production in a long time. The movie was filmed entirely in Kabul in Afghanistan and the cast consisted of …
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