In the coastal villages of Odisha, in eastern India, women do not work on betel vineyards due to an age-old menstruation taboo. But some women are rebelling. What does it take to fight against the society?
- Romita Saluja
As artists like Taylor Swift, Stormzy and Fred Again grace our shores, psychologist and Flow State Space founder Rashida Dungarwalla reflects on one of her core passions: the psychology of music.
- Rashida Dungarwalla
Would you be able to cope with having the energy for sex only five days a month?
- Simran Pasricha
I’d often try to stay out of the sun, with the conscious intention of ‘not getting darker’. It’s taken years of unlearning this.
- Alicia Vrajlal
Endometriosis is a brutal, chronic illness affecting 1 in 9 women. Editor and author Gina Rushton explores the power of anger over self-abnegation along the fractured journey to finding adequate treatment options in Australia.
- Gina Rushton
Outside of healthcare, Indian women living with HIV/AIDS continue to fight against bias and routine discrimination. Their healing and hope comes through collective resistance against a society that sees them as impure.
- Jaishree Kumar
It’s clear that people across the country continue to have unhealthy love of sun tanning – which causes premature ageing, irreparable skin damage, changes to DNA and even death from skin cancer.
- Missing Perspectives
Let’s be honest, the typical messaging out there about the holidays on billboards, cards and shopping centre banners may not feel aligned with what your lived experience felt like in reality.
- Rashida Dungarwalla
Keeping pregnancies a secret for the first trimester is still considered the social norm, but perhaps it doesn't have to always be this way.
- Mie Kayser Jensen
Earlier this year, Melbourne-based journalist Simran Pasricha jumped on the chance to complete her Yoga teacher training in India. She was unnerved to find that the course was predominantly filled with white students, many of whom even grumbled at the need to learn Sanskrit as part of their training. Here, she explores the effects of colonisation on her journey with Yoga.
- Simran Pasricha