When we fail our children
No means NO. Not now means NO, I am tired means NO, I am not sure means NO, Maybe means NO, Silence means NO and ONLY YES MEANS YES!
Depression - the danger lurking within
As they say, depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to give up.
Women - the Married Refugees
Neither in birth, life nor in death does she gets a sense of belonging. She never belongs anywhere.
Natchathiram Nagargiradhu - Ambedkarite women are insulted
In the name of Dalit Cinema, Pa Ranjith should stop using Ambedkar for marketing purpose and it is a great insult to that great leader as well as to all Ambedkarite women who have been consistently fighting for the poor and oppressed.
Life of a girl, in the times of Covid
What keeps me going is the hope that I get to go to school at least one more precious day before I don’t have the chance to anymore.
My Amma!
As I venture through my adulthood, I realize how much I’m eternally grateful for you. I understand how difficult it is to juggle between work, and life.
Respectful birthing, gratitude and sustainable living
The respect, freedom and choice that I was given at birth made me realise the necessity of handling any relationship/situation in my life with the same love.
Friends of the alien
I don’t understand the Sinhala, Muslim or religious contradictions. But it was disappointing that there were people who didn’t even want to hear a chicken crow.
Letting my hair down
I’m often called a “boy,” and I think it’s meant to be an insult, but I do not associate my worth with the length of my hair any longer.
A Wish for a Father
Having grown as much as I have today, I can understand how hard he works to bring smiles to our faces. He doesn’t express much, but I know how much he loves me.
Is the idea of a tearful goodbye to a young woman the definition of a wedding?
The bride’s father walking his daughter down the aisle, isn’t it essentially the woman being handed around from a man to another?
Gendering work. Shall we?
Are we moving ahead-
From a world where success survived.
To a world where survival is success in itself.
