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A Pandemic Year for Women: For a therapist, creating safe spaces for others meant finding one of her own
Safvana Khalid • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: For a community library and its members, what is lost and found in a lockdown
Purnima Rao • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: In an unprecedented crisis, rethinking an art practice, and ways of living
Aranyani Bhargav • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: For those with a history of confinement, the lockdown was 'better' than what came before
Maumil Mehraj • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: Lessons for a rural healthcare startup in Bihar during the COVID-19 crisis
Snehal Joshi • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: For an expectant mother, a fraught but life-affirming experience
Madhuri Mohindar • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
Women's Day 2021: Women write about their experiences in an unprecedented year of the pandemic
Fp Staff • 4 years agoWhile the coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns have been especially hard on women, there are also many stories of resilience, courage and hope that have emerged in these times.
A Pandemic Year for Women: Notes on negotiating the coronavirus crisis as a healthcare worker
Skanda • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
My grandmother fled from the horrors of Partition. What she couldn't outrun was the patriarchy
Urmi Bhattacheryya • 5 years agoIndia gained her Independence amid the violence of Partition. But did my 92-year-old grandmother ever win hers?
Noticing and note-taking with Shubhangi Singh
Kush Badhwar And Khanabadosh • 6 years agoThe anecdotes that emerge from Shubhangi Singh's process of note-taking explore a wider framework of female existence and operation in the public sphere