Conversations with my mother
From Dona Flor and her two Husbands 14th March. 2024 I was brought up with this belief system that soulmates come from a romantic...
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Asmita Sen
- Apr 7, 2023
- 6 min
Navigating Mental Health as a 20-something Indian Woman
“ Source: A BRAVE FACE Masks, a charcoal drawing by Alexandra Kelso, grapples with the feeling of trying to act like everything is fine...
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Asmita Sen
- Sep 2, 2021
- 1 min
Pop Art: The First Queer Art Movement
Pop Art first emerged in 1950s London before taking its roots in France, West Germany, the United States and even the Soviet Union. These...
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Asmita Sen
- Jun 25, 2021
- 2 min
Being Dalit and Transgender: Explaining Intersectional Oppression
Dalit Transgenders are at the intersection of caste and diverse interpretations of gender, and are always the last people who are given...
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Asmita Sen
- May 14, 2021
- 3 min
Gaslighting Women's Issues (Day-to-day Sexism) in Brown Households
I am extending upon a dialogue here when I say that sexism still exists in all the ways that we can imagine. I can be presumptuous and...
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Asmita Sen
- May 6, 2021
- 2 min
Why is today's Art more GenderFluid?
Gender fluidity is a term that is used as an identification for people who identify as different genders over time. Since there is...
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Asmita Sen
- Apr 22, 2021
- 2 min
Womyn-born Womyn-only: Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival alias MWMF or MichFest, was a feminist women's music festival. This fest was held every year without...
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Asmita Sen
- Mar 22, 2021
- 2 min
Media sells False Dreams of Femininity: Risha
"I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget" - Erin...
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Asmita Sen
- Mar 7, 2021
- 3 min
What 'Femininity' means to me: Devanshi Arya
I did an interview with a couple of friends and acquaintances to launch the series on expressing femininity and masculinity (hyper,...
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Asmita Sen
- Feb 23, 2021
- 3 min
Iconic Figures who bent and broke Gender Norms: Androgyny
David Bowie It is a given fact that Bowie was the father of androgyny in the 1970s. He changed the menswear and the monotonous fashion...
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Asmita Sen
- Dec 5, 2020
- 3 min
Expressing Personalities through Queer Art
As I have been deeply invested in exploring the ropes of sexuality, gender and expressions, it has become more than just an academic...
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Asmita Sen
- Nov 16, 2020
- 2 min
Kamala Harris: Representing Intersectionality
Sen. Kamala Harris achieved a boundless title of Vice Presidentship. While we all have perspectives about her ideologies and scope for...
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Asmita Sen
- Oct 11, 2020
- 4 min
Reconceptualising Nudity in Art
Controversies around nude expressions in "Art Forms" have been around for a while. There are artists who like to indulge themselves...
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Asmita Sen
- Oct 3, 2020
- 5 min
Screams Within Screens: The Immaculate Potential Behind Social Media Activism
While social media is a new form of weaponry as it can make or break the nation. We must also know the flip side to the invention of...
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Asmita Sen
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Six Female Artists: "My Perspective on Male Gaze"
Leah Schrager, an artist and an ex-model decided to curate an exhibition named "The Mayle Gaze" . These pieces are largely nudes and free...
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Asmita Sen
- Sep 25, 2020
- 5 min
Confronting Male Gaze: How Important is It?
What is Male Gaze: According to the simple feminist theory, male gaze refers to having a point of view for everyone/everything from a...
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Asmita Sen
- Sep 24, 2020
- 1 min
Body Burden
There are days when I stop to wonder, Is this body too much of a burden? The face, the marks, the scars, The layers and layers of skin,...
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Asmita Sen
- Sep 21, 2020
- 4 min
Dating While You're Queer
What is the dating scene like for the Queer Community in India? The generation of today is always in a turmoil when it comes to stating...
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Asmita Sen
- Sep 19, 2020
- 4 min
The Female Orgasm: Let me Rain on my Parade
The Inevitable Taboo: Female orgasms have been a taboo for a while predominantly in the South-Asian parts of the world. The consequences...
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Asmita Sen
- Sep 17, 2020
- 3 min
Marilyn Monroe: Dumb blonde or an epitome of inspiration?
August 5, 1952: Monroe is found dead in her apartment in Los Angeles. She is (was) naked and vulnerable, lying on her own bed. But how...
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