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Five-Year Recap of Project Stree: Empowering Women through Menstruation Education and Advocacy in Rural Gujarat
Five years ago, Juhi Patel and Ria Soni embarked on a mission to tackle menstrual health and hygiene in Gujarat, India. As...
Anuradha Krishnan
Jul 25, 20243 min read
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Celebrating South Asian Activists During Women’s History Month
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.” In honor of this motif, Project Stree is shining...
Krish Bhut
Mar 26, 20242 min read
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Family Annihilators in the South Asian Community: A Cry for Help
The rise of online dating after the turn of the century brought a concurrent surge of interest in true crime media, including...
Anjali Khatri
Feb 1, 20244 min read
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Diwali: Celebrating Tridevi's Multifaceted Femininity
This November, Hindus around the world will partake in Diwali, a five day festival of light which celebrates the triumph of good over...
Anjali Khatri
Nov 8, 20236 min read
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When the World Pays Attention to South Asians
Globalization impacts our lives on a daily basis. From technology to medicine, politics to music, and art to fashion, globalization has...
Nikhita Borkar
Aug 29, 20234 min read
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We Need to Talk About Transgender Healthcare
As much as society has made strides for LGBTQ+ rights, it has also regressed, considering the prevalence of violence, discrimination, and...
Nikhita Borkar
Jun 30, 20233 min read
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South Asians Can Rock Out Too
As a middle schooler circa 2007, one of my favorite after-school activities was flipping through music on my classmates’ iPods and MP3...
Anjali Khatri
Jun 14, 20234 min read
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Examining Caste Discrimination in America
In February, Seattle’s city council passed an ordinance to ban caste discrimination, the first city to do so outside South Asia. A 6 to 1...
Anjali Khatri
Apr 30, 20233 min read
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Five Ways to Support Muslims Observing Ramadan
Last week, over 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide began observing the holy month of Ramadan, where believers take on a waterless fast during...
Anjali Khatri
Mar 24, 20232 min read
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Black History Month: Celebrating Black-South Asian Solidarity
Students of U.S history may be familiar with Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to India in 1959 and his interest in Indian civil...
Anjali Khatri
Feb 12, 20234 min read
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Fielding Toxic Comments This Holiday Season
I am a member of a brown family that loves the holiday season. Although we are practicing Hindus, Christmas time has always been an...
Anjali Khatri
Dec 21, 20224 min read
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Four Diwali Traditions You Should Know
Now that the pandemic has somewhat abated, Hindus around the world are enthusiastically celebrating Diwali. Diwali lasts five days and...
Anjali Khatri
Oct 18, 20223 min read
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Three Reasons South Asian Women Relate to Jane Austen Heroines
As a teenager, I turned my nose up at female classmates that read and admired Jane Austen’s work. “Why would you read books that imply a...
Anjali Khatri
Sep 29, 20226 min read
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Badhaai Do: The Evolution of Queer Stories in Bollywood Cinema
I recently had the privilege of watching Harshavardhan Kulkarni’s Badhaai Do (2022), a comedy about a gay man and a lesbian who decide to...
Anjali Khatri
Jun 20, 20226 min read
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Raising Dalit Voices: Bama Faustina Soosairaj
The caste system in India remains prevalent today despite claims by some upper castes that casteism and untouchability no longer exist....
Krish Bhut
May 24, 20223 min read
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A Dangerous Precedent: Overturning Roe Could Strip Millions of Americans of Their Basic Civil Rights
On Monday, May 2, Politico released a draft majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization authored by Justice Samuel...
Kate Kramer
May 10, 20223 min read
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Ms. Marvel: The Hero That South Asians Deserve
When I first saw a copy of Ms. Marvel at my local bookstore in 2015, my jaw dropped. The cover art portrayed a South Asian woman with a...
Anjali Khatri
Apr 21, 20224 min read
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Mississippi Masala and Black-South Asian Solidarity
Watching Mira Nair’s film Mississippi Masala (1991) for the first time left me wishing I had watched it sooner. This two hour film...
Anjali Khatri
Feb 22, 20224 min read
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Finding Another Story
While researching for my AP Government class, I came across a news article in the Epoch Times that read “Biden Administration Urges...
Project Stree
Dec 30, 20213 min read
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To Be or Not To Be: A Heroine in Literature
I can probably count all of the books I have read written by women in my English classes on just one hand. Now that has to be slightly...
Project Stree
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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