Mark Fisher was a British writer, critic, cultural theorist, philosopher and teacher popular for his work on ‘Capitalist Realism’ and his blog k-punk that dealt with radical politics, music, and pop culture. http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/
With an aim to democratise knowledge and produce critical journalism for communities in resistance, in the attempt to disbalance the status-quo The Polis Project believes in diversity, accessibility, and integrity. Its ‘Politics Podcast’ deals with the politics of everyday life in conversation with leading academics, activists, and journalists providing deep insights into how one can …
Alternative Justice’s core idea is to re-conceptualize justice as restorative and transformative. It critically looks at the carceral responses to sexual violence by the criminal justice system and believes that the very nature of the legal framework in deciding how offences get defined, prosecuted or punished is violent. It challenges the idea that all survivors …
The Kashmir Syllabus compiles a list of sources for teaching and learning about Kashmir. It foregrounds the voices, histories, and aspirations of people from within Kashmir, and moves beyond prior scholarship that often took security studies approaches and thereby privileged the statist perspectives of India and Pakistan. This critical body of work on Kashmir allows …
Velivada is an online resource website that offers access to the works of major Dalit activists, as well as makes available texts on Dalit history, liberation, and freedom. It rallies behind “Educate, Agitate, Organise”, words famously popularised by Babasahed Ambedkar. All movements should be centred around the building of a platform that amplifies those existing …
Portrait of a Lady on Fire A very large part of being a woman, of being queer, is the anticipation, almost fear, of coming to terms with and being perceived by another. Why does this resonate so strongly among us? “If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying …
Abstract This paper tries to provide a holistic view of the problems pregnant women were subjected to because of the Covid-19 pandemic. An unprecedented lockdown combined with systemic inequalities and marginalisation has brought on a tense situation for women. Adding to this is the scenario of poor family planning, further stressing a weak healthcare system. …
My mental health has always made me feel as if I am in the middle of a hurricane. I see the physical signs of a lived life — I see my age, body, and spirit grow — and yet, most of my memories elude me; nostalgia springs up for an unremembered childhood, pinning me down …
“And this old world is a new world and a bold world, for me And I’m feeling good” Music has a long history of being associated with revolutions, it is a form of activism in itself — a tool of resistance, of making accessible ideas and rousing sentiments that linger through the ages, that is …
Can I be honest here? Completely honest? I’m scared. Absolutely terrified. I’m terrified of writing this. Each word, each letter is hard to write, heartbeat pulsing in my ears. The page is adjusted on my screen so as to hide the title — what if someone were to walk in and see? Not very dissimilar to the …