Have we prioritised #play for #Mentalhealth of our kids? Interesting piece on #children’s #access to play to stay #joyful and #resilient: bit.ly/3SRW9Ez #MentalHealthDay2022 Insia Dariwala Shilpashree Jagannathan | ಶಿಲ್ಪಶ್ರೀ ಜಗನ್ನಾಥನ್ Pranay Manjari Faith Foundation Shillong Jincy V Shweta Chari

''A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia." Thomas Babbington Macaulay

A conversation sujatha and I started 3 years ago is finally published! This article has been the result of the anger & frustration we've felt on the erasure of caste, & more importantly the erasure of the intellectual & activist labor of Dalit, Bahujan, & Adivasi feminists+

How do we persuade journalists to stop using "the mother's life" when talking about abortion restrictions?! 🙄 Read why this is not a helpful phrase 👇ippf.medium.com/can-we-stop-de… Yes, we're talking to you The Guardian!

Hey, airtel India Airtel Cares I have had enough of your circus. I applied for porting into your network on 16 January, a number I held on to for over a decade. Your customer care executive assured it would be done in 3 working days, on 19 I called customer care 10 times +

The Bengal famine of 1943-45 was extensively, meticulously documented by a tabloid-sized weekly called People’s Age, named People’s War during the years of WWII. It was published by the Communist Party of India and cost two annas. My story + moneycontrol.com/news/india/80-…

Hello World! We are #NguvuCollective - the POWER Collective - that unlocks the power of emerging leaders from marginalised communities to create large-scale, positive social impact.

1/2 “At the age of 9, I realized my attraction to women, Saira Banu in particular, during the movie Junglee while others were gushing about Shammi Kapoor,” says Ramya (name changed) a 70-year-old #lesbian woman from the city of #Mumbai. Here's her powerful #queer story #Pride2023

PLEASE RT! I am disabled and I got married at the Registrars Office at Khar Mumbai on 16/10/23. The office was on the 2nd floor WITHOUT a lift. They wouldn’t come downstairs for the signatures and I had to be carried up two flights of stairs to get married.

The suggestion of a 70 hr work week is underpinned on the invisible domestic labour of women AND by definition excludes women from the workforce. In 2023, this is preposterous & very old school. #WomenAtWork #DomesticLabour #SexualDivisionOfLabour #CareWork #Equity #Inclusion

What a giant leap! Such important & essential steps taken by Government of Telangana in ensuring positive birthing experience for women birthing in government hospitals. Mrs Karuna Vakati delivers the 14th Dr Lourdes C Fernandez Oration & talks Telangana’s Midwifery Journey.

Excellent example of how lived experience matters!

Air India express flight I5792 cancelled, no intimation. Rude behaviour of AI staff at Delhi, Guwahati. We 2 elderly women with daughter reached Guwahati AI792 today. Luggage not reached. Irresponsible, arrogancy towards traveller's. Airports Authority of India Delhi Airport Jyotiraditya M. Scindia

Embedding the midwife-led continuity of care model in health systems is key to making them climate resilient and environmentally sustainable due to the model being less resource intensive and low interventional. #MidwivesAndClimate #IDM2024

Dr. Aparajita Gogoi, ED at C3 and Global Co-chair at White Ribbon Alliance remarks that midwives are neither assistants nor gatekeepers to ob/gyns, but colleagues who work alongside doctors and nurses in a collaborative, end to end care model, in the panel hosted by GenderCollab.

What?!!

Not shocked by this commentary, but disappointed that AJOG gave it a platform. Responding as someone who added some to those 200+ publications on #ObstetricViolence This is exactly how a deeply concerning issue that needs urgent attention gets diluted #EmotionallyCharged

What she says! Fighting the term obstetric violence is epistemic injustice and not taking women seriously AGAIN – even, or especially, not when it's about violence against women. Same old story. Embarrassing for any healthcare profession to deny mother's experiences and reality.

When it comes to voting, the state will make itself available at the citizen's doorstep. Why not for healthcare?