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I will keep adding more in this thread. Attaching some helpful tools to manage active trauma triggers, panic attacks and symptoms of heightened anxiety and even thoughts of self harm. #MeTooIndia #MentalHealthIndia

Anubhav Sinha's Mulk and The Many Forms of Islamophobia. My piece in the current issue of Film Criticism. :) dx.doi.org/10.3998/fc.137…

Few people I've met have found Pune as alluring and beloved as its residents. So if Damini kulkarni has imbibed Pune as much as it shows in this delightful (for a Pune bred) piece, she will hate my invasion of her privacy. I apologize but this Kaku wants to say you get it :)

‘Damini’ to ‘Lajja’: Films have many examples of how women who take on harassment are silenced buff.ly/2FdJD0H | Damini Kulkarni The arsenal of powerful forces used to discredit women during the #MeToo movement has many reflections in film.

In which I look at the many ways Lust Stories demonstrates that you are what you eat. epw.in/journal/2018/4…

'Lust Stories' uses the metaphor of food to unpack the politics of desire, companionship, and sexuality in India. bit.ly/2zYLII8

This is what Society of the Spectacle was referring to. Exactly this.

Will #Zero change the perception that a wheelchair is incompatible with love in the movies? scroll.in/a/904230 | By Damini Kulkarni

Will ‘Zero’ change the perception that a wheelchair is incompatible with love in the movies? scroll.in/reel/904230/wi… via The Reel

#BestofReel2018 Is it time to bury the item song? The answer can only be yes buff.ly/2OLYO4Y | Damini Kulkarni

#ScrollMagazine A Hindi podcast aimed at the Indian heartland is also winning over English-speaking urbanites scroll.in/a/905541 | By Damini Kulkarni

#ScrollMagazine A few cross-dressing male dancers are changing the way lavani is perceived in urban Maharashtra scroll.in/magazine/91022… | Damini Kulkarni

What’s in a name? From ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur’ to ‘Finding Fanny’, Bollywood movies offer an answer scroll.in/reel/911140/wh… | Damini Kulkarni

In highlighting India’s cultural diversity, an artist hopes to find her own identity scroll.in/magazine/91531… | Damini Kulkarni

#ScrollMagazine An engineer in Canada is urging South Asians to post their family photos and memories on Instagram scroll.in/magazine/92084… | Damini Kulkarni

Having interviewed many grassroots activists who have organised 100s of protests with even over 10,000 people, I've learnt that takes YEARS of mobilising, conversations, leadership, to keep rallies non-violent, especially when the causes are often life & death. + #CAA2019

"Raised in a politically inclined household, Lagoo had great belief in the subversive potential of art, and maintained that actors must become instruments of social change." scroll.in/reel/947154/sh… via The Reel

#HimalArchives | "Hindi cinema has historically been implicated in the task of reproducing a particular mythos around Indian nationhood." Damini Kulkarni on homegrown technologies at the service of Indian nationalism in Hindi cinema. himalmag.com/from-mother-in…

Wrote about a thing that has been tickling my brain for a while. Displacing difference, interrupting Indianness: Song sequences in digitally-released Indian-American films: Journal of Postcolonial Writing: Vol 0, No 0 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…