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A person wih peacock feathers over their eyes stands in front of a trans pride flag

8 Mar 2023 7 minute read

Protecting trans lives goes deeper than laws and representation

Priti Salian on how activists are fighting the colonial mindset to push for trans rights in India.

Women stand in a row holding hands in the air

28 Dec 2021 3 minute read

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Taking on the torch-bearers of patriarchy

A growing number of women are going against the stream in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

25 Aug 2021 7 minute read

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Is criminalization the right response to domestic violence?

Are legal punishments an effective way to tackle domestic violence, or are they failing to go to the heart of the problem? ...

22 Apr 2019 3 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

What if:...we scrapped the gender binary on official documents?

Vanessa Baird suggests a world beyond M or F

1 Feb 2019 8 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

How to survive elite institutions like Cambridge as a woman of colour

Husna Rizvi speaks to the activist-authors of A FLY Girl’s Guide to Cambridge – a new...

8 Oct 2018 6 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Our bodies, our rights

According to the UN, most surgeries on intersex babies amount to torture. Valentino Vecchietti calls for...

F.A. Cole at Women Safe Institute, January 2018. Photo: Kyle G. Brown

8 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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Survivors and doctors fight back against FGM

Without proper care, the value of post-FGM reconstructive surgery can be limited. Kyle G. Brown reports.

1 Nov 2016 7 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

PrEPped to go?

A new HIV preventive drug has sparked debate around the globe, as Amy Hall discovers.

16 Oct 2015 1 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

The transgender revolution

In this video, New Internationalist co-editor Vanessa Baird introduces our October magazine...

1 Oct 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Ma vie en jaune*

Jennie Kermode on being ‘in the middle’.

11 Sep 2015 1 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Haifa Fragments explores complex Palestinian-Israeli life

Haifa Fragments is a novel published by New Internationalist. In this video Chris Brazier...

16 Jun 2015 4 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

The Japanese doll’s house

Tina Burrett takes a look at the country’s entrenched gender roles.

17 Jun 2014 3 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Can you be a world-class football player and a good dad?

From rage on the field to caregiving at home: Mary Robbins discusses Luis Suarez’s transformation.

5 Aug 2013 3 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

One in a billion: born on a Mumbai commuter train

Neither monsoon nor gender can put a dampener on surprise birth, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

2 Jan 2010 6 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

Sex action

How ‘abstinence’ is pushing up the abortion rate.

2 Sep 2009 3 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

Sensationalizing Semenya

The media circus is missing the point, and making voyeurs of us all.

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