One of the best things about writing a book is reading about it being discussed.

Sameera Khan

We had a fruitful discussion stretching on for more than an hour. The participants drew analogies of gendered mobility between tier-I and tier-II cities. The discussion concluded with a chapter on how Muslim women have fun in Mumbai, where the participants also shared anecdotes.

Inviting contributions for March 2025 Issue 'Transforming land and water rights, improving rural livelihoods and carving just responses to the climate crisis'

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'I will look him [Brij Bhushan] in the eye and medal leke aungi main, tu dekh [bring back an Olympic medal and show it to him]. If I train well, I can win a medal. No one can stop me.'

The grit and resilience of Vinesh Phogat—great story from ESPN:

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'Can a sport, a club or any creative pursuit on campus be imagined as open to anyone, free from the barriers of CGPAs or merit? With this question, a few women built the first ever women’s football team at IIT Delhi.'

What a hard hitting book it is Why Loiter?
Must read book to all #WomensRights #gender

The sindoor bit is getting all the outrage; but the judgment is scary even if that bit were expunged.
Judge ordered a woman (who wants divorce, is 5 years separated) to *return to husband* so he can exercise his “conjugal rights” (sex).
This is India.

As promised, the complete online version of my new essay on how walking and wandering were acts of dissent for medieval women saints of India.

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'At a time when hatred and jingoism is rampant in the subcontinent, books like these help me to stay optimistic about the future.' - Chittajit
Another lovely review of Yaari.
with nithila

Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx edited by Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai (2023): A Review by Taanya Kapoor
Taanya Kapoor

doingsociology.org/2024/03/15/yaa…

count bunty the impaler•বান্টি 🇵🇸 the weave of my life by urmila pawar
annihilation of caste by babasaheb ambedkar (including the foreword by arundhati roy)
draupadi by mahashweta devi (short story but v powerful)
why loiter by shilpa phadke (i haven't read it yet but my friends loved it)
pinjar by amrita pritam

Excellent reflections: On reclaiming public spaces/cities for women.

Why Loiter? | Shilpa Phadke | TEDxStXaviersMumbai youtu.be/nlgGNv5t92A?si… via YouTube

4️⃣ only by celebrating loitering—a radical act for most Indian women—can a truly equal, global city be created.

#नाद_पुस्तकांचा 📚 #वेड_पुस्तकांचे
#वाचत_राहूया_शिकत_राहूया
#कम्फर्ट_झोन_बाहेरचं_पुस्तक #पुस्तकांशी_सलगी
#वाचन_शुभेच्छा 💐

3️⃣ And they raise the question: can women’s access to public space be viewed in isolation from that of other marginal groups?

Going beyond the problem of the real and implied risks associated with women’s presence in public, they draw from feminist theory to argue that

2️⃣ Basing this book on more than three years of research in Mumbai, Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade argue that though women’s access to urban public space has increased, they still do not have an equal claim to public space in the city.

#पुस्तकांची_ओळख
( #कॉपीपेस्ट 😊)

1️⃣ Presenting an original take on women’s safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? Maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the nation’s urban public spaces.

I am teaching Why Loiter as part of the Urban Sociology course. Today my female students and made a list of what we personally imagined to be pleasure and fun in public spaces.
#whyloiter Why Loiter? Sameera Khan

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Why Loiter? #NithilaKanagasabai Arpita Das (she/her) ishita gupta (she/her)

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Take a look at some of the key highlights of our latest climate action initiative, the Udaan Fellowship. 🧱

Why Loiter? Sameera Khan and my immediate thought was that even half way across the world, how rare it is to find women occupying neighbourhood streets to play - it is mostly young boys and elder men. And I knew this line of thinking came from the book <3