And I Lied…
An intense and passionate poem, by Meenakshi, that challenges social institutions, including marriage, exclusively for Different Truths. When did these lies start? Probably when the biscuits in the tin...
Widowed at Seventeen
Neelam pens a poignant poem that is related to the shocking and gruesome custom of shaving the head of the widows and sending them to holy places. A Different...
Anu Radha: Lady Behind the Documentary, A Little Poland in India
Rupa profiles Anu Radha, the free spirited, award winning, documentary film maker, writer, producer, humanitarian, journalist, women’s rights activist and a leader. She rose against patriarchy. An exclusive for...
Black Women Celebrate Africanness: Identity, Rights, Culture and Gender Assertion
The cultural values of the ancient Africanness handed over to their children by Black mothers, even when values disappeared in history and ideas turned moribund through generations of slavery...
Sojourner Truth, First Feminist to Assert Black Identity: Intersectionality and Truth
What Sojourner Truth may have been most famous for, not unlike the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, was her public speaking. Illiterate throughout her life, she nevertheless had a remarkable...
Grace of Black Panther: Spirit, Self and the Shaman in the Mother Continent
It is a source of boundless energy and power that an animal totem like the panther represents. Shamans of the world intuit that secret. Let us journey into the...