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Layers Of Marginalization

How the NRC‑CAA Will Affect Women, Transgender People and People With Disabilities

...Adivasis. How does the NRC-CAA combination further subjugate these already marginalized groups in society? How the NRC-CAA affects women In November 2019, a nine-person team from advocacy organization Women against...

How Anti‑NRC‑CAA Humor Can Work as a Tool of Political Resistance

...Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. Combined, the NRC-CAA has been interpreted as a threat to many minorities residing in India as well, with the power to render them stateless and sent...

Pride Is Political

Anti‑NRC‑CAA Protest Is Changing What Pride Looks Like

...step further: they brought anti-NRC-CAA signs to Pride nonetheless, and sloganeered for azaadi, for detained activist Sharjeel Imam, for the rights of minority groups affected by the NRC-CAA. Now, 50...

In Photos: Women and Queer Protesters Lead Anti‑NRC‑CAA March in Delhi

...the NRC-CAA poses a threat of disenfranchisement to India’s 200 million Muslims, women and queer activists have attempted to draw attention to how the NRC-CAA will also affect various other...

To The Manner Born

Little Big Things: A 25‑Year‑Old’s Shift From Being Apolitical to Protesting NRC‑CAA

...The Swaddle: How the NRC-CAA Will Affect Women, Transgender People and People With Disabilities “Now, I actively look for sources of information around issues I care about and just share...

The Domino Effect

Anti‑NRC‑CAA Protests Have Left Women More Empowered, Confident at Home

...the NRC-CAA, the women say, has ended up making them more aware of their rights. Take documentation for instance. In an article for Foreign Policy, Nilanjana Bhowmick writes, “In India,...

By Anubhuti Matta

Fight For The Right

For Women at Protests, Challenging NRC‑CAA Starts With Defying Sexism at Home

I.K., 18, had told her parents she had extra classes every evening to help her prepare for her class 12 board exams. The truth was, she was at the anti-NRC-CAA...

By Anubhuti Matta

The Buzz Cut: How Bollywood Celebrities Feel About the NRC‑CAA

...an informed understanding of the NRC-CAA, leading azadi chants from the stage at multiple protests, doing explainers on the unrest across the country, all the while calling the UP police...

Little Big Things: The 34‑Year‑Old Protesting NRC‑CAA to Protect Assamese Culture

...political. Growing up, she had read Assamese literature and spoken the language, but after she realized the looming threat of the NRC-CAA, she realized her existence as a native of...

We Deserve Better Than Hasan Minhaj’s Baity, Awkward Coverage of the NRC‑CAA

On Saturday, comedian Hasan Minhaj dropped a minute-long promo of the next episode of his well-loved show, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. The trailer promised “#CAA + #NRC + more...

Sham Authenticity

NRC List Should Include “Genuine” Indian Citizens, Need To Re‑Verify Names: Assam NRC Coordinator

Assam’s state coordinator for the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has urged the Supreme Court to give directions for the “complete, comprehensive and time-bound re-verification” process of the state’s NRC...

A Therapist’s Notes on the Mental Health Fallout of the CAA‑NRC Protests

...How Anti‑NRC‑CAA Humor Can Work as a Tool of Political Resistance Like N.C., S.M. too, has started to constantly consume copious information regarding the CAA. They both find it difficult...

By Priyanka Varma

Each Person Matters

Stop Judging People’s Motives for Protesting

...spread of information regarding acts as polarizing and vicious as the NRC-CAA is what is enabling youth to take to the streets, and the rapid spread of the subsequent acts of violence against...

Hum Leke Rahenge Azaadi

All the Arguments You Need: to Convince People Protests Work

...the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Setting aside ideological differences regarding the NRC-CAA, supporters of the policies and apolitical people are critiquing the nature...

Inquilab Zindabad

In Shaheen Bagh, Muslim Women Redefine Carework as Resistance

...How Anti-NRC-CAA Humor Can Work as a Tool of Political Resistance And this valiant effort is being recognized, not just by the protesters and media throughout the country, but by...

We Must Pause Outdoor Anti CAA‑NRC Protests, but Keep the Fight Going

Thousands gathered on Chennai’s streets to protest the CAA-NRC legislation on Wednesday, 18th March, despite the highly contagious coronavirus pandemic. In Kolkata’s Circus Maidan and Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, women are...

Delhi Right Now

The Women Caught Up in the Delhi Violence

...Sunday in Chand Bagh, a woman-led protest against NRC-CAA was pelted with stones by pro-CAA-NRC mobs. “Many sustained injuries,” Kalam Ahmed, a resident of the area, told Scroll. Ahmed said...

By Liesl Goecker

Here’s How Protest Slogans Help Grab the Attention of People, Those in Power

...dikhayenge (We will not show our papers), all to protest the injustice of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and the National Population Register (NPR),...

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