MAY 2015 | EXHIBITION

What really is Gender?
What are the essential differences that constitute it?
How does society relate to the existence of these differences?
What are the political implications of these questions?

These are all lines of inquiry that have gained powerful significance in recent times, given the surge of political movements that take up the cause of women’s and LGBT rights. In India, the appearance of these questions and discussion on them has, however, been very uneven. They are taken up in social movements, as well as in the universities. Yet they do not seem to have touched most peoples’ everyday lives and posed themselves to their thinking. Thus, it was the aim of this exhibition to bring this issue to the everyday public and to confront them with what is pressing about it. It hoped to estrange people from the prejudices of common sense and to make them see why, for instance, such things as the atrocities against women are not freak accidents but may result from certain systemic faults and grievous errors in ideas that are taken for granted in our society.

SOURCE: CONFLICTORIUM ARCHIVES