Rubaroo with Gender takes place annually on December 10th, coinciding with International Human Rights Day. The campaign encourages everyone to contribute to ending violence against women, girls and marginalised communities, support women’s rights activists, and resist any rollback of women’s and marginalised communities rights. It also provides a platform for youth participants to showcase their own campaigns.
This year, the event was facilitated by youth as part of the Emerging Leaders Programme. It featured an open space led by Rubaroo with various self-facilitated stalls. Activities included exploring safe and unsafe spaces related to gender, self-love exercises, quizzes to challenge existing notions of gender roles, poetry recitations, dance performances, and more.
Workshop Fees: Rs 1000
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About the book: How might scholars ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life? Informed by over two decades of learning moments from a co-authored journey with the Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan (SKMS) in Sitapur and Parakh Theatre in Mumbai, Radical Vulnerability bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorising. Reflecting on her collaborations with activists, theatre artistes, writers and students, Richa Nagar discusses building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. Such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and ethical translation, and make knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.
Author's Bio: Richa Nagar is an academic and author. She is the inaugural Gloria Steinem ’56 Endowed Chair in Women and Gender Studies at Smith College. Her scholarship, writing and cultural work, in English and Hindustani, refuse the borders of academia, arts and activism. Her books include Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism, and she has co-authored Sangtin Yatra and Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India, with Sangtin Writers. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Marathi, Turkish and Urdu.