![]() ![]() We think ‘Drawing the Line’ is an example of how those discussions can happen on a mass scale. Here in North America, conversations around feminism and women’s rights are slowly moving from the margins to the mainstream, and within this is a push for those discussions to be inclusive, intersectional, and international in their outlook. ![]() Toronto-based comics publisher Ad Astra Comix, in partnership with Zubaan Books, are set to release the North American edition of this anthology. Stories cover topics about gender, sexuality, harassment, coming of age, family, sisterhood, race, shadeism, class, and political struggle in a country that many in the West know little about. Drawing the Line, Indian Women Fight Back, Indian Edition, Zubaan Books, New Dehli, 2015Īs a part of the national conversation happening in India around women’s rights, feminist publisher Zubaan Books (New Dehli) teamed up with The Goethe Institut (Germany) for a week-long workshop with a group of Indian women, aged 20 – 45.ĭrawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back! is a collection of 14 accounts of lived experience by women in India. ![]() ![]() People demand change, action, commitment to the ideals of democrcy and egalitarianism. For days and months, the protests refuse to die down. “December 2012: Tens of thousands of people – women, men, families, young, old, rich, poor – come out onto the streets of towns and cities in India to protest the brutal gang rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi. ![]()
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