Performing Patriarchy, Silencing Sisterhood: Internalized Sexism, Gaslighting, and the Rise of Counter-Narratives Through Autoethnographic Storytelling
Introduction Women’s voices are often suppressed not only by external patriarchal structures but also through internalized sexism within female social networks. Feminist discourse often foregrounds male-perpetrated violence and silencing, yet a subtler form of oppression persists within women’s interactions: internalized sexism that masquerades as solidarity. Situated within feminist contexts—including #MeToo’s uneven outreach and discursive exclusions—this personal narrative argues that feminist progress must include unmasking how women impede each other’s voices. It proposes...
Read MoreStepping into 2019 – What’s Moving You?
Hope the Brazilian Samba in the video moved you! But that’s not it. For me, there is more… It’s feminist freedom – the freedom in feminist storytelling – that has moved me across borders, literally and metaphorically, in the last 2.5 months. I just came back from a 10-week journey with my carry-on luggage across India and Portugal – yes, I travel light! But that has enabled me to rush to multiple locations that needed my activist voice. Was it easy? NO! If you have followed my Instagram, I was in high-risk situations day and night but stood firm as a woman. And I am so incredibly proud...
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Success in Post-Weinstein Era
Photo Credits: Jeremiah Hill | Interview by: Riddhi Ghosh If you read my latest interview on fashion and women, you may come out with a sense of success. After all, it is about using fashion (or any symbolic / aesthetic mode of communication, for that matter) that is right for success in a workplace setting. Success is not easy but we learn invaluable life lessons from hardships on our professional & personal paths. For the last decade of my academic life and media career, I have often received harassment and unsolicited messages that discriminate women on unethical grounds of sex,...
Read MoreCelebrity Studies Book Release & Keynotes
We are excited to announce the release of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past Idols, Artefacts and Epics by Michael Williams. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, the book offers the first major study of the use of the ancient past in the construction of Hollywood stardom after the silent era. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era. It engages with debates on historical reception, gender and sexuality, nostalgia, authenticity and the uses of the past. Michael Williams gives fresh insights into...
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