July 2018: I answer questions that are burning your bras and run this column as a makeshift guide to the feminist way of life.
What exactly constitutes bad feminism?
“As severe a misnomer as the term is, we cannot deny how it sits in popular consciousness. The compartmentalisation of the feminist movement does not only trivialise the discourses that it aims to empower but also debunks the movement’s claim of being a safe and inclusive space by making participation extremely conditional. The politics of feminism has no set route, and no one is ‘bad’ just because it isn’t tapered according to another’s watertight perception of the same.”
This column appeared on Pass the Mic, the blog of Why Indian Men Rape in July 2018.