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#DataDrop | How are fertility preferences killing women in India? Even women with heart disease, diabetes or cancer are pressured to conceive, especially without a son—writes @NezMeds.

Godna, the fine art of tattoo painting, is practised by Dalit Dusadh women. Rinku Kumari traces its approach, raw material, and themes are nothing like the more popular Mithila artwork.

Mukta Manohar built a visual grammar of protest through theatre. @tupriya2911 tells the story of a unionist who stitched creativity into labour rights.

@Priya_Menon74 reports on a creative initiative using literature and visual arts that hopes to educate and sensitise medical students and practitioners about gender-affirmative care.

In popular culture, Delhi often remains a cliche. You rarely see its informal women workers except as footnotes. @Saumya_Kalia compiles a list of films, books and artworks where their unseen lives are recorded with veracity and compassion.

In this wide-ranging conversation with Usha B.N., Du Saraswathi reflects on why menstruation was her first political lesson, how Badal Sircar’s theatre changed her understanding of embodiment, and why writing is not just expression.

@TheMalini interviews Jyoti Dogra, who talks about the ideas of body and shame, how the beauty industry has taught us to separate ourselves from our bodies, leaving us in a state of eternal dissatisfaction with ourselves.

How are Dalit materials freely borrowed while Dalit artists remain invisible? @Saumya_Kalia’s report asks urgent questions about appropriation, caste, and authorship in India’s elite art circles.

From Godna tattoos to trade union theatre—how do women and gender-marginalised people use art to resist erasure, assert identity, and rewrite dominant narratives? #FromTheArchives thread 🧵.

We also track voter exclusion in Bihar, the murder of tennis player Radhika Yadav, and Spain’s women’s hockey team reclaiming space. Read the full issue & subscribe:

Our reading picks this week: a queer Dalit-Bahujan zine from Delhi, a visual archive of Gaza’s main street, corporate complicity in settler colonialism, and Priya Ramani on Panjab '95.

What does this week’s edition have? – ASHA worker and union leader Netradipa speaks to @Saumya_Kalia on 16 years of health work. – Can One Stop Centre data improve GBV response systems? Tanya Rana investigates what the numbers reveal and hide.

BehanVox is our weekly flagship newsletter. Every week, we bring you our two deeply reported stories, gender news you must know from across the world, and top reading/podcast recommendations from our team.

RT @sunayanaroy: "even though the Mission Shakti portal allows for granular data collection, it is not being recorded [. ] But, as I witne….

OSCs were imagined as integrated access points for justice. But fragmented data, poor infrastructure, and informal coordination are undermining that promise. What’s being missed in the numbers? Tanya Rana investigates.

In 2024, Mumbai’s OSC handled 799 cases. Delhi saw 405. But most centres are short-staffed, lack vehicles, and fail to record detailed case data digitally. What does this say about India’s response to GBV?

Frontline workers in One Stop Centres are underpaid, overburdened, and asked to do too much with too little. Read Tanya Rana’s detailed report:

What happens when violence is underreported within the very systems meant to address it? Tanya Rana’s report on India’s One Stop Centres reveals what their own data does—and doesn’t—show.

What’s at stake? Without documenting violence properly, we lose opportunities to improve response. OSCs were imagined as hubs for access to justice. They must begin by learning from their own data. Read the full report by Tanya Rana on BehanBox.

Much of the care work—including accompanying women to courts or shelters—is done manually and unrecorded. The Mission Shakti portal allows for granular data entry, but much remains in paper files.