Ep 287: The Life and Times of Urvashi Butalia
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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How to Talk About Sexual Violation?
In the early days, when women of my generation came into feminism, one of the most important things for us was to sit together and talk about our lives. We don't even speak about sex, you know. So how to talk about sexual violation? Where er werd you get the words to to talk about it? Our literature doesn't give us any possibility because our writers also don't really know how to write sex. In a sense, it's not normal ized in our live so wean don't have the vocabulary to talks about it. Also, talking can only happen when you are talking to somebody. You know, memory becomes meaningful in the telling of it in many ways
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