20/01/2023
Thanks to Equal Opportunity Centre-JCC College for organising an interactive session with students about "Making the Household Equal and Safe" (across the gender & s*xuality spectrum), in collaboration with Women's Cell, Deshbandhu College for Girls', in November 2022.
Principal, J.C.C. College, inaugurated the session. Three speakers helped students gain insight on how social structures as patriarchy, discriminate against and damage humans across the gender and s*xuality spectrum, with special focus on the area of household.
- Amrita Dasgupta (Director, Swayam) delved into issues of girls, women;
- Avinaba Dutta (Co-founder Pleqsus India, independent public policy researcher) helped understand discrimination against transgender persons and s*xual minorities;
- Deep Purakayastha (Director, Praajak) brought out complex ways in which patriarchy turns against men and boys.
We learnt more about struggles of the transgender people through a short documentary on Anuprabha Das Majumder, who could not be with us in person.
Students of both Colleges, and Jadavpur University participated actively through performances, interactions, art and experience sharing.
Discussions culminated into a clearer understanding of how to make the household space more equal and safe across gender and s*xuality spectrum. While everyone in the audience experience some "household" in some form or other, this session especially benefitted students of Gender and Sexuality courses offered by the Department of Sociology.
