Work as a social, political, and intellectual idea, and exploring its history and evolution through a feminist lens.
Feminist economists had long focused on time as a measure of work, or more specifically, as a measure of enumerating women’s work, even before we zoomed in on the endless time and labour women continued to expend on doing, doing, doing as the world ‘stayed at home’ during the pandemic.
The Third Eye’s new series, Back Story, breaks down research, praxis, and lesser-know insights for a wider, non-academic audience, to help us all make sense of the world with a little more wonder, a little more depth. In Episode 1, we meet Panchali Ray, author of Politics of Precarity…
“If everyone grew food on their balconies and terraces, we would have enough food to eat.” We are in a classroom, invited to sensitise urban students about rural India. The student’s statement drops like a silent bomb.
When a teacher asked her students to think about the concept of confinement the last thing she expected was for most of them to shoot videos of their mothers.
Can a girl choose who or how she wants to love? Can a boy choose who he wants to marry? If a girl says ‘I do’ to her partner and both of them consensually fall in love before the legal age of marriage, is there space for that love to exist?
In cinema, the working woman is often managing the twin axes of shame and pride. What is the work she is supposed to do? What is she not? We take two cinematic pieces- which focus on women and work…
Animator Gaurav Ogale developed Together We Can as part of a series of 12 collaborative pieces developed with artists under lockdown.
Annie Raja is the General Secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women. In over 65 years of its existence, the NFIW has rallied behind issues that affect women’s rights as workers, as well as their full citizenship in this country.
“Stay at home, stay safe. Just chill out at home, everyone told us,” murmur many young women in long distance phone calls, voice notes and Whatsapp messages, tenuous lines keeping us together during lockdown.
The Third Eye presents a new video series that invites spoken word artists, performers and theatre practitioners to interpret lesser known womxn’s writings, those that offer an alternative history of India.
