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#BleedingPaused

In an imaginary world, every menstruators dream of pausing their periods at least once. But, menstruation doesn’t stop for anyone. It continues its visits every month even during the lockdown! Hidden-Pockets Collective launched a month-long campaign on May/2020 to create awareness about Menstrual Health Management (MHM) during a crisis. It is an unnoticed global trend […]

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Access to Safe Abortion Thought Leadership

Telemedicine and Abortion: India says Yes or No?

COVID-19 has brought all of us to a standstill. It is highly unlikely that we no longer take things for granted after witnessing first hand how interconnected all our lives are. What would otherwise have been a skip, hop and jump to the pharmacy near our house to get, say a basic Paracetamol tablet, has […]

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Access to Safe Abortion Campaign

Abortion is Care

Abortion is Care Every day, a minimum of 10 young women in Karnataka is looking for help to have an abortion. These women have limited information on where or how to access the services that can help them. They also have limited awareness of their sexual and reproductive health. Studies have found that unsafe abortions […]

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Partners

Hidden Pockets has been working both at national and international level. Some of our partners who have helped us.  Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights(WGNRR) is an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide. Based in the global south, they are a membership-driven organization that “works within the rights, justice […]

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Events

Is space available to sexual minorities for sexual expression on social media?

While social media and sexual expression is usually viewed from a popular perspective, Hidden Pockets and Point of View decided to look at the same from a different lens; from the eyes of communities usually considered to be sexual minorities. Hidden Pockets and Point of View jointly hosted a panel on Social Media and Sexual Expression […]

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Events

Public Health : Young People in the Conversation

Hidden Pockets Collective took part in Public Consultation held by Prayasand Human Right Law Network in Bhopal in 2017. This year the theme was around Legal interventions in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Are young people there in the National Health Policy 2017? In order to answer this question, it is important to understand the definition […]

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Walks

How safe is SG Palya in Bangalore for women?

With Gender Equality at No.5 in UN’s list for things to improve, India starts the year with women safety as a widely discussed subject in all directions. Considered to be one of the safest spaces until now, has Bengaluru started drawing parallels with Delhi? In light of the recent incident in Bangaloreon New Year’s eve, it becomes pertinent to […]

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Volunteer

                                                                                   Intern Profiles Do you believe in being inclusive and also claiming your space even in the crowd? Yes? Then you need to be a college student looking for an internship to read on because we are looking for interns with these qualities. Basically, we are a bunch of women who got tired of complaining about […]

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Events

Camera and Girls, Revert the gaze for a person living with HIV.

Hidden Pockets Collective conducted a workshop with young positive girls using cameras. It was really exciting to talk to the photographers who covered the event, from the idea of “reverting the gaze” to muses becoming the photographer. It was an interesting insight into the world of photography. Check out the podcast link below.     […]

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Events conducted in 2015

EVENTS CONDUCTED BY US: Informal: Young Feminist Meet ups : When young feminists come together and discuss anything under the sky. http://hidden-pockets.com/second-young-feminist-meet-up-jnu-new-delhi/ Pleasure Pickings:When people meet up and discuss their work in progress – be it artists, artivists, scholars.     Art: Gender Trouble Workshop:A workshop on performances and gender. http://hidden-pockets.com/gender-trouble-workshop/ Spoken Word Performance– Abortion: […]