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• A little girl challenging notions of beauty and body image

  By Sandhu Bhamra on May 13, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Look at the picture on the right. This is a snapshot from the only fairytale book I bought my five-year old daughter. I bought it, because even though I dislike the prince-rescues-princess gender stereotype, I wanted… Read More ›

• Yoga is not scientific; science is, but a small part of Yoga

  By Sandhu Bhamra on May 3, 2013 • ( 3 )

  By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Whoa! What? Yes, Yoga is not scientific; science is, but a small part of Yoga. Now you’ll ask: how? Prove it. Give me the scientific evidence. First an explanation of where science stands in context with… Read More ›

• Why free food is not the highlight of Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan (parade)

  By Sandhu Bhamra on April 21, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan (parade) is not about free food. Period. I am tired of hearing the phrase “free food” in some media coverage without giving a context to it. Yes, the food is served free of… Read More ›

• Terrorism has no race, no culture, or an accent

  By Sandhu Bhamra on April 16, 2013 • ( 2 )

  By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra The first of the many tweets in reaction to the twin bombings at the Boston marathon yesterday: “Oh God, please, let it not be a Muslim”. “Please don’t be Arabs or Muslims”. The blasts, now classified… Read More ›

• Parenting rarely works on advice, but here’s one: don’t lie to your child

  By Sandhu Bhamra on April 10, 2013 • ( 6 )

  By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra At my daughter’s school, to drop her off, I saw one of her classmates miserably clinging to his mother. As we waited for the kindergarten teacher to come and take the kids, I politely inquired if… Read More ›

• Why these five “solutions” can’t end rape culture

  By Sandhu Bhamra on April 7, 2013 • ( 9 )

  By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Last month, I wrote how Patriarchy and racism give birth to rape culture, not a drunk woman or her miniskirt. It generated quite a response, but for any blogger, academic researcher, activist, and feminist, who is… Read More ›

• Why the fear around “ethnic enclaves” and fewer White faces in Metro Vancouver?

  By Sandhu Bhamra on April 5, 2013 • ( 19 )

  

  By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra If you are reading this on your handheld device, please sit down and put your device on a table, lest you drop it and break it. Here’s the scariest news to come out this week: Whites… Read More ›

• Guest blog: Bollywood extravaganza TOIFA comes to Vancouver — on the backs of South Asian women

  By Sandhu Bhamra on March 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  First came the Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA) announcement. Interestingly, the timing of the awards couldn’t be politically better: to be held on April 06,  just ahead of the B.C. provincial elections on May 14, the star-studded show has… Read More ›

• Patriarchy and racism give birth to rape culture, not a drunk woman or her miniskirt

  By Sandhu Bhamra on March 19, 2013 • ( 22 )

  By: Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra The 16-year old Steubenville rape victim went through a horrifying rape ordeal – she was raped, tossed around like a sex toy, photographed and mocked at. It just didn’t happen once and stopped, but it happened… Read More ›

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