women’s rights
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The Veil We Will Not Wear
A Bahá’í response to the ‘saffron and crescent’ post, arguing that the Bahá’í position is a distinct civilisational stance that begins with Táhirih unveiling at Badasht in 1848, and that…
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Why is Pakistani Culture obsessed with Policing Female Virginity?
X.T.M reflects on an overheard story of a Pakistani-origin daughter in Europe and the murders of Sana Cheema and Qandeel Baloch. The post argues that policing a daughter’s body remains…
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Podcast explores advances in gender equality in India
X.T.M recommends a podcast on grassroots progress on gender equality in rural Bihar, then reflects as a Bahá’í on how the faith might suit Dharmic backgrounds and how Christianity has…
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A Golden Land of Fire
A short post calling an image of the #MeToo movement powerful, and arguing that India’s reckoning shows how advanced it is regionally and vindicates its liberal democratic tradition.
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Happy Women’s Day
For Women’s Day, X.T.M notes a Cambridge professor who is a Bahá’í and quotes ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s saying that humanity has two wings, women and men, adding an account of an exchange…
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An X-Y feminist
The author argues that men can be feminists, that feminism and humanism amount to the same thing, and that the decision on abortion belongs wholly to the woman, with subsidised…
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Baby, light my fire
After a schoolgirl lit her father’s funeral pyre, the author argues for making religious rules gender-neutral to weaken son preference, sympathises with Arya Samaj’s rejection of caste and ritual, and…
