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1/ The Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls has deleted or flagged crores of voters across India since it began in 2025 – disproportionately impacting women, Trans, Muslim, SC and ST communities. We’ve been following the process unfolding.
Read our SIR reporting below🧵
1/ “There were so many people I used to visit…They would affectionately call me ‘Itha’ (sister). Most of them died and I cannot forget their faces.” After the 2024 Wayanad floods, ASHA worker Subaida did post-disaster work even as she grieved her lost home, family and friends.
2/ In an interview with @_liniya , Subaida talks about the carework she and fellow ASHA workers undertook, the mounting workload, and why she continues. Read here: behanbox.com/2026/10/30/asha…
3/ This interview is part of The ASHA Story, the first public archive of ASHA workers’ lives and histories. Read the other stories here: behanbox.com/20-years-of-ash…
#InternationalDayOfCareAndSupport | Tending to the sick. Cleaning the streets. Listening to someone’s grief. Cooking for a family. All of this, and more, is care that sustains life.
So why does it remain invisible? Read our infographic here:
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“The market may not be interested in care-based sectors…but that’s where the State has to pitch in – tax capital, mobilise resources, and prioritise care at the social and community level,” says Neetha N, Centre for Women’s Development Studies.
behanbox.com/2025/10/30/we-a…
Care is labour that keeps our bodies, homes, communities, and economies running. At BehanBox, we’re building a Care Vertical to expand how we understand, report and talk about care from the margins and frontlines. Find more at behanbox.com.
#Talkies | Protests for women’s safety swept India last month, as groups rallied with demands that have punctuated feminist movements for decades. But has anything changed in the grammar of protests and state response? Feminist activist Urvashi Butalia speaks to @Saumya_Kalia
"I’m full of admiration for young feminists because the consequences are so much more serious than before… The State has become much more distant from its citizens, if not hostile to & much less accountable,” - Urvashi Butalia. Read the full interview: behanbox.com/2026/10/22/youn…
1/ In this BehanBox Feminist Election Newsroom conversation, three reporters, @ayushikar1998, @BanerjeeSanhati and @samrraiqbal discuss the unequal burden of SIR and what place such an exercise has in a democracy.
Watch it here: youtu.be/dCRZkf-FaLc
2/ Want to be a part of such conversations in the future? Join the Feminist Election Newsroom today: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
2026 is the International Year of the Woman Farmer. Over the years, BehanBox has focused on the invisibilised labour of women – and their small acts of solidarity and resistance.
These are the women transforming India’s farms, forests and food systems.
behanbox.com/the-full-field/
“We leave our footprints on the swamp every time we walk through it, but the land doesn’t belong to us,” says Nalini Kandi, a Dalit woman who puts relentless care in restoring Odisha’s mangroves.
@piroeutteworld reports:
behanbox.com/2025/04/24/wome…
