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@PaniHaq @tamil_labour @4bFoundation Their stories, struggles, and histories deserve to be seen, heard, and remembered. Read the full postcards and subscribe: substack.com/home/post/p-19…

@PaniHaq @tamil_labour Sunita, founder of @4bFoundation, has organised women in Kusumpu Pahari for over two decades—through a mahila mandal, as a social worker, now through her own foundation. She has something to say to those who come into organising spaces from outside claiming to help.

💌 Postcards are here! For Women’s History Month, we asked women leaders who have been organising, campaigning, and advocating for a more just world—to send you their postcards.

5/ “[We] have always existed, always struggled, and we will continue to fight for our rights.” Read Mridula Chari’s personal essay: behanbox.com/2026/03/20/new…

4/ The 2026 Amendment Bill applies retroactively. People with self-determined identities are to be deemed never to have existed.

1/ NEW: @mridulasee on identity, community, and the Transgender Persons (Amendment) Bill 2026—expected in the Lok Sabha from March 23. A personal essay for @behanbox.

I wrote an explainer about the Trans Amendment Bill for @BehanBox. Do read and share. behanbox.com/2026/03/20/new…

3/ Read more on why every crisis—tariffs, climate disasters, a war halfway across the world—lands first on the people at the bottom of supply chains and systems of gender, caste and class on our website. behanbox.com/2025/09/08/why…

2/ These workers’ accounts circle around the same question: when supply chains break, who is expected to absorb the cost—and why is it always the people with no real claim on institutional support?

1/ The war in West Asia has disrupted India’s LPG supply. The government has moved to protect households but commercial cuts have cascaded down, reaching the workers least visible in any crisis response framework.

3/ @Saumya_Kalia reports on who India’s care economy runs on and what happens when the budget refuses to see them – with insights from @KamgarUnion, @SRMUAP, @SrujanaBoddu, @ProfVibhuti, and others. behanbox.com/2026/03/17/why…

2/ 70-80% of women in paid care work are Dalit, Adivasi, and marginalised. The gender budget treats women as one category. It does not ask which women are in underpaid, unsafe care jobs—or why

1/ NEW: Unpaid domestic and care work is estimated at 15-17% of India’s GDP. The budget spends less than 1% on care sectors, while spending 5% on roads and highways. This year it named ‘care’ for the first time, but the spending tells a different story.

OUR COLLECTIVE STATEMENT ON THE TRANS BILL 2026 Sign and share widely! Please sign the statement here - forms.gle/LyUCSx73w7qs4M… Read here (translations in multiple languages) - tinyurl.com/StatementRejec… #RejectTransBill2026 #NoGoingBack

This #WomensHistoryMonth, BehanBox is centring women-led struggles from contemporary history that have already reshaped this decade. Read all these stories on behanbox.com.

#Archives | Dahanu’s fisherwomen are resisting the proposed Vadhavan Port that threatens fragile coastal ecosystems and generations of fisherfolks: behanbox.com/2025/02/11/why…

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we revisit our archives to spotlight women-led struggles, celebrations and solidarities that have reshaped public life in India in the recent past.