On May 27th, 2020 Thistle reached Vaishnavi Sundar via skype to ask her about the social impacts the pandemic is having on herself and women in her country and region of India.

Watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc5_ew4ElyI

In this lively interview, you will hear Vaishnavi’s stories of starting an emergency contraceptives campaign in her region, of women’s grassroots networks to help each other in times of need, of how incidents of male violence in the home are skyrocketing under safer-at-home orders, of how the pandemic has impacted prostituted women, of the caste system in India and how it impacts certain women and about independent radical feminist organizing.

Ms. Sundar is a film maker and feminist from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. She runs this new youtube channel you should subscribe to and check out https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA0y…

You can read more about her life here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaishna…

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