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Khushboo Jain

Khushboo Jain is an academic, a social researcher and a human rights activist engaged in agency-based political struggle. Through her ethnographic study of the home-making practices on the streets of Delhi, she critiques the normative ideas of home, family and the public-private divide. She is currently finishing her PhD at the Friedrich Alexander Universität (Germany) and teaching courses on feminist theories, women in contemporary Indian society and reimagining the home.

The Story of My Hair and Now

‘I wish I could do it. It needs so much strength and courage. I don’t have it’, stated a random stranger, admirably pointing at my shaved head. ‘Well, you just need a barber to do this, not really courage’, I responded.
October 25, 2023