The Singing Potatoes are a musical trio consisting of Harini Dias, Chinthani Seneviratne, and Shenali Kirindagamage. The band officially formed in 2017, following years of playing together as batchmates at Musaeus College since 2010. The Singing Potatoes have since worked their way up the ladder from gigs and concerts to…

Curated by Minadi Gunawardena Content warning: disordered eating, size shaming, sexist slurs. All music is political. It brings together rituals, sentiments, and movements. It holds up a mirror to our lives, beliefs, and norms, and this is perhaps especially true of the relationship between women and music. This list will…

Every month, we feature the work and story of a member of the Young Feminist Network with the hope of inspiring and learning from each other. This month, we called out for stories and poetry from our members exploring the theme of “Mothers & Daughters”.

Why are daughters scared of “becoming just like their mother”? Bonnie Burstow in Radical Feminist Therapy wrote- “Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they…

Curated by Dulandi Gunasekera, our latest addition to the ESSL team as the Junior Program Manager of the Young Feminist Network. “The oppression of women has created a breach among us, especially between mothers and daughters. Women cannot respect their mothers in a society which degrades them; women cannot respect…

Curated by Shamara Wettimuny who is a Beit Scholar in History at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis is on identity formation and religious conflict in British colonial Sri Lanka. She is also a Tutor in Global and Imperial History at Worcester College, University of Oxford. The late nineteenth…

By Sanjana Ravi Everystory Sri Lanka presents the first thirty stories from our ongoing work to create a compendium of Sri Lankan women’s stories — featuring those whose lives, work, and experiences have shaped and are shaped by Sri Lanka’s social, political, and cultural contexts. From the Stories of Sri…

ඉඳුනිල් උස්ගොඩ ආරච්චි, මේදිනී රාජපක්‍ෂ Everystory Sri Lanka presents the first thirty stories from our ongoing work to create a compendium of Sri Lankan women’s stories — featuring those whose lives, work, and experiences have shaped and are shaped by Sri Lanka’s social, political, and cultural contexts. From the Stories…

Dr. Asha L. Abeyasekera is an International Fellow of Urban Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London (2022). She also served as a senior lecturer — Gender and Women’s Studies — at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo. Read a short bio on Dr. Asha L. Abeyasekera, after…