Japleen Pasricha
  • About Me
  • Skills
  • Employment
  • Awards & Recognition
  • International Advocacy
  • Publications
  • Talks & Interviews
  • Education
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Hi, I'mJapleen PasrichaFeminist Activist / Media Entrepreneur

About Me

I smash the patriarchy for a living! I’m the founder-director & editor-in-chief of Feminism in India (FII), an award-winning digital feminist media platform. I’m also a TEDx speaker, a UN World Summit Young Innovator and a Swedish Institute Alumni.

I started FII while I was still a student at Jawaharlal Nehru University and built it from bottom to top. I single-handedly expanded it from a blog to India’s most popular feminist media platform in just a matter of three years.

I was featured by The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in a book on ‘Women in Tech’ for my work at FII and felicitated by Maneka Gandhi and Ministry of Women & Child Development, GoI as Web Wonder Woman. I have also been recognised by the Swedish Foreign Minister for my work on the gender gap on Wikipedia. Currently, I oversee the strategic vision and growth at FII.

My story

I started FII as a Facebook page in 2013 that curated feminist content from the Internet. It is now a full-fledged bilingual feminist media organisation that creates and publishes unique content everyday. 

I began the Facebook page when I began my own journey as a feminist. With my background being in German Studies and not Gender or Women’s Studies, I began to look around on the Internet for accessible resources on the feminist movement in India. All I found were academic articles which were dense, theoretical and mostly behind a paywall, or content from Western feminist platforms like Bitch Media and Feministing.

FII thus, was created with a vision of having easy-to-understand, accessible, popular Indian feminist content on the internet written by Indian women for Indian women. 

Skills

Leadership

Feminist leadership is something very close to my heart and I practice it daily in my work at FII and also believe in developing leadership capabilities of my team.

Public Speaking

I’m trained in storytelling & public speaking and have given ample talks on intersectional feminism and represented FII in national, regional and global forums.

Business Development

I currently lead FII’s growth and business development and have worked with various brands and INGOs like Tinder, Puma, Oxfam, World YWCA etc.

Digital Advocacy

I design, create and strategise high impact digital advocacy campaigns and communications strategies for non-profits and social enterprises.

Facilitation

I train and facilitate workshops on social media, gender sensitisation, gender in media, digital security, among others.

Research

I have conducted and led multiple research projects on gender-based violence online and offline, SRHR and feminist media.

50Talks
20Workshops
25Conferences
3Research Projects

Employment

Feminism In IndiaFounder-Director2014-Present

I founded Feminism In India (FII), an award-winning digital intersectional feminist media platform to address the gap of feminist content and new media in India in 2014. Today, I oversee the strategic vision and growth at FII along with a team of 10-12 members.

Freedom HouseResearch Consultant2016-2017

I worked as a research consultant with Freedom House in 2016 for their Hyperlinkers Project where I produced a research report on online violence against women and designed and implemented an online campaign based on the research findings. I represented the findings of my research at four international conferences.

Point of ViewDigital Editor2015-2016

I was responsible for planning, creating, editing and publishing information on sexualityanddisability.org – and for growing it. In addition, I launched and expanded the site’s social media presence and assisted in sex-ed workshops for women with disabilities.

Breakthrough IndiaDigital Media Consultant2014-2015

I worked closely with the digital team, helped implement a comprehensive digital media strategy for Breakthrough’s various campaigns. I helped to develop high-quality communication material including blogs, infographics, and other campaign creatives.

Awards & Recognition

01
Young Innovator Award, WSA
02
Web Wonder Women, GoI
03
 Featured in ‘Women in Tech’ book by German government
04
Recognised by Swedish Foreign Minister for work on Wikipedia

International Advocacy

Global Conferences & workshops
  1. Imagine a Feminist Internet by Association for Progressive Communication, Malaysia, July 2015
  2. Stockholm Internet Forum by SIDA, Stockholm, 2015 and 2017
  3. Youth Think Tank by Asia Safe Abortion Partnership, Bangkok, January 2016
  4. RightsCon by Access Now, March 2016 and March 2017
  5. Freedom Online Coalition, Costa Rica, October 2016
  6. IGF 2016, Mexico, December 2016
  7. CSW by the United Nations, New York, March 2017
  8. Online Abuse talk, Amnesty Switzerland, September 2017
  9. Asia Pacific Feminist Forum, Chiang Mai, Thailand, September 2017
  10. Making a Feminist Internet, Malaysia, October 2017
  11. Re:publica, Berlin 2018
  12. Participated in SEVEN – the play, Geneva, June 2018
  13. WSA Global Congress Cascais, March 2019
  14. 4Gamechangers Festival, Vienna, April 2019
  15. Participated as a Youth Champion for a week long incubator by Rise Up, July 2019
  16. WHO Consultation on Abortion, Geneva, Sept 2019
  17. Attended Swedish Institute’s Leader Lab, Oct 2019
  18. Asia Pacific Review Beijing +25 in Bangkok, Nov 2019

Publications

How Liberal Is India?

Chapter: ‘Gender Politics and the State of Women Empowerment: A Feminist Perspective’

Sage Handbook of Participatory Research

Chapter: ‘Writing Women into Wikipedia’

Talks & Interviews

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  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Interviews
  • A 101 on the feminist movement in India | Japleen Pasricha | TEDxGurugramWomen

  • What is Intersectional Feminism? By Japleen Pasricha in A Conversation With Sarah

    What is Intersectional Feminism? By Japleen Pasricha

  • Japleen Pasricha On How She Helped Women Make A Difference | Multipurpose With Lakshit

  • Japleen interview SI Leader Lab

    “My vision is a feminist society”

  • Japleen Pasricha: Founder of Feminism In India (FII)

  • IRL: Elections with Japleen Pasricha

  • japleen shenomics interview

    This is how I Lead from Within: Japleen

Education

I’m a German Studies scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who switched to Gender and Feminist Studies professionally.

01
JNU, New Delhi

M.Phil & M.A, German Studies
2010-2014

02
University of Delhi

B.A. German (H)
2007-2010

Sapere aude!

Contact

New Delhi
India

Email
[email protected]

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