'Feminism on social media isn't the only kind there is': Madhavi Menon

Movements like #MeToo should develop in conceptual directions that actually challenge the status quo rather than reinforce the ideology that men are horrendous and women are pathetic

Professor Madhavi Menon, author of Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India, has written extensively about iterations of desire in Indian history. As English faculty member and director of the Center for Studies in Gender and Sexuality at Ashoka University, her work and teaching responds to activism around gender, sexuality and desire as it manifests on the ground. These observations will feed into her next project on law and desire in contemporary India. The Wire spoke to Professor Menon about some of the issues that will shape this work – the recent ‘progressive’ judgements of the Supreme Court, feminist