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Polity is a left forum for democracy, feminism, and social change in #SriLanka. Submissions welcome at polity@ssalanka.org

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PolityLK @politylk.bsky.social · Oct 9
Out Now! Vol. 13, No. 1 (2025), LKR800 from the Social Scientists’ Association and LKR1000 from Barefoot and Vijitha Yapa bookshops.
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The near doubling of women parliamentarians in #SriLanka owes to the community activism and left-feminism of 𝐺𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑢 𝐴𝑝𝑖 𝐸𝑘𝑎 𝑀𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑎 #NPP explains Kaushalya Ariyarathne MP, but challenges persist.

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Kaushalya Ariyarathne | Gehenu Api Eka Mitata: Building a Women’s Political Movement in Sri Lanka
Kaushalya Ariyarathne (PhD., Colombo), a founder-member of the Progressive Women’s Collective, was elected to the parliament of Sri Lanka in November 2024, and appointed Deputy Minister of Mass Media ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The near doubling of women parliamentarians in #SriLanka owes to the community activism and left-feminism of 𝐺𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑢 𝐴𝑝𝑖 𝐸𝑘𝑎 𝑀𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑎 #NPP explains Kaushalya Ariyarathne MP, but challenges persist.

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Kaushalya Ariyarathne | Gehenu Api Eka Mitata: Building a Women’s Political Movement in Sri Lanka
Kaushalya Ariyarathne (PhD., Colombo), a founder-member of the Progressive Women’s Collective, was elected to the parliament of Sri Lanka in November 2024, and appointed Deputy Minister of Mass Media ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The protection order interrupts harm but stops there. Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage asks us to re-design #SriLanka's Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (PDVA 2005)--from a wall to a safe space for victim-survivors.

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Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage | Safety is Not a Wall: Beyond Protection from Domestic Violence
Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage is a senior lecturer in the Department of Integrated Design at the University of Moratuwa and a Chartered Architect.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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The protection order interrupts harm but stops there. Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage asks us to re-design #SriLanka's Prevention of Domestic Violence Act (PDVA 2005)--from a wall to a safe space for victim-survivors.

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Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage | Safety is Not a Wall: Beyond Protection from Domestic Violence
Prasanna Pitigala Liyanage is a senior lecturer in the Department of Integrated Design at the University of Moratuwa and a Chartered Architect.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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"Rakesfall is an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art.” Congratulations Vajra Chandrasekera ( @vajra.me ) on the award of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
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Vajra Chandrasekera | “There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination, but it must be made so”
Vajra Chandrasekera is a writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka, currently visiting New York as one of the 2025-2026 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Kaushalya Ariyarathne breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and sex-work in South Asia, beyond binaries of victim-hood and empowerment, in a fine ethnographic account of #SriLanka's #Nachchi, writes Zahrah Rizwan.

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F. Zahrah Rizwan | Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers. Kaushalya Ariyarathne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
F. Zahrah Rizwan is a doctoral student in the Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University, USA. Her research interests include exploring the intersections of colonialism, ra...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Kaushalya Ariyarathne breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and sex-work in South Asia, beyond binaries of victim-hood and empowerment, in a fine ethnographic account of #SriLanka's #Nachchi, writes Zahrah Rizwan.

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F. Zahrah Rizwan | Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers. Kaushalya Ariyarathne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
F. Zahrah Rizwan is a doctoral student in the Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University, USA. Her research interests include exploring the intersections of colonialism, ra...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Will the new #Microfinance Bill be the latest knot in the noose for poor people in #SriLanka asks the Feminist Collective for Economic Justice? Why is the #NPP not consulting with women victims to eradicate the microcredit menace?

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Feminist Collective for Economic Justice | End the Microfinance Menace! No to the new Bill!
The Feminist Collective for Economic Justice is a collective of feminist economists, scholars, feminist activists, university students and lawyers that came together in April 2022 to understand, analy...
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October 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Two decades since the #PDVA, how does it work for victim-survivors of intimate partner violence? Thahira Cader & Raaya Gomez talked to lawyers on hurdles in obtaining protection orders under the Act.

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Thahira Cader & Raaya Gomez | Reflecting Back and Looking Forward: 20 years since the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act
Thahira Cader is an Attorney-at-Law and interdisciplinary researcher on issues relating to human rights, access to justice, and gender and development. She recently completed her Masters in Internatio...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Out Now! Vol. 13, No. 1 (2025), LKR800 from the Social Scientists’ Association and LKR1000 from Barefoot and Vijitha Yapa bookshops.
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Out Now! Vol. 13, No. 1 (2025), LKR800 from the Social Scientists’ Association and LKR1000 from Barefoot and Vijitha Yapa bookshops.
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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A few columns, a press conference, pronouncements by the cassock-clad and saffron-clothed; suddenly, the streets are alive with suspicion and anxiety. Ruben Thurairaj on how moral panic is manufactured in #SriLanka

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Ruben Thurairajah | ‘Dead Catting’: Manufacturing Moral Panic in Sri Lanka
Ruben Thurairajah is a Yorkshire-based doctor in Britain’s National Health Service; who also tweets https://x.com/RubenThurairaj and writes https://drruben.substack.com/
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October 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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20 years ago, the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act took force in #SriLanka. #PolityLK has a few yowls in store, but begin with this 2010 hiss from the Cat's Eye feminist collective.

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October 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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20 years ago, the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act took force in #SriLanka. #PolityLK has a few yowls in store, but begin with this 2010 hiss from the Cat's Eye feminist collective.

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October 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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FCEJ condemns the violence perpetrated by the state against the people of Mannar and demands that the right to energy be recognised alongside the right to a safe environment.

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October 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Women from across #SriLanka call for a reformed family law and practice that centres equality, dignity, and safety for women and children. Read, sign, amplify, and organise, around the Women's Declaration.

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Suriya Women’s Development Centre | Family Law and Practice in Sri Lanka: Women’s Declaration
This Declaration was prepared through a collective process grounded in survivors’ lived realities and Suriya Women's Development Centre's long-standing work in the Eastern Province for over three deca...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Has #NPP rule overcome #SriLanka's deeply embedded ethno-religious cleavages? Shashik Silva thinks not in his dissection of state responses to Sinhala Buddhist sentiment and nationalist mobilisation.

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Shashik Silva | Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Shashik Silva is chief operating officer of the Social Scientists’ Association of Sri Lanka, with research interests in conflict and peace, local governance, youth political participation, and public ...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Two men once in power. Two men disgraced. In a striking comparison between Ranil Wickremesinghe and Boris Johnson, Ruben Thurairajah plumbs the depths of their hubris and its consequences #SriLanka #UK

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Ruben Thurairajah | Man in the Mirror
Ruben Thurairajah is a Yorkshire-based general practitioner in Britain’s National Health Service; who also tweets https://x.com/RubenThurairaj and writes https://drruben.substack.com/
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September 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Join the Global Action for Gaza!
On September 6th, starting at 4pm outside the UN Office in Colombo.
September 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Two men once in power. Two men disgraced. In a striking comparison between Ranil Wickremesinghe and Boris Johnson, Ruben Thurairajah plumbs the depths of their hubris and its consequences #SriLanka #UK

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Ruben Thurairajah | Man in the Mirror
Ruben Thurairajah is a Yorkshire-based general practitioner in Britain’s National Health Service; who also tweets https://x.com/RubenThurairaj and writes https://drruben.substack.com/
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September 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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In a moving photo-essay, Sakuna M. Gamage brings poetry and pictures into conversation to ponder grief, resistance, and justice, in the wake of the ongoing #Chemmanimassgrave excavation in northern #SriLanka.

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Sakuna M. Gamage | Chemmani: Where the Soil Speaks, Where Memory Refuses Silence
Sakuna M. Gamage is a researcher with the Law & Society Trust and independent journalist and social documentary photographer based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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August 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Yes. #SriLanka's education system needs overhaul. No. The @NPPSLOfficial warmed-up proposals are not solutions to ongoing problems. Why squander precious political capital, asks Niyanthini Kadirgamar?
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Niyanthini Kadirgamar | Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: The NPP’s Education Reforms
Niyanthini Kadirgamar is a PhD candidate in education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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One week more to submit your EOI for the forum on the life, work, and legacy of Gananath Obeysekere. Send your pitch (under 300 words) to polity@ssalanka.org by 25 August 2025.
August 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Women migrant domestic workers, heroines and victims? Reviewing Magic Maids, Nadeera Rajapakse showcases how these women subtly and definitively resist these restrictive narratives through their own forms of feminist praxis.

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Nadeera Rajapakse | Magic Maids: Sweeping Up a Storm at the Sorbonne
Nadeera Rajapakse is an assistant professor at the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne in the History of Economic Thought and in English for Economics. She is a member of the PHARE (Philosophy, H...
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August 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Please note changed assembly point and route.
August 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM