About the merchandise

We’re excited to share with all of you, these amazing and unapologetically feminist ARJC products, which can now be yours!

If you have registered for the conference, you can place an order for any of these products, and get it from us at the venue itself! (Keeping in mind our efforts to keep the conference as sustainable as possible, instead of mass production, we will only be producing the required amount & instead of shipping we will be handing them over to the buyers at the venue)

Important things to keep in mind

1. Refunds will only be made if for any products the minimum quantity is not met, due to which we might not be able to go ahead with the production. Please note that we will only be able to refund 75% of the total amount due to taxes at the venue itself.
2. These are limited edition products,  so place your order by 15th Jan. 2024 and grab these exciting pieces!

The Amazing Flabby-Breasted Virgin & Other Sordid Tales

The Amazing Flabby-Breasted Virgin & Other Sordid Tales is a playful, irreverent digital performance that plays with the myths and magical thinking that surround and define the non-masculine, non-heterosexual body. Inspired by the writings of Gynaecologist and ASAP Coordinator Dr Suchitra Dalvie, it poses surreal and satirical questions about how women’s bodies are taught, perceived, and practiced within medical education in the urban Indian context.

A textbook of forensic medicine in standard use across India today defines the breasts of a virginal woman as “hemispherical, firm, plump and elastic”, while that of a “deflorate” woman as “enlarged and flabby”. What is this body, and how does one operate it? How do we inherit the stories of the non-masculine body? How do we employ these stories as truth? This performance is part of an educational art project on systemic issues in both medicine and education today.

MASUM

Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal (MASUM) is a a long time and integral country partner of ASAP. Their community-level involvement is primarily with rural women in perennially drought-prone areas of Pune and Ahmednagar Districts of Maharashtra State. Acknowledging that women are not a homogeneous category and that multiple systems of domination – such as caste, class, religion, and patriarchy – operate in an intersectional manner, MASUM predominantly works with subordinated and minority groups.

ASAP