Sometimes it takes months, even years, to understand and accept intimate partner abuse, especially if it's an intrusion into one's online space. Whether it's being coerced to share a password with your partner, or allowing them to check your messages, women, transpersons and those with non-normative sexual orientations are most often taught it's normal under the guise of love. As one of the fallouts of these gender-based violations, their space in the online world shrinks, and what remains is a sense of isolation, says Navi Mumbai-based artist Indu Harikumar. "As someone who has faced gender-based violence and seen the way my space online shrunk, I know that it makes you feel like you don't belong. So, I wanted to study it and build a space for solidarity," says the artist, who has started a people-powered project called #LoveSexandTech to illustrate such real-life experiences of women.

The project is part of a global campaign called Take Back The Tech! by the Association for Progressive Communications that empowers women to take control of technology to prevent violence against them. Harikumar started working on the project in August, after getting the grant in July, and sought help from women to share their stories. Illustrated as standalone comics, she has posted four of the eight stories, each documenting all sorts of restrictions placed by partners on women.