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Editorial – Gender and Sexuality
Four hands coming together from the four corners of the image to solve a multi-coloured jigsaw puzzle.
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality

Gender and sexuality are like constituent parts of a jigsaw puzzle that keeps morphing in such a way that nothing ever ‘fits’ for long, and the game begins anew each time.
By TARSHI
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality
Editorial Gender and Sexuality
A small slice of Gender & Sexuality feels like this!
Close-up Photo of People wearing Pride Colored Socks.
A small slice of Gender & Sexuality feels like this!

Here’s to some quiet time listening in to what people are saying, and consuming, on the Internet, particularly on social media, on the subject of gender and sexuality.
By Shikha Aleya
A small slice of Gender & Sexuality feels like this!
Gender and Sexuality Interview
साक्षात्कार – चाँद
A photo of Chand dressed in a red sari with a white blouse, holding a mike on a stage and reading out from their phone.
साक्षात्कार – चाँद

चूँकि दुनिया हाशिये में जीने वाले लोगों के प्रति इतनी प्रतिकूल रही है, इसलिए वे लोग हमेशा से, हर जगह ‘सुरक्षित स्थान’ बनाने की कोशिश करते आ रहे हैं।
By Akshita Singh and Pragya Solanki
साक्षात्कार – चाँद
Gender and Sexuality Interview हिन्दी
Interview – Chand
A photo of Chand dressed in a red sari with a white blouse, holding a mike on a stage and reading out from their phone.
Interview – Chand

Safe spaces in the way that they often circulate are depoliticised and the assumption is that there won’t be any conflicts, but there can be no safe space without an exchange of ideas, which will create some bad feelings leading to conflict.
By Akshita Singh and Pragya Solanki
Interview – Chand
Gender and Sexuality Interview
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India
Eight people out of the frame with their hands outstretched in a circle holding phones showing a single jigsaw puzzle piece in different colours on each phone. This is against a vibrant coloured backgroud with a wave-like diffused rainbow going from one side to the other.
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India

What does belonging, then, look like in urban India for people from different social, economic and political backgrounds?
By Vanshika Gupta and Niv
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India
Gender and Sexuality Voices
Trans Act 2019: The continued misunderstandings about transgender as a gender category
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Trans Act 2019: The continued misunderstandings about transgender as a gender category

The data continues to misrepresent the realities of transgender persons, reiterating the existing confusion about transgender individuals.
By Brindaalakshmi K
Trans Act 2019: The continued misunderstandings about transgender as a gender category
Gender and Sexuality Voices
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
Person holding stainless steel tong and cooking a roti on a tawa.
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy

Everyone talks about how nobody can put a price on how much homemakers do for us, but nobody talks about the kind of behaviour they are subjected to almost every day.

By Anuja Tripathy
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
Gender and Sexuality Voices
Fragile Facts and Fearless Feelings
A close-up of a crocheted blanket formed of vibrant squares of knitted fabric.
Fragile Facts and Fearless Feelings

That little baby born in spring,
Shall “he” identify as Queer?
Regardless, Polaris feels queer!
By Khawahish Asha Kishor
Fragile Facts and Fearless Feelings
Fiction & Poetry Gender and Sexuality
TARSHI at gFest, Gurugram
A poster showcasing various aspects and events of gFest with a black background and stuck to a black wall.
TARSHI at gFest, Gurugram

This exhibition covered themes such as gender roles and division of labour, migration and belonging, disability and queerness, and the lived experiences of women artists. 
By TARSHI
TARSHI at gFest, Gurugram
Gender and Sexuality Review
Badminton Court
Two white badminton feather shuttlecocks resting on some plants in a dark and moody colour grading.
Badminton Court

Do you know what it feels like to be seen? I also don’t know what it feels like to be properly heard, but that’s a question for another time.
By Sakshi Nain Bishnoi
Badminton Court
Fiction & Poetry Gender and Sexuality
Home-coming
sunlight passing through open windows
Home-coming

The morning was heavy, laden with the weight of expectation, with the unsettling realisation that something was about to shift.

By Niv, Vanshika Gupta, Anjani Chadha
Home-coming
Fiction & Poetry Gender and Sexuality
Find Yourself – A Triptych
The words Find and Yourself appear large in the centre of the illustration. Find has indents across the middle that makes it seem as though the letters are flowing into each other in order. Yourself has similar indentations flowing backwards. In the background we see several vaginal and sex toy shapes, further behind we see colourful blobs.
Find Yourself – A Triptych

As we grow and experience intimate relationships, pleasure becomes taboo or is only okay as a performance for another person, rather than our right as human beings.
By Suryaa Rajan
Find Yourself – A Triptych
Brushstrokes Gender and Sexuality Visual Corner
कैसा होगा अगर हम यौनिकता को अपनाते हुए बड़े हों?
bottom half of a person in blue denim jeans and pink and white nike sneakers standing against a wall with their legs crosssed.
कैसा होगा अगर हम यौनिकता को अपनाते हुए बड़े हों?

अपनी परिभाषा, अर्थ और लांछन के आस-पास की अस्पष्टता के कारण यौनिकता एक अछूता, अनदेखा, और मनाही का क्षेत्र बना हुआ है।
By Sreejani
कैसा होगा अगर हम यौनिकता को अपनाते हुए बड़े हों?
Gender and Sexuality Voices हिन्दी
जिम की जेंडर आधारित मांसपेशियां
A photograph of a person in a gym holding a barbell, his arm and leg visible in the frame.
जिम की जेंडर आधारित मांसपेशियां

मैं उन विभिन्न जिमों के बाथरूम में बिताए अपने अनुभवों को याद कर सकता हूँ।  पुरुषों का बाथरूम एक अद्भुत जगह होता है यह देखने के लिए कि कैसे यौनिकता अपने अलग-अलग पहलुओं में ज़ाहिर होती है।
By Shiva Chauhan
जिम की जेंडर आधारित मांसपेशियां
Gender and Sexuality Voices हिन्दी
आनंदमय अज्ञानता से असमानता की समझ
Shallow focus photography of black tree trunk that shows unexpected pops of colour.
आनंदमय अज्ञानता से असमानता की समझ

अपने बच्चों को बाहरी दुनिया की बुराइयों से बचाने की अपने यक़ीन के कारण भारतीय परिवार इस सच्चाई को नज़रअंदाज़ कर देते हैं कि बच्चों को भी दुनिया को समझने के लिए तैयारी की ज़रुरत होती है।

By Aditi Mishra
आनंदमय अज्ञानता से असमानता की समझ
Gender and Sexuality Voices हिन्दी
Quick Bytes with Taash
A close-up photo of Taash.
Quick Bytes with Taash

The relationship with my body is so fragmented that there’s not a primary “real” me, and that’s also how I locate queerness within disability.

By Taash
Quick Bytes with Taash
Gender and Sexuality Quick Bytes
The Future is Femme
pink petaled flowers in a close-up photography
The Future is Femme

The patriarchy is petrified of gender fluidity. Not only does the femininomenon threaten the modes of sex-based binaries, but it also undermines sexist hierarchies.

By Sindhu Rajasekaran
The Future is Femme
Gender and Sexuality Issue In Focus
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
water drops on water base
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging

Who gets to imagine this utopian sociality, or future, of the queer movement?

By Susmit Panzade
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
Gender and Sexuality Voices
Matryoshka
A group of three nesting dolls or matryoshka dolls sitting on top of a wooden table
Matryoshka

a god made me in spite of its own image
a crooked, vile wooden doll
By Sara Haque
Matryoshka
Fiction & Poetry Gender and Sexuality
Three Poems: “I dreamt…”, “The day…”, and “Wedding Album”
A blurry, stylised image of people walking down a street
Three Poems: “I dreamt…”, “The day…”, and “Wedding Album”

I always thought I’d get married in a white mekhla-sador, the paht soft and warming, so in cool weather please.

By Unmana
Three Poems: “I dreamt…”, “The day…”, and “Wedding Album”
Fiction & Poetry Gender and Sexuality
Loving Yourself
Close-up of purple and white heart shaped stones lying on the floor.
Loving Yourself

We carve strangers’ words onto our skin
like tattoos to be flaunted while hiding away
everything that we are from within.
By Aashi Singh
Loving Yourself
Fiction & Poetry Gender and Sexuality
तीन कविताएं – “आज़ाद कर दो मुझे”, “पीके”, और “हमें नहीं बनना महान”
three concrete sculptures resembling human figures installed at a high altitude and facing towards the right of the image.
तीन कविताएं – “आज़ाद कर दो मुझे”, “पीके”, और “हमें नहीं बनना महान”

हमें नहीं बनना महान
हमें इंसान ही रहने दो।
By अनामिका झा
तीन कविताएं – “आज़ाद कर दो मुझे”, “पीके”, और “हमें नहीं बनना महान”
Fiction & Poetry Gender and Sexuality हिन्दी
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree
Freeda performs Nazar ke Samne at Agaaz Theatre, Nizammudin, Delhi.
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree

Maraa means ‘tree’ in Kannada and it is the nature of a tree that we wish to embody, with strong roots, branches in different directions, growing tall but also wilting, dying and beginning again.
By Angarika Guha
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree
Gender and Sexuality On the Ground with...
रोयेंदार इल्लियां और मैं
Picture of a hairy catterpillar
रोयेंदार इल्लियां और मैं

मुझे आज भी वो दिन याद है जब मेरे पिता ने मुझे हस्तमैथुन करते हुए देखा लिया था।
By Anupom Kumar Hazarika
रोयेंदार इल्लियां और मैं
Gender and Sexuality Voices हिन्दी
एक ठंडी सुबह में सूरजमुखी
A close-up photograph of a sunflower with leaves and a blue sky in the background.
एक ठंडी सुबह में सूरजमुखी

मेरे जेंडर के बारे में उनकी प्रतिकारिता हमारी बातचीत में हर जगह होती है, लेकिन वह मुझे यह भरोसा देने में भी देर नहीं लगातीं कि मेरी ग़ैर-विषमलैंगिकतावादी यौनिकता ने उन्हें कभी परेशान नहीं किया।
By Neel
एक ठंडी सुबह में सूरजमुखी
Gender and Sexuality The I Column हिन्दी
काम ही काम हर जगह, पर दिखाने के लिए एक बूँद भी नहीं
काम ही काम हर जगह, पर दिखाने के लिए एक बूँद भी नहीं

ज जब मैं अपनी माँ और चेची के अनुभवों के बारे में एक इंटरसेक्शनल यानी अंतर्विभागीय नारीवादी नज़रिए से लिख रही हूँ, तो मैं यह सोचती रह जाती हूँ कि उनके शारीरिक और भावनात्मक श्रम का भुगतान कौन करेगा।
By Sharada Vinod
काम ही काम हर जगह, पर दिखाने के लिए एक बूँद भी नहीं
Gender and Sexuality Voices हिन्दी

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Cricket, football, hopscotch, whatever the game, we have all wanted to be included for the sheer joy not only of exercising body and mind but also of being part of a team, of being noticed and celebrated. Sports and athletics offer us a playground to explore and express parts of ourselves that may otherwise forever lie dormant.

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A space can make us feel constricted or liberated, and sometimes even both at the same and at varying times. The combination of spaces that we may be occupying in the moment, as well as those we have in the past, predisposes us to act, feel and experience our sexuality in different ways.

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