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Trans Act 2019: The continued misunderstandings about transgender as a gender category

Trans Act 2019: The continued misunderstandings about transgender as a gender category

Zoomed in photo of a computer screen with what looks like a table with numbers in rows.

The data continues to misrepresent the realities of transgender persons, reiterating the existing confusion about transgender individuals.

By Brindaalakshmi K

Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy

Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy

Person holding stainless steel tong and cooking a roti on a tawa.

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

Fragile Facts and Fearless Feelings

A close-up of a crocheted blanket formed of vibrant squares of knitted fabric.

That little baby born in spring,
Shall “he” identify as Queer?
Regardless, Polaris feels queer!

By Khawahish Asha Kishor

TARSHI at gFest, Gurugram

A poster showcasing various aspects and events of gFest with a black background and stuck to a black wall.

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

Gender and Sexuality Review

Two white badminton feather shuttlecocks resting on some plants in a dark and moody colour grading.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

जिम की जेंडर आधारित मांसपेशियां

A photograph of a person in a gym holding a barbell, his arm and leg visible in the frame.

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

आनंदमय अज्ञानता से असमानता की समझ

Shallow focus photography of black tree trunk that shows unexpected pops of colour.

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

Gender and Sexuality Quick Bytes

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

pink petaled flowers in a close-up photography

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

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

By Susmit Panzade

Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging

A group of three nesting dolls or matryoshka dolls sitting on top of a wooden table

a god made me in spite of its own image
a crooked, vile wooden doll

By Sara Haque

Matryoshka

Three Poems: “I dreamt…”, “The day…”, and “Wedding Album”

Three Poems: “I dreamt…”, “The day…”, and “Wedding Album”

A blurry, stylised image of people walking down a street

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

By Unmana

Close-up of purple and white heart shaped stones lying on the floor.

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

तीन कविताएं – “आज़ाद कर दो मुझे”, “पीके”, और “हमें नहीं बनना महान”

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.

हमें नहीं बनना महान
हमें इंसान ही रहने दो।

By अनामिका झा

Fiction & Poetry Gender and Sexuality हिन्दी

Freeda performs Nazar ke Samne at Agaaz Theatre, Nizammudin, Delhi.

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...

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

एक ठंडी सुबह में सूरजमुखी

A close-up photograph of a sunflower with leaves and a blue sky in the background.

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

Gender and Sexuality The I Column हिन्दी

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