Shikha Aleya
Interview – Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani
I feel that parents, teachers and CSE can make room for these disparate realities of adolescents by first acknowledging the limits of formal sexuality education, that the curriculum imparted formally fails in providing the kind of learning that happens through other sources.
By Shikha Aleya
December 18, 2024
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
November 19, 2024
Interview – Parmesh Shahani
The larger question is, who gets to bring all of themselves to the workplace, and who is either not allowed, or feels scared, or is bullied for doing so?
By Shikha Aleya
September 18, 2024
हैकर्स और ऊँची एड़ी के जूते
काम और यौनिकता? इस तरह से देखें तो यह आपकी पूरी ज़िंदगी है।
By Shikha Aleya
September 18, 2024
What is this thing, the workplace?
We need to expand the way we look at work, the workplace and the human being, understanding our approach to sexuality, society and each other.
By Shikha Aleya
August 20, 2024
साक्षात्कार – माया शर्मा
In this interview with Shikha Aleya, Maya speaks with a deep knowledge of ground realities about the increasing informalisation of labour and its implications for gender and sexuality, and about what labour rights and inclusion mean in real terms.
By Shikha Aleya
August 20, 2024
Interview – Ankur Paliwal
Queering to me is thinking, being, living and loving outside societal norms.
By Shikha Aleya
July 22, 2024
Listening in today…
In this great repository of the human collective consciousness and exposure lies a wealth of tacit knowledge of COVID-19 that is independent of the subject expert.
By Shikha Aleya
May 16, 2024
Interview – Suchitra Dalvie
Getting to know who I really am has been a game changer. Prejudice, anger, control and violence all emerge from fear.
By Shikha Aleya
May 16, 2024
Interview – Prarthana Prasad
Entertainment should aim to inspire, comfort, reflect and express. Even if something violent earns big at the box office, it doesn’t justify its creation.
By Shikha Aleya
February 15, 2024
Interview – Padmini Ray Murray
What we lack are digital spaces and infrastructures that are informed by the needs of their end users, that prioritise safety, comfort, joy and care.
By Shikha Aleya
November 20, 2023
Bridging the gaps in an evolving language
Fashion is a language that expresses survival, rebellion, freedom, visibility and invisibility, identity, representation and inclusion.
By Shikha Aleya
October 19, 2023
Interview – Kallol Datta
Clothes for me are our first line of defence. They are also our first act of providing relief.
By Shikha Aleya
September 20, 2023
Interview – Comprehensive Sexuality Education
We requested some sexuality educators to speak on some of the priorities they identify, and also to share directions towards possible ways that could move us forward together in the Comprehensive Sexuality Education landscape, keeping in mind that there are many different constituencies and interest groups involved.
By Shikha Aleya
August 25, 2023
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Food is some sort of extension of our bodies, our identities, and therefore food and sexuality intersect in a myriad ways.
By Shikha Aleya
July 17, 2023