TARSHI
The Editorial: Marriage and Sexuality
Traditionally, marriage and sexuality have been bagged together and tinted with a bed-of-roses romance that has, over the last century or so, been unpacked and critiqued for propagating oppressive societal structures of gender, class, caste, and sexuality. Indeed, marriage isn’t just about two wedded souls matched in heaven, but about earthly ties that reach far beyond the couple it binds together. What happens when the roses are let out of the bag? This month’s issues of In Plainspeak on Marriage and Sexuality invite us to lean in and take a whiff.
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March 15, 2017
The Editorial: Love and Sexuality
The Love and Sexuality issues this month have a few more articles than usual, and it probably reflects on how every one of us has something to say on the matter. Our writers attempt to crawl out of the tunnel of ‘legitimate’ love and sexuality.
By TARSHI
February 1, 2016
The Editorial: Let’s Talk Sexuality
“There is no sexuality without knowledge.” -Slavoj Žižek, Agitating the Frame Philospher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek writes and talks…
By TARSHI
August 15, 2015
The Editorial: Law and Sexuality
Is Law restrictive and limiting or can it be liberating and provide people a sense of agency when it comes…
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June 1, 2014
The Editorial: Humour and Sexuality
“Humour is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.” Mary Hirsch, humourist Here’s…
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January 18, 2016
The Editorial: HIV and Sexuality
On World AIDS Day, we published the first issue of this month’s In Plainspeak with the theme HIV and Sexuality. Global funding…
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December 15, 2015
The Editorial: Food, Drink and Sexuality
“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.” ― Salvador Dalí A Google search with the keywords “food sexuality India”…
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October 15, 2015
The Editorial: Films and Sexuality
The arts hold great sway on how sexuality is viewed, represented, and understood. Does art imitate life, or life, art? Or can it be tossed away as an inscrutable mix of the two influencing each other?
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January 16, 2017
The Editorial: Fiction and Sexuality
For many of us, it was fiction that fed our souls as children, and now as adults who are still ‘growing up’, it feeds us still. Fiction makes, remakes and unmakes us who walk in worlds of the imagination. It liberates us to dream various versions of ourselves and others into being as the articles in this month’s In Plainspeak eloquently reveal.
By TARSHI
September 15, 2017
The Editorial: Feminism and Sexuality
“Ab dil karta hai haule haule se Main toh khud ko gale lagaun Kisi aur ki mujhko zaroorat kya Main…
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November 15, 2015
The Editorial: Fantasy and Sexuality
Fantasy is make-believe. We make something up and then we believe it in order to make it exist. However, in some contexts, the make-believe is relegated to the realm of mere ‘play’ (as opposed to the ‘real’), but there’s no denying that make-believing is a crux of human civilisation – children naturally play make-believe games that steer them in their growth, adults use the hypothetical in their thought to make everyday decisions, and both children and adults rely on fantastical stories and myths to construct a common meaning that contributes to creating the world as we know it.
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November 22, 2016
The Editorial: Family and Sexuality
The trouble with the of the origin of families is that no one knows – Kathleen Gough In her 1971…
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May 15, 2015
The Editorial: Disability and Sexuality
What can persons with disability do and not do? Can they have sex? Should they have sex? However well-intentioned they…
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August 1, 2014
The Editorial: Consent and Violence
Felicitations to us at TARSHI! As we turn 18 this month, the currently legal age of consent for sexual activity…
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February 1, 2014
The Editorial: Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Remember the ‘first time’? And probably, you, like many of us, were plagued by fears of ‘What if…?’ But instead…
By TARSHI
February 15, 2015