TARSHI
Editorial: Beauty and Sexuality
Beauty gleams in unexpected places, but its effulgence turns to tawdry glitter when it is shaped and squeezed into form-fitting frames. Rigid ideas of what is beautiful or desirable can reinforce oppressive structures. However, when these concepts are more flexible they can be subversive as well.
By TARSHI
October 15, 2018
Editorial: Performance and Sexuality
We are many selves. Or rather, like a series of Russian Matryoshka dolls nested one within the other, we perform…
By TARSHI
September 17, 2018
Editorial: Desire and Sexuality
Sexual desire is a potent force – it can and has led to all kinds of mayhem, but at the same time it can be a powerfully liberating and transformative force.
By TARSHI
August 14, 2018
Editorial: Power and Sexuality
In the mid-month issue we carry the second part of Madhu Mehra’s interview with Shikha Aleya about the law, power, inequalities, sexuality, consent and building a sex-positive culture. As Madhu says, for navigating negotiations and consent within sexual relationships more work is needed than merely lessons in legal literacy.
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July 16, 2018
Editorial: Wellbeing and Sexuality
In the mid-month issue on Wellbeing and Sexuality, we bring you an article by Jai Ranjan Ram sharing what he learned in his psychiatric practice from a self-identified pansexual homoflexible adolescent.
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June 15, 2018
Editorial: Language and Sexuality
In the mid-month issue we have articles about the power of language to name, shame, and wound as well as articles about the subversive potential of language to turn the established order on its head and sing and dance around it.Here we mean language, as in not-just-English.
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May 15, 2018
Editorial: Memory and Sexuality
In our mid-month issue we have an interesting medley of articles many of which talk about the memory of and in the body. Rashi Kapoor presents a therapist’s perspective on body memory and healing, Debanuj Das Gupta offers us a deeply personal and political insight into AIDS, melancholia and queer memory…
By TARSHI
April 16, 2018
Editorial: Home and Sexuality
Home. Be it a real home or an aspirational one, the very word evokes longing and a sense of comfort, safety, and belongingness. As this month’s articles show us, when it comes to home and sexuality, sometimes the real and the aspirational meet and sometimes they do not. Our homes may house us but they may or may not have room for our sexual expression and desires.
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March 19, 2018
Editorial: Friendship and Sexuality
The statement “We are just friends”, does it make you wonder? Just friends? As in – merely friends? As in…
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February 15, 2018
Editorial: The Anniversary Issue
Happy New Year! May we all have more to celebrate, enjoy and be happy about! We bring you this anniversary…
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January 2, 2018
Editorial: Freedom and Sexuality
Freedom and sexuality – it sounds so liberating to some. But to some others, freedom is the spark that can…
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December 18, 2017
100 Women: ‘Disabled women have sexual needs too’
Up to 10 million people in Iran are living with disabilities, campaigners say, but the culture surrounding the issue is…
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December 18, 2017
Editorial: Time and Sexuality
Take Time. Add Sexuality to it. How does it move? In a straight line, in circles, or does it zig…
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November 15, 2017
The Editorial : Caste and Sexuality
A deeply entrenched issue in Indian society, the monster of caste, as Dr. Ambedkar called it, derides, tramples upon, rips…
By TARSHI
October 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