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On World AIDS Day, we published the first issue of this month’s In Plainspeak with the theme HIV and Sexuality. Global funding…
“Ab dil karta hai haule haule se Main toh khud ko gale lagaun Kisi aur ki mujhko zaroorat kya Main…
“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.” ― Salvador Dalí A Google search with the keywords “food sexuality India”…
“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.” ― Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work Development…
“There is no sexuality without knowledge.” -Slavoj Žižek, Agitating the Frame Philospher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek writes and talks…
[slideshow_deploy id=’6406′] How many of us know not to use regular soap to wash our genitals? How many know that…
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the…
In one sense, the body is what I immediately am. In another sense, I am separated from it by the…
The trouble with the of the origin of families is that no one knows – Kathleen Gough In her 1971…
“Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you…
What does it mean to be a woman? Are you born one, or as Simone De Beauvoir writes in The…
Remember the ‘first time’? And probably, you, like many of us, were plagued by fears of ‘What if…?’ But instead…
“Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise that I dance like I have diamonds at the…
We are one year old! Yes, In Plainspeak has been publishing articles from around the Global South, especially India and…
Movement. Stillness. Travel. Free flow. Restrictions. Borders. Us and Them. Movement takes us closer to our destinations and sometimes forced…