Blog Roll
Disability and Sexuality Resources
Posted by incurable hippie: I have been doing some research on sex and disability, and thought I would share some of…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2014
Desexualising Disability
Two of my most favourite disability-related public awareness projects in recent years have been the American Able project and Undressing…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2014
DARE TO IMAGINE
This post was originally posted here underAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) . When is the last time that you daydreamed, spending…
By Curated Content
November 16, 2020
Dancing With the Wolves: A Peek Into the Life of Bihar’s Anaarkali of Ara
In rural Bihar, a wedding is incomplete without women dancers swinging to saucy Bhojpuri songs in front of a male audience. HT attends an all-night performance and follows a dancer to see what lies behind the grind and glamour.
By Curated Content
Criminalising HIV
JOHANNESBURG – “If the law supposes that,” Mr. Bumble says in Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, “the law is an…
By Curated Content
December 14, 2015
Crazy in Love? The Japanese Man ‘Married’ to a Hologram
Even in a country obsessed with anime, Kondo’s wedding shocked many. But he wants to be recognised as a “sexual minority” who can’t imagine dating a flesh-and-blood woman.
By Curated Content
December 15, 2018
COVID-19: Can A Health Crisis Become A Breeding Site For Gender Inequality?
The novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has become a breeding site of gender inequality with social distancing measures that threaten…
By Feminism in India
Climate change exacerbates gender inequality, putting women’s health at risk
Reasons why SRHR is not prioritised—but should be—in climate change policies, strategies, financing, and programmes are because women’s contribution and roles as agents of change are often disregarded due to gender inequality.
By Curated Content
Clicking Nudes: Documenting The Journey Of Self-Love For My Body
As shocking as his request for a nude was, what confused me even more was why would he want nudes from me, a woman who hated her body? Would he appreciate these saggy breasts with their stretch marks? My ever growing thighs and my belly which has body hair on it, wouldn’t he think I’m ugly?
By Curated Content
February 17, 2020
Child, interrupted
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s conviction of two British paedophiles last week. But there are many other cases…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2014
Charlie Sheen Put a Spotlight on HIV and Sex Workers. But Here’s What’s Missing From the Conversation.
In the wake of Charlie Sheen’s announcement that he was HIV-positive, there was talk of how it would affect the…
By Curated Content
Building better workplaces
The #MeToo movement gave voice to the existing pandemic of sexual violence globally, especially against women. Sexual violence against women was (and is) being perpetrated in every space–our homes, the streets, and the workplace.
By Curated Content
September 15, 2020
Buddha Mil Gaya… Why Does the Thought of Old People With Sex Lives Make Us Cringe?
What is unconventional about the depiction of this love, among all the others that have been spoon fed to us via Bollywood, is that this romance between two older people – Nafisa Ali and Dharmendra – is not about stealing the odd glance and simply holding hands.
By Curated Content
Bromances from mythology
Biblical scholars, who value abstinence, reject such sexual interpretations, but not modern LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) activists, who have even traced formal same-sex unions in Church liturgy called adelphopoiesis or “brother-making”. We see what we want to see. We allow what we are comfortable with, and what we are mature about. Love is indeed a splendid thing. But sex remains a bad habit.
By Curated Content
September 15, 2017