Blog Roll
A Trip To Delhi: Women Reclaiming Freedom Of Movement & Space
This post was originally posted here. By Sheelalipi Sahana January 29, 2021 — In 1932, four Urdu writers caused a…
By Curated Content
A Review Essay: The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
The Sexuality of Migration speaks only to gay men from Mexico. It is reticent on the issues of other non-normative sexualities such…
By Curated Content
A Marxist-Feminist Reading Of Sexual Division of Labour In Family
The institution of family and the conventional understanding of the same has been conveniently romanticised and glorified in a heteronormative…
By Feminism in India
October 18, 2021
A Guide To Affordable Mental Health Care For The Queer Community
In a country like India where both mental health and non-binary identities are topics that are neglected despite being essential parts of an individual’s identity, it can be quite challenging to navigate through issues regarding the same. Accessibility to affordable and quality mental health services is a serious difficulty that the queer Indian population faces.
By Curated Content
A Gaysi Guide To Queer Anime
This article was originally published in Gaysi. Despite the categorization on OTT platforms, Anime is more medium than genre. As…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2021
A Critical Analysis Of The Surrogacy Regulation Bill 2016
The bill exhibits a lack of understanding of agency which ought to be given to a woman; that a woman should be able to make decisions when the question is with regard to her body. There is no need for the State to be the Big Brother.
By Curated Content
A Bottle of Liquor: How Bastar’s Adivasis Settle Disputes Over Love and Sex
A sense of humour, easy solutions and liquor as compensation help keep things simple. The Hirma episode is one of…
By Curated Content
A Beginners’ Guide To Being A Bisexual Muslim
Raising your head shyly, you stumble over your words as you ask if you can marry a woman instead. Instantly, your lungs seem to fill with a tsunami of panic, as you witness his usually warm eyes crackle – the first grey clouds of a storm saturating the brown hue of his eyeballs.
By Curated Content
November 15, 2019
6 Reasons Telling Women Their Power Is in Their Sexuality Is Not Empowering
This article was reposted from Everyday Feminism. December 14, 2015 by Suzannah Weiss One night, my college boyfriend, two of his female…
By Curated Content
50 Ways People Expect Constant Emotional Labor from Women and Femmes
This article was originally printed here. August 15, 2016 / Suzannah Weiss The work of women and femmes is traditionally…
By Curated Content
October 18, 2021
5 Urdu Stories That Explore The Plight Of Women In Marriages
All these stories are examples of courage and hold great significance in the development of the Urdu story and for bringing to our notice the misery of the average Indian woman. A new era of Urdu stories has taken birth that not only acknowledges the issues of women inside and outside of house, but also openly deals with ‘immodest’ and ‘indecent’ themes such as sexuality.
By Curated Content
September 15, 2017
3 Ways to Rethink Masculinity as a Newly Masculine-Presenting Person
Being a man isn’t about domination, and it definitely isn’t about subjugation of feminine people. We need to find a way to re-frame masculinity so that it isn’t diametrically opposed to respectful and equal gender relations.
By Curated Content
October 15, 2019
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…
By TARSHI
December 18, 2017
‘Trans Bodies, Trans Selves’: A Modern Manual By And For Trans People
This article was originally published at NPR.org The growing number of people who identify as transgender is raising a lot…
By Curated Content
‘Popular Stereotyping’
Time and again, our films underline the supremacy of man. Modernity is reduced to a matter of packaging. A modern…
By Curated Content
October 15, 2014