Body and Sexuality
शर्म से भरी – ‘अदृश्य’ होने का मेरा संघर्ष
वक़्त के साथ मैं समझने लगी कि सिर्फ़ शोषण नहीं, उससे उभरने की प्रक्रिया के साथ मेरा रिश्ता भी मेरा ‘औरत’ होना तय करता है। सदियों से ‘भारतीय नारी’ को हाशिए पर रखा गया है और उसे स्नेह और स्वीकृति सिर्फ़ तब तक दी जाती है जब तक वो अपनी ‘औक़ात’ के बाहर न निकले।
By Reva Puri
June 16, 2023
मेरा दुबलापन, मेरी पहचान
मैं 9वीं कक्षा में थी, जब लोग मेरे शरीर के बारे में जो कहते थे वह मेरे अंदर उतरने लगा। मैंने पहली बार रुककर ध्यान दिया कि दूसरों की नज़र में मैं कैसी दिखती थी। यह अपने बारे में सचेत होने की शुरुआत थी, और ख़ुद से असहज होने की भी।
By Ekta Oza
June 16, 2023
कुछ ज़्यादा बड़ी
आख़िर यह कहने का क्या फ़ायदा कि मेरा शरीर मेरा है जब असल में हमारा मतलब यह है कि मेरा शरीर आंशिक रूप से मेरा है और बाकी शरीर मेरे माँ-बाप, जिम, मैं जिन लोगों को चाहती हूँ और वे मुझे नहीं चाहते उनका, मीडिया, समाज और अनगिनत अनजान लोगों का है, जिन्हें लगता है कि वे मुझे राय दे सकते हैं और बता सकते हैं कि मुझे कैसा दिखना चाहिए।
By Pramada Menon
June 1, 2023
Video: Trans People Talk Body Image and Body Positivity | Feminism In India
For transgender persons the body is a very critical juncture where a lot of trans politics happens, given the fact that a lot of our identities in terms of gender do not match how we see our bodies.
By Curated Content
Things other than maths I tried doing, and failed miserably
Waxing my body for the first time last year to have silky skin like the women on Veet’s box but ended up with rashes instead.
By Greeshma
The desolation in the desired body-canvas
The first sensations that we experience are related to and derived from our body. It is a site of experience, expression and contemplation. The body is a means of voicing our deepest realisations, but how others visualise it can be a source of intense pain.
By Ria Basu
June 16, 2023
The Anatomy of a Queer Body
I smell the judgement
and the disappointment
of my parents as I enter the hall;
it stinks of their silence on my sexuality.
By Gokul Prabhu
June 16, 2023
Special Feature: The Body – Your Genitals Are Normal | Excerpt from ‘The Sex Book’ by Leeza Mangaldas
Since we get to see hundreds of thousands of faces over the course of our lives, we know that facial features can take all kinds of shapes and colours and textures and combinations. We don’t see people’s genitals nearly as often.
Sins that can’t be washed away
Like some perverted Pavlovian desire,
the wafting smell of fresh soap
that fills up the air in the bath
has my pupils dilate when walking out.
By Hritvika Lakhera
June 1, 2023
Patriarchy Won’t Let Me Masturbate
That’s all the big roles and ethics
All there to fulfil.
Another task,
Another box to tick
Another concrete path to rush
Quick, simple and straight.
By Shashwat
June 16, 2023
No expiry date for love or pleasure
It is unusual to find films that focus on older people, especially women, given our obsession with youth, ‘fit’ bodies and beautiful faces.
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
June 1, 2023
Neither Madonna nor MILF
For me, pregnancy was a strange state of being so present and so aware of my body, while at the same time being separate from it. This experience really did a number on me during those nine months and during the postpartum period.
By Tena Pick
June 1, 2023
June 1, 2023
Multi-bodied Magical Body
Body + a million This article: written, read, edited, uploaded on to the internet, heard using assistive software, converted into…
By Shikha Aleya
June 16, 2023
Interview – Jyotsna Siddharth
Our bodies are the vessels through which we feel, emote, work or navigate our societies and the world at large. Our bodies are the real, live archive of everything we have experienced and they have borne the consequences of our social conditioning and decisions.
By Shikha Aleya
June 16, 2023