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Video Page: How Emotionally Healthy Are You?
The video “How Emotionally Healthy Are You?” by The School Of Life leads us through a series of questions to look at various aspects like self-love, trust, communication and letting go
By Curated Content
June 1, 2018
The Indian Beta
While we have come a long way from the singular Freudian focus on sexual energies and reducing most mental health disturbances to sexuality, there is no doubting its significance for an individual’s wellbeing.
By Mahesh Natarajan
June 1, 2018
Interview – Ratnaboli Ray
See, whenever people speak about sexuality, they speak of violence; that seems to be the only recognised form of sexuality in the lives of people with mental health conditions. But there are so many happy, sexy, lovely, delicious stories in there.
By Shikha Aleya
June 1, 2018
What I learned about Self-Care and Wellbeing as a Sexuality Rights Activist
Working as a sexuality rights activist in a repressive environment can take a huge toll on people’s wellbeing. It is therefore important that we as social workers, activists, advocates and everyone else involved in this work take care, take care of ourselves and each other, be supportive, give that extra push to someone who needs it, and allow ourselves to make mistakes.
By Arpita Das
Brushstrokes: Aftercare
This is where ‘aftercare’ comes in – a practice of holistic caring and attention-giving to one’s partner post-sex.
By Curated Content
June 1, 2018
Mental Wellbeing and LGBT*QIA Identities
To us, these sessions illustrated a few of the ways in which wellbeing is tied to sexuality; experiencing or being a part of queer/LGBT*QIA+ spaces by itself leads to reflection, healing, catharsis, and empathy.
By Nazariya QFRG
June 1, 2018
Living with an invisible disability and seeking wellbeing
I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia around July last year. For those of you who do not know what Fibromyalgia is, it is a condition characterised by chronic pain spread over some tender points across the entire body.
By Rituparna Borah
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.
By TARSHI
May 15, 2018
Rekhti: The Language of Women as Spoken by Men
It’s an entire genre of poetry known as rekhti, which was characterised by a female speaker and preoccupation with women’s everyday lives.It is counter posed to rekhta, the “literature narrated in the masculine voice”.
By Syed Saad Ahmad
May 15, 2018
“HOMO” and Being Gay in Manipur
The Meitei queer’s tussle with sexuality continues to be a struggle jarred with discrimination, negation and moral policing through language.
By Davidson and Pavel
May 15, 2018
Brajabuli as a vehicle of queer desires: love songs in Rituparno Ghosh’s films
In my opinion, Ghosh was in search of a language of cinema which could be adequately expressive of queerness; he was slowly moving towards inventing that language, which would not be alienating to his conformist audiences, yet, would be intelligibly pleasurable to his (informed) queer viewers.
By Kaustav Bakshi
Reclaiming My Queerness: The Piecing-together of a Broken Childhood
As I reflect on what I had actively buried and tried to constantly forget, I realise how crucial language was in defining how I viewed myself.
By An kush
When ‘The Talk’ Is In Sign Language, There Is Clarity And Confusion
On a Saturday morning, a group of adults gather in a circle in an elementary school classroom on the campus…
By Curated Content
चर्चा का विषय – देखभाल, स्वयं की देखभाल और यौनिकता के बीच बोझिल संबंध
जब इन प्लेनस्पीक के संपादकों ने पहले-पहल मुझसे स्वयं की देखभाल और यौनिकता के विचार को साथ जोड़कर कुछ लिखने…
By Mamatha Karollil
Review: Risk-averse Bollywood Tackles Taboo Issues
Several recent mainstream Hindi films have dealt with issues of sexuality and gender not usually discussed in the intended audience’s drawing rooms.
By Shaifali Agrawal