Categories
I Column : Fiction and Sexuality
What is fiction? Is it born of reality? Or does it birth reality, reflecting it back at me until I see the things I do not see? Until I find the person that is me? Until I dance my horse dance under moon, under stars, in a room full of people who like horse dancing just as much as they like the swirly skirt and the pot-bellied person doing the Bhangra.
By Shikha Aleya
September 1, 2017
Video Page: Sita sings the Blues
Sita Sings the Blues is an animated retelling of the Ramayana, an ancient Indian epic about the Hindu god Rama…
By Curated Content
September 1, 2017
Interview: Shohini Ghosh
Both fiction and non-fiction are capable of great complexity if the making is in the hands of someone capable and complex. I have always held that good films – fiction, non-fiction or hybrid– emerge not from a familiarity with the subject, though that’s essential – but an understanding of the language of cinema.
By Radhika Chandiramani
September 1, 2017
Brushstrokes: Indian Teen Artist Reimagines Goddesses As Modern-Day Feminists
Bringing to life five goddesses from across the world, 17-year-old Priyanka Paul from India has used illustration to reimagine these…
By Curated Content
The Editorial: Accessibility and Sexuality
We can speak of many situations in terms of access or its lack for all kinds of people, and it will always give us insight into the society we live in in two interdependent ways: one, it reveals a polarity between who is given and who is denied access, and two, it determines the big-picture human value given to the commodity that the access is contested for.
By TARSHI
August 16, 2017
Reflections on accessibility and sexuality
I thought of myself as a feminist activist much before I formally entered the development sector space. I participated in…
By Shreshtha Das
August 16, 2017
चुनौती पहुँच की – इच्छाएँ, कल्पनाएँ और विकलांगता के साथ रह रहे लोग
प्रत्येक फैंटसी या कल्पना एक बेहद ही निजी अनुभव होती है, भले ही यह मन में ही रखी जाए या दूसरों को बतायी…
By Shikha Aleya
Smart Bangle that Raises Maternal Health
Researchers have developed a high-tech bangle that notifies women of toxic fumes, in hopes of boosting maternal health in South…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Striving to get information about my body
As a 17 year old who grew up in a relatively liberal Indian household, I should probably be proud of…
By Zoya Achanta
August 16, 2017
From the periphery to the core: How can we hear more women’s voices from rural India?
Neha is a proud, beaming 16-year-old. Standing on the lawns outside Delhi’s India Gate, she speaks to the camera about…
By Gram Vaani
Brushtrokes: Queering Bombay’s Public Spaces
This article/photo essay was originally published in Gaysi Family. In a society that heavily restricts expressions of sexuality, openly asserting…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Poem of desire and (dis)ability
they say my body is broken they look at me with pity but little do they know when i scream…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Three must-watch documentaries about disability
The First International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities was recently organised by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
By Anonymous for Cake: A while back, when I was toying with the idea of coming out to my parents…
By Curated Content
Accessing Safer Sex – what does it mean to have access to exploring and enjoying your sexuality safely?
The discourse on safer sex is usually couched in medical language– protection from STIs and unwanted pregnancies are what supposedly…
By Unnimaya Kurup