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Interview – Sameera Khan
But what has been amazing to witness is how quickly young women in particular, took to the ideas of Why Loiter? and pushed them even further, creating new movements to expand women’s rights to the public, including the right to be out late at night, to stretch the curfew at women’s hostels, to demand extended access to women’s toilets, to public transport etc.
By Shikha Aleya
April 1, 2022
A ‘Room’ of One’s Own – Sexuality, Self-expression, and Safe Spaces on Clubhouse
In theory, the concept of the app is a great one – it provides women, queer people, and people belonging to oppressed castes the tea-stall, cigarette-shop type of public spaces for conversation that are available to upper-caste cis het men. The relative anonymity acts like a safe cover, and the app affords a certain autonomy and agency to marginalised people to regulate the kind of conversation that goes on in rooms moderated by them.
By Srishti Gupta
Looking For Someone To Talk To
I would say that growing up in a small village would make it difficult to find love or companionship, but I have since moved to a city and found that it was difficult to find love there, too. It did not stop me from trying, though.
By Wesley D'Souza
April 1, 2022
Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces
While sex workers face repeated harassment by the police, many young couples face threats in a one-off incident if the police finds them with their partner/lover. They may face police surveillance of expressions of intimacy and affection in public.
By Shruti Arora
April 1, 2022
The Gendered Muscle in Gym Spaces
I can recall my experiences in the washrooms of different gyms that I have been a member of. A men’s washroom is an interesting place in terms of how sexuality manifests itself in its various aspects. It was not unusual to see men of various kinds with strange energies in these washrooms.
By Shiva Chauhan
April 1, 2022
The Construction of Women as Spaces
This article explores how women are constructed as a ‘space’ manufactured by men to seek comfort, but void of having any active agency or participation in that space itself. I seek to bring this out in this article by drawing a parallel between the nineteenth century ‘Bharat Mata’ (Mother India) and the depiction of the twenty-first century ‘heroine’ in Bollywood movies.
By Tanvi Chattoraj
April 1, 2022
Brushstrokes: Queering the Map
How can we envision a queer approach that counters exclusionary practices? Queering the Map, launched in 2017 by Canadian designer…
By Curated Content
April 1, 2022
Video: Queering Public Space
How can we queer public spaces and what does it actually take? Can a particular kind of lighting, or adding…
By Curated Content
April 1, 2022
यौनिकता व सामाजिक वर्गभेद – ऑनलाइन माध्यमों की बदलाव लाने की क्षमता
डिजिटल माध्यमों तक पहुँच आसान हो जाने से उपेक्षित वर्ग भी अब यौनिकता से जुड़ी सामग्री को देखने, पढ़ने और तैयार कर पाने में सक्षम हुए हैं और इस तरह की जानकारी तक पहुँच पाने में उनके सामने पहले आने वाली कठिनाईयाँ अब दूर होती नज़र आ रही है।
By Rupsa Mallik
मेरी खता नहीं – सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर मेरा भी अधिकार
बदलाव का एक निर्माण खंड कुछ ऐसे उदहारण प्रस्तुत करना है कि सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर लोगों का सकारात्मक व्यवहार कैसा होना चाहिए | उन्हें देख कर पता चलता है कि किस तरह समुदाय के सभी लोग – चाहे मित्र हों या परिचित – कैसे सौहार्दपूर्वक प्रगतिशील जीवन जीते हैं।
By Yuleidy Merida
April 1, 2022
समीक्षा: रेनबो रौवेल के उपन्यास फैनगर्ल में फैनडम का समस्यात्मक प्रदर्शन
कैथ के किरदार और उसके जीवन को दिखाया जाना वास्तव में उन अनगिनत फैनगर्ल्स के प्रति अन्याय ही कहा जाएगा जो एक फैन के रूप में अपनी पहचान को अपने वास्तविक सामाजिक और यौनिक जीवन व रुझानों पर कभी भी हावी नहीं होने देती।
By Rohini Banerjee
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
100 issues, 8 years! Thank you, dear readers and contributors! As we planned for this issue to put on our…
By TARSHI
March 15, 2022
Dancing around each other: Conversations with a Tween
As a generation X-er I grew up in a world that was challenging sexuality but only encountered the instability of gender as an adult in radical new academic texts which were not then yet part of our everyday narratives. My daughter born between Gen Z and Gen Alpha is growing up in a world of gender fluidity and multiple pronouns.
By Shilpa Phadke
March 15, 2022
Refusing the weight in waiting
As a girl, I was made to believe that pleasure was something that existed outside my body, something that I had to seek out, something that was necessarily a product of a partnered experience. I don’t think I was even allowed to want pleasure, especially in its sexual forms.
By Aathira Gopi
March 15, 2022
The Time Machine – 5 In Plainspeak Articles that Celebrate Sexuality in its Diverse Forms!
The In Plainspeak team decided to time travel and re-discover previously published articles that explore the multiple ways in which people find joy and pleasure in their sexualities.
By TARSHI