Gender and Sexuality

Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree
Freeda performs Nazar ke Samne at Agaaz Theatre, Nizammudin, Delhi.
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree

Maraa means ‘tree’ in Kannada and it is the nature of a tree that we wish to embody, with strong roots, branches in different directions, growing tall but also wilting, dying and beginning again.
By Angarika Guha
October 17, 2024
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree
Loving Yourself
Close-up of purple and white heart shaped stones lying on the floor.
Loving Yourself

We carve strangers’ words onto our skin
like tattoos to be flaunted while hiding away
everything that we are from within.
By Aashi Singh
October 17, 2024
Loving Yourself
Interview – Chand
A photo of Chand dressed in a red sari with a white blouse, holding a mike on a stage and reading out from their phone.
Interview – Chand

Safe spaces in the way that they often circulate are depoliticised and the assumption is that there won’t be any conflicts, but there can be no safe space without an exchange of ideas, which will create some bad feelings leading to conflict.
By Akshita Singh and Pragya Solanki
November 19, 2024
Interview – Chand
Home-coming
sunlight passing through open windows
Home-coming

The morning was heavy, laden with the weight of expectation, with the unsettling realisation that something was about to shift.

By Niv, Vanshika Gupta, Anjani Chadha
November 19, 2024
Home-coming
Fragile Facts and Fearless Feelings
A close-up of a crocheted blanket formed of vibrant squares of knitted fabric.
Fragile Facts and Fearless Feelings

That little baby born in spring,
Shall “he” identify as Queer?
Regardless, Polaris feels queer!
By Khawahish Asha Kishor
November 19, 2024
Fragile Facts and Fearless Feelings
Find Yourself – A Triptych
The words Find and Yourself appear large in the centre of the illustration. Find has indents across the middle that makes it seem as though the letters are flowing into each other in order. Yourself has similar indentations flowing backwards. In the background we see several vaginal and sex toy shapes, further behind we see colourful blobs.
Find Yourself – A Triptych

As we grow and experience intimate relationships, pleasure becomes taboo or is only okay as a performance for another person, rather than our right as human beings.
By Suryaa Rajan
November 19, 2024
Find Yourself – A Triptych
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
Person holding stainless steel tong and cooking a roti on a tawa.
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy

Everyone talks about how nobody can put a price on how much homemakers do for us, but nobody talks about the kind of behaviour they are subjected to almost every day.

By Anuja Tripathy
November 19, 2024
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality
Four hands coming together from the four corners of the image to solve a multi-coloured jigsaw puzzle.
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality

Gender and sexuality are like constituent parts of a jigsaw puzzle that keeps morphing in such a way that nothing ever ‘fits’ for long, and the game begins anew each time.
By TARSHI
November 19, 2024
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
water drops on water base
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging

Who gets to imagine this utopian sociality, or future, of the queer movement?

By Susmit Panzade
October 17, 2024
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
Badminton Court
Two white badminton feather shuttlecocks resting on some plants in a dark and moody colour grading.
Badminton Court

Do you know what it feels like to be seen? I also don’t know what it feels like to be properly heard, but that’s a question for another time.
By Sakshi Nain Bishnoi
November 19, 2024
Badminton Court
A small slice of Gender & Sexuality feels like this!
Close-up Photo of People wearing Pride Colored Socks.
A small slice of Gender & Sexuality feels like this!

Here’s to some quiet time listening in to what people are saying, and consuming, on the Internet, particularly on social media, on the subject of gender and sexuality.
By Shikha Aleya
November 19, 2024
A small slice of Gender & Sexuality feels like this!
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