Review

Review: What Sex Work Taught Feminism: Tales of the Night Fairies
Two sex workers standing and talking outside a chawl. They both are dressed in sarees, and are wearing a red bindi on their forehead.
Review: What Sex Work Taught Feminism: Tales of the Night Fairies

Note: Five sex workers – four women and one man – along with the filmmaker/narrator embark on a journey of storytelling. Shohini Ghosh’s Tales of the Night Fairies explores the power of collective organising and resistance while reflecting upon contemporary debates around sex work. The labyrinthine city of Kolkata (Calcutta) forms the backdrop for personal and musical journeys.
By Moulshri Mohan
April 18, 2016
Review: What Sex Work Taught Feminism: Tales of the Night Fairies
Review: The Gaysi Zine is Envelope-Pushing, Occasionally Flawed, and Gorgeous
Painting of a woman sitting on a WC in a bathroom.
Review: The Gaysi Zine is Envelope-Pushing, Occasionally Flawed, and Gorgeous

At the Delhi launch of the fourth edition of The Gaysi Zine, on January 21st at Max Mueller Bhavan, a…
By Guest Writer
February 1, 2016
Review: The Gaysi Zine is Envelope-Pushing, Occasionally Flawed, and Gorgeous
Review: The Absurdities of Sexy and Funny Women
Comedian Aditi Mittal speaking into a mike.
Review: The Absurdities of Sexy and Funny Women

At the now infamous All India Bakchod Knockout roast last year, comedian Aditi Mittal told this joke about her fellow…
By Kristin Francoeur
January 4, 2016
Review: The Absurdities of Sexy and Funny Women
Book Review: Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India
Book cover. A baby resting on her mother's torso and shoulder looks wide-eyed at the camera. Title of the book "Birth in the age of AIDS" is written in red on top of the photo, and the subtitle "Women, reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India" is written in red at the bottom. Screen reader support enabled. Book cover. A baby resting on her mother's torso and shoulder looks wide-eyed at the camera. Title of the book "Birth in the age of AIDS" is written in red on top of the photo, and the subtitle "Women, reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India" is written in red at the bottom.
Book Review: Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India

Cecilia Van Hollen’s 2013 ethnography (published by Stanford University Press) of low caste, low-income women living with HIV in Tamil…
By Kristin Francoeur
December 1, 2015
Book Review: Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India
Book Review: Come As You Are
Book cover with white background. Line drawing of a woman from waist to thighs, naked. On top is written the author's name in black "Emily Nayoski". Below it in red in cursive is written, "COME as you are".
Book Review: Come As You Are

You should venture to read Emily Nagoski’s book, Come As You Are in public. Not because you want to make…
By Shweta Krishnan
November 15, 2015
Book Review: Come As You Are
Review: East Side Sushi (2015)
Sushi on a white plate.
Review: East Side Sushi (2015)

Time: 1hr 47min In English, Spanish and Japanese, with English subtitles “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if…
By Kristin Francoeur
October 1, 2015
Review: East Side Sushi (2015)
Progress towards universal access to SRHR: A review of the MDGs and the SDGs
Woman wearing a pink and blue Indian suit sitting cross-legged on floor, with a toddler on her lap. The baby is wearing a yellow shirt and red shorts. Behind them on the wall are both the English and Hindi alphabets.
Progress towards universal access to SRHR: A review of the MDGs and the SDGs

The year 2015 is a momentous year as it marks the target date for reporting the achievements of the Millennium…
By Sai Jyothirmai Racherla
September 15, 2015
Progress towards universal access to SRHR: A review of the MDGs and the SDGs
Review: Sexuality in Moral Science and Adolescent Education Textbooks
Black and white drawing of a young boy whistling. Around him is written "drugs", "alcohol", "love affair", "dirty jokes", "cigarettes", "AIDS" in clockwise direction. With each of these words is drawn a representation of that word.
Review: Sexuality in Moral Science and Adolescent Education Textbooks

Textbook Regimes: A Feminist Critique of Nation and Identity is a book published by Nirantar that explores the linkages between…
By Nirantar
August 1, 2015
Review: Sexuality in Moral Science and Adolescent Education Textbooks
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility
Still from film 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns'. A woman and a man in a wedding. The man holds a baby wrapped in a white cloth in his arms. The woman wears a red Indian suit, red bangles, and has open hair. The man wears a red turban and golden kurta.
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility

What does Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015) have in common with Perumal Murugan’s controversial book, One Part Woman (2013)? Stories on emasculation…
By Shweta Krishnan
July 1, 2015
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility
Films of Desire/Bodies of Desire
Still from the film 'Margarita with a Straw' showing actress Kalki Koechlin being given a bath by actress Revathy
Films of Desire/Bodies of Desire

The Church says: the body is a sin Science says: the body is a machine Advertising says: the body is…
By Geetanjali Misra
June 1, 2015
Films of Desire/Bodies of Desire
Review: Family and Sexuality on the Internet
Screenshot of a website called 'Parents.com' which shows a family - a man, a woman and a child leaning on them
Review: Family and Sexuality on the Internet

I am attempting to review public conversation for and by the Indian family on Family and Sexuality on the Internet….
By Shikha Aleya
May 1, 2015
Review: Family and Sexuality on the Internet
Man, His Madness, and the Mad Woman
Collage of posters of three films - Omkara, Maqbool and Haider. The first poster shows a man and woman embracing, the second shows a man intimately caressing the head of a woman and the thirs shows a man holding up a human skull
Man, His Madness, and the Mad Woman

Mad adj. crazy, nuts, loony, mental, insane. adj. angry, frustrated, raging. No one is a better drama queen than William…
By Shweta Krishnan
April 1, 2015
Man, His Madness, and the Mad Woman
Hunting and Devouring Erotica
Book cover. Painting of the back of a woman, naked. Over it is written in blue and cursive, "blue". Below it in white, "the tranquebar book of erotic stories from Sri Lanka".
Hunting and Devouring Erotica

When I was working on finalising my dissertation topic during my Masters, I was quite apprehensive about what I would…
By Deepa Ranganathan
March 1, 2015
Hunting and Devouring Erotica
Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute
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Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute

I recently had the wonderful opportunity of attending the seven-day Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute (SGRI)* organised by Delhi-based organisation…
By Deepa Ranganathan
February 15, 2015
Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute
Review: TARSHI’s Orange Book
Book cover. "The Orange Book" written in orange, and "A teacher's workbook on sexuality education" as its subtitle written in black below it on a white background. The box with the white background takes the centre of the book, the remaining part of the book is coloured orange.
Review: TARSHI’s Orange Book

TARSHI’s ‘The Orange Book : A Teacher’s Workbook on Sexuality‘, ensures that we acknowledge the presence of the ‘elephant in…
By Simran Luthra
February 1, 2015
Review: TARSHI’s Orange Book
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