Voices
Sign Language, Language, Sexuality and Innovation
In a recent class, I asked Kanika and Tincy, our ISL teachers, how we could sign sexuality, and they asked, “How do you explain sexuality?” I wondered how I could sign ideas like attraction, pleasure, gender, values, and so on, but tried nevertheless, using my limited vocabulary, apologetic about being reductive.
By Vani Viswanathan
August 14, 2020
I May Have Called You Baby But It Doesn’t Mean I Want One!
Some nights I worry that if birth control for men is indeed released, clinical trials of which were suspended in 2016 as its side effects, incidentally the same as what women have been dealing with for ages, were just not worth it, it would be named Fuckboi.
By Anjali
August 14, 2020
Journey from Stigma to Pleasure
For a long time, female bodies were considered similar to male bodies, just shorter, and most research and medical trials focused primarily on the male body with the assumption that the same would work on the female body.
By Pooja Singh and Ramneek Banga
August 14, 2020
The Mask of Age
As advocates of safe, inclusive and sexuality-affirming spaces, we can explore different ways to ensure that the people we are interacting with on dating platforms are legal adults and are not merely wearing a mask of adulthood.
By Andy Stephen Silveira
August 3, 2020
Technically, thanks to the techies
It is rather edifying to find information that one can relate to through a solitary rectangular box. Over time, this solitary box somehow stuck around while everything around it changed as the world moved even further into a digital era.
By Srishti Sarkar
August 3, 2020
A class on porn, anyone?
It’s technology that has allowed me, amidst the lockdown, to connect with so many people and I dare say, sext and share photos. It’s technology that has allowed me and many others access to things like porn, fetish websites, and to buy sex toys and so much more without leaving our beds!
By Abdullah Erikat
August 3, 2020
A Garden of One’s Own
Therapy is a space to heal and grow. It helped me to accept my identity as an anxious, cisgender, South Asian, bisexual woman. Moreover, I have come up with the perfect response next time someone asks me, “But why do you think you are bisexual?”
By Poorva Parashar
August 3, 2020
Adolescence: A tumultuous time in my life
Experiences and learnings from the immediate surroundings such as the school and the family leave a deep impact on the…
By Arzoo
July 15, 2020
Reel vs Real: Lessons from the Netflix series, Sex Education
I finally got around to watching Laurie Nunn’s debut series Sex Education that premiered in 2019 on Netflix. With its…
By Isha Vajpeyi
How would it be if we grew up embracing sexuality?
Growing up is a tedious task in our society because of the institutionalised practices, societal constructs and boxed identities and…
By Sreejani
July 15, 2020
Why is it difficult to say, “I’m bisexual”?
Being an adolescent is never easy. It is the beginning of one’s life journey to answering the ultimate existential question:…
By Shaleen Chrisanne
July 1, 2020
Young People and Sexuality – The perspective of two queer allies
As we sat down brainstorming about what course we were going to take next for As You Are (AYA –…
By Aditi and Sunali
Poems by Nhylar
1. A Certain Type of Life since the age of 16 I idealised a certain type of life involving certain…
By Nhylar
July 1, 2020
Challenges to right to life and wellness of being: queer lives in the COVID-19 pandemic in India
New losses, new challenges Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, whose love affair with Lota de Macedo Soares…
By Kaustav Bakshi
Sexy Times Survey: Preliminary Results
TARSHI has been running a survey (we’re still accepting responses) to understand how people feel about their sexual lives during the…
By TARSHI Team
June 1, 2020