Voices
What it Means to Read Now: Notes from a Librarian
What are the acts of reading that we allow young people, that we allow each other? And what does that say about the worlds we want and need?
By Zoya Chadha
September 18, 2024
Job Description: Break into the Boys’ Club
I was recently speaking to a senior PSU (Public Sector Undertaking) official who has worked in the same office for…
By Gitanjali
August 20, 2024
Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance
“A woman’s place is in the kitchen.” Most of us born in female-designated bodies, in a country like India, have…
By Silpi Bhaumik
Bridging ‘inside’ and ‘outside’
We cannot build safe spaces for ‘communities’ we work with, without having those safe spaces built for those who work within the organisation.
By Meenu Vadera
August 20, 2024
Queering and Transing (as) Failure
I am out. A postcard from a stranger that I imagine to be queer or trans*[1] or both tells me…
By Cat D
July 22, 2024
The Unqueer Classroom
I remember realising that ‘gender’ was a construct when I was 9 or so, that it wasn’t real. I was…
By Aradhana Phadke Sardesai
July 22, 2024
A Work in Progress
Parenting is an odd space. It comes chock full of all kinds of normative strictures and regulations.
By Shilpa Phadke
July 22, 2024
Queering Konkani, My Mother Tongue
When the hunk of a football player kicks the football, it swerves towards the right and bounces off the goalpost…
By Andy Stephen Silveira
July 22, 2024
Embracing a Queer Second Adolescence
To queer something is to disrupt normative frameworks, to imagine and create new modes of being (Pirani & Daskalopoulou, 2022)….
By Srividya Mehendale
July 22, 2024
Queering the Paradigm: Dismantling Politics, Power, and Privilege
Queering, as a theoretical and practical approach, has emerged as a powerful means of challenging and dismantling established politics, power…
By Lipun Kumar Sanbad
Revisiting Ctrl Alt Swipe Right: Sex, Sexuality and the Internet in India
Looking back at this piece, written seven years ago, the core issues that I identified then remain significant and relevant….
By Siddharth Narrain
राख से सोना बनाना – कैसे मध्यम आयु वर्ग की महिलाएं यौनिकता और आध्यात्मिकता का जश्न मनाती हैं
The most satisfying spiritual and sexual experiences I’ve had were not in my twenties, thirties or even forties. They have been in my 50’s. The most insightful spiritual insights, and the most orgasmic orgasms have both arrived in middle age.
By Nighat Gandhi
A Queer Art of Longing
Like failure, longing is not interested in happy endings – whether of straight or non-heterosexual relations.
By Ketan Jain
June 18, 2024
Queer and Quarantine
How did isolation work for those of us who are already quarantined in perpetuity by the cis-heteronormative gaze?
By Raju Behara
June 18, 2024
A Journey of Unfolding
My identity unfolded slowly during my postgraduate media studies course, where I was exposed to peers from different socio-economic backgrounds.
By Apoorva Ravi
June 18, 2024