Voices
The Body at Work
It is evident that the workplace is not just a site for economic production but also a space where bodies are shaped, controlled, and violated.
By Shivani Rajan
September 18, 2024
Ensuring the Safety and Wellbeing of Frontline Workers: A Call to Action for On-Ground Organisations
Frontline workers, often recruited from the communities organisations work with, face heightened risks to their health, safety, and wellbeing as their work extends beyond the walls of an office.
By Shilpa Nair
The Role of Digital Platforms as Workplaces: Sexual Expression and Harassment in the Virtual Realm
Moving from the broader implications of the digital workspace it is essential to discuss specifically how these platforms influence the exploration of sexual identity.
By Yash Singh Sisodiya
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