Voices
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
Chahat Chowk: Reaching Out to Women
Attempting to talk about sexual health in an urban environment like Gurgaon is a bit like trying to pierce an…
By Arti Jaiman
July 15, 2015
Centring the Margins: Sex workers continue to battle for identity, entitlements and dignity after COVID-19
Ensuring the protection of sex workers’ physical and emotional wellbeing, as well as safeguarding their rights to life, profession, labour freedom, health, and reproductive and sexual rights is fundamental within a constitutional democratic society.
By Kuhika and Meher
Centring the margins: Sex workers battle for identity, entitlements and dignity in Covid-19
When peeking into the universe of sex work, it is imperative to locate the various identities sex workers live with,…
By Kuhika and Meher
CATAMITE
On the other hand, in Abhay’s newly discovered wonderland, everything seemed to be awfully right. Soon, he began receiving proposals for sex-dates. Initially such proposals shocked him; for it took him a few months to get used to the fact that sex with men was only a click away.
By Kaustav Bakshi
October 5, 2020
Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing
In March 2015, a popular Indian comic, Abish Mathew, performed at a college festival at the National Law University (NLU)…
By Noopur Raval
January 4, 2016
Cashless and Stranded in Budhwar Peth: How the 2016 Demonetisation Affected Sex Workers
The disruptions in sex work due to demonetisation were not merely about the cash crunch though. Probing deeper, the real problems were to do with a breakdown in the rituals of soliciting, and what it meant behaviourally for the women.
By Sutapa Majumdar and Rohini Sahni
Caring and care-giving
Just as capitalism has learned how to co-opt feminism into its model, it has done the same to ‘wellness’, so much so it has become an industry of its own. Mental wellbeing, no matter how necessary and important it is, remains a luxury with more than half of our country either unaware of available mental health resources or not in a position to even afford therapy.
By Deepa Ranganathan
July 5, 2021
Canon Law and Queer Believers
I am going to share a personal queer reading to help put forth what I mean. One day, while I was reading the gospel of John for my family, the final words of Jesus, made me wonder whether Jesus could have been gay.
By Roshan Roy
September 1, 2020
Can’t We Anticipate Stonewall?
If your one step – addressed to everyone irrespective of caste, class, gender, religion, and sexuality – is a giant leap for marginalised and oppressed people, Stonewall will not be far behind.
By Anupom Kumar Hazarika
July 2, 2018
Building Solidarity Amongst Diverse and Marginalised Communities at SANGRAM, Sangli: Part 2
This is the second part in a two-part series on SANGRAM’s work in Sangli. Read the first part here. Finding…
By SANGRAM
Building Solidarity amongst Diverse and Marginalised Communities at SANGRAM, Sangli: Part 1
A gradual process of inclusion; engaging and understanding exclusion In 1992, health and human rights NGO, SANGRAM, recognised the need…
By SANGRAM
Building Resilience from Memories
By creating a safe space to discuss these issues [of sexual abuse] and acknowledging these experiences, we can find a way to address the root cause and move forward in our healing process.
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
April 2, 2018
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
BRIDGING THE GAP: IDEAS FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION PROGRAMME
A 22-year-old autistic young man with low intellectual functioning I work with, recently got into trouble with the police because…
By Ankita Khanna