Voices
The Invisible Feminism in Freud?
Should it have been a full stop or a question mark that finished the above title? It deeply confused me….
By Tanisha Chadha
April 15, 2015
Finding Hope At The Other End Of The Line: Stories from AASRA’s Helpline For Suicide Prevention
I run an NGO called AASRA, a 24×7 crisis intervention center for the depressed and suicidal. Day in and day…
By Johnson Thomas
Equality of Sex In a Relationship
“At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to…
By Sonal Sood
April 1, 2015
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
Forced into illness!
For long, a major section of our population considered people belonging to sexual ‘minorities’ as being mentally ill. They believed…
By Almas Shamim
April 1, 2015
India’s Daughter: When Men Come Together, But Women Stand Divided
Two weeks before India’s Daughter made it to the headlines, I came across this new pledge for Delhi school kids,…
By Shweta Krishnan
Voices: Unscripted
She leans over casually, across me, and rummages in her bag for a moment. I push away the spark of…
By Sami S
March 16, 2015
“Don’t let your foot slip!” : Messages On ‘Appropriate’ Femininity By School Teachers In Mumbai
“In Hindi, though there is a word for rape (balaatkaar), it is rarely used by women. Instead they say izzat…
By Juhi Sidharth
Male Gaze? What About Some Disco Balls?
I recently attended a talk titled ‘Streeshakti’ at the Jaipur Literature Festival. One of the speakers Lata Sharma, a Rajasthani…
March 1, 2015
Desire and Sexuality Education: Teaching about Romance, Love, Infatuation and Other Such Attractions
Sexuality Education is not only about Sexual and Reproductive Health, but ideally also aims to address the question of adolescent…
By Ketaki Chowkhani
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes
No matter how many optional ways I’ve considered for starting this piece, I keep returning to ‘hot’ and ‘masala’. I’ve…
By Shikha Aleya
February 1, 2015
Songs of the Caravan…Journey of the Spirit : India’s First Audio Album Sung by Transgender Women
Music is a universal language. It has no gender. It belongs to everyone. For certain communities’ music has been a…
By Anubhav Gupta
“The more you confine me, the more I will spill over”
The collection Wild Girls, Wicked Words is an anthology of poetry translated from Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom. The collection contains…
By Vasugi Kailasam
January 1, 2015
PROVIDING SEXUAL SERVICES TO CLIENTS WITH DISABILITY
I’ve been a sex worker for over 20 years. I’m a migrant sex worker based in Sydney, Australia but have…
By Rachel Wotton
December 1, 2014