Workplaces and Sexuality

Editorial – Workplaces and Sexuality
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Editorial – Workplaces and Sexuality

Sexuality and the workplace are closely related, and a safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental human right.
By TARSHI
August 20, 2024
Editorial – Workplaces and Sexuality
What is this thing, the workplace?
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What is this thing, the workplace?

We need to expand the way we look at work, the workplace and the human being, understanding our approach to sexuality, society and each other.
By Shikha Aleya
August 20, 2024
What is this thing, the workplace?
Job Description: Break into the Boys’ Club
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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
Job Description: Break into the Boys’ Club
Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance
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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
August 20, 2024
Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance
Bridging ‘inside’ and ‘outside’
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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 ‘inside’ and ‘outside’
एकल जीवन की सराहना
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एकल जीवन की सराहना

Growing up, for me, has been about accepting that the loneliness and sadness woven into the fabric of my being do not go away with entering conventional arrangements like monogamous relationships or marriage.
By Siddhi Pandey
August 20, 2024
एकल जीवन की सराहना
सेक्स वर्क ने नारीवाद को क्या सिखाया – एक समीक्षा ‘टेल्स ऑफ़ द नाइट फेरीज़’ की
A poster for the film Tales of the Night Fairies.
सेक्स वर्क ने नारीवाद को क्या सिखाया – एक समीक्षा ‘टेल्स ऑफ़ द नाइट फेरीज़’ की

Tales delicately yet powerfully draws out the conflict between sex workers and feminism in India,at a time when a lot of feminists thought of prostitution through a SWERF lens[1].
By Moulshri Mohan
August 20, 2024
सेक्स वर्क ने नारीवाद को क्या सिखाया – एक समीक्षा ‘टेल्स ऑफ़ द नाइट फेरीज़’ की
साक्षात्कार – माया शर्मा
साक्षात्कार – माया शर्मा

In this interview with Shikha Aleya, Maya speaks with a deep knowledge of ground realities about the increasing informalisation of labour and its implications for gender and sexuality, and about what labour rights and inclusion mean in real terms.
By Shikha Aleya
August 20, 2024
साक्षात्कार – माया शर्मा