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
September 18, 2024
Editorial – Workplaces and Sexuality
Interview – Parmesh Shahani
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Interview – Parmesh Shahani

The larger question is, who gets to bring all of themselves to the workplace, and who is either not allowed, or feels scared, or is bullied for doing so?
By Shikha Aleya
September 18, 2024
Interview – Parmesh Shahani
The Body at Work
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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
The Body at Work
Ensuring the Safety and Wellbeing of Frontline Workers: A Call to Action for On-Ground Organisations
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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
September 18, 2024
Ensuring the Safety and Wellbeing of Frontline Workers: A Call to Action for On-Ground Organisations
The Role of Digital Platforms as Workplaces: Sexual Expression and Harassment in the Virtual Realm
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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
September 18, 2024
The Role of Digital Platforms as Workplaces: Sexual Expression and Harassment in the Virtual Realm
What it Means to Read Now: Notes from a Librarian
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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
What it Means to Read Now: Notes from a Librarian
Glass Onion
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Glass Onion

It was not uncommon for me to feel like an imposter, helping others connect with themselves while struggling to do the same myself.
By Janice G.
September 18, 2024
Glass Onion
Waves of the Unseen
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Waves of the Unseen

The bathroom stall becomes a sanctuary, a stage, a confession booth.
By Radhika Modi
September 18, 2024
Waves of the Unseen
हैकर्स और ऊँची एड़ी के जूते
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हैकर्स और ऊँची एड़ी के जूते

काम और यौनिकता? इस तरह से देखें तो यह आपकी पूरी ज़िंदगी है।
By Shikha Aleya
September 18, 2024
हैकर्स और ऊँची एड़ी के जूते
Quick Bytes with Soumya Mishra
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Quick Bytes with Soumya Mishra

Sexuality is fluid, embodying my emotions, and their expression, thereby creating an aspect of my identity central to me.
By Soumya Mishra
September 18, 2024
Quick Bytes with Soumya Mishra
Video: Pride @ Godrej
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Video: Pride @ Godrej

Just this month, Godrej DEI Lab has launched a video, Pride @Godrej to celebrate Pride as a year-round commitment to…
By TARSHI
September 18, 2024
Video: Pride @ Godrej
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’
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