CSE
Interview: Diversity and Sexuality – Part 2
Here, in Part 2, each interviewee addresses aspects of sexuality and diversity from their own particular space of personal knowledge, as well as work, advocacy, art and activism across diverse fields.
By Shikha Aleya
May 15, 2019
Engaging With Diversity and Sexuality in Education
From my experiences, I find that diversity is not an end unto itself. Instead, it is a tool for reflection, a mirror that shows not only who we, and the society we live in, are in the present, but what we aspire to be in the future.
By Dana Burton
Beauty Dictated; Beauty Discovered
Should we train it to think well, all these minds would see reason in similar things and they would come up with the same absolute reality – a universal Truth. That Truth would be a reflection of the Natural order for all humankind. That Truth alone would be beautiful.
By Shweta Krishnan
October 1, 2018
WHAT HAS COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION GOT TO DO WITH CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE?
When working with parents on child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention, I often get asked the question, “How old should my…
By Alankaar Sharma
The Editorial: Fiction and Sexuality
For many of us, it was fiction that fed our souls as children, and now as adults who are still ‘growing up’, it feeds us still. Fiction makes, remakes and unmakes us who walk in worlds of the imagination. It liberates us to dream various versions of ourselves and others into being as the articles in this month’s In Plainspeak eloquently reveal.
By TARSHI
September 15, 2017
“What Is Oral Sex” My 12-Year-Old Asked. I Shook Off Terror.
On a cold winter evening, watching a tense India vs England cricket match when your about-to-be teenager asks you these questions, you want go deep under cover inside that blanket and never come out. Not possible, of course. I see myself as the quintessential modern day mom, pal to her kids, cool, unflappable.
By Curated Content
April 18, 2017
We Need More Sexuality Education in Nepal
There has been so much discourse about sex and sexuality education all over the world that I perhaps may not…
By Kamal Gautam
December 16, 2016
Learning to Be an Honest Parent
One of the very first stories my daughter wanted to be told was how she was born. It was easy for me because I had a caesarean section but I knew that at some point I had to share with her that children come out of the vagina.
By Venu Arora
October 17, 2016
एक नारीवादी माँ के रूप में जेंडर और यौनिकता पर बात करना : मामले को और भी पेचीदा कर देता है
सामान्य तौर पर एक नारीवादी माँ का काम, जो रोज़मर्रा की चर्चा में यौनिकता के बारे में बात करने के लिए दृढ संकल्पी हो, अनिश्चितता से भरा है। अन्य नारीवादी दोस्तों के साथ बातचीत और संसाधनों जैसे तारशी की अभिभावकों के लिए लिखी गई उत्कृष्ठ किताब द यलो बुक से उत्पन्न मेरी रणनीति है कि सवालों का ठीक-ठीक जवाब देना, जब भी वे पूछे जाएँ। हालाँकि, मुझे उम्र के हिसाब से जानकारी देना सीखने में समय लगा।
By Shilpa Phadke
Nothing for us without us: Young People and Development
There are many mechanism, agendas and processes such as the post-2015 mechanism in development to ensure gender equality and ‘to…
By Sarah Soysa
September 1, 2015
INTERVIEW: SEXUALITY AND ADOLESCENTS
Our interview section this month features excerpts from three of our past interviews on issues in dealing with adolescent sexuality:…
By TARSHI Team
August 1, 2015
‘I Am A Woman, And I Masturbate. Stop Demonising Me For It’
By Nishtha Relan This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. I have faint memories of…
By Curated Content
February 17, 2015
It Takes A Community To Protect A Child
[slideshow_deploy id=’5400′] TULIR uses these posters in their advocacy work to prevent sexual violence against children. These posters address children…
By TULIR CPHCSA
February 15, 2015
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
Laws, Consent and Implications for CSE
Providing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) remains one of the most contested and complex issues within the sexual and reproductive health…
By Rupsa Mallik
June 1, 2014