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The Time Machine – 5 In Plainspeak Articles that Celebrate Sexuality in its Diverse Forms!
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The Time Machine – 5 In Plainspeak Articles that Celebrate Sexuality in its Diverse Forms!

The In Plainspeak team decided to time travel and re-discover previously published articles that explore the multiple ways in which people find joy and pleasure in their sexualities.
By TARSHI
March 15, 2022
The Time Machine – 5 In Plainspeak Articles that Celebrate Sexuality in its Diverse Forms!
The Labor of Expressing Femininity as a Disabled Woman
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The Labor of Expressing Femininity as a Disabled Woman

The nature of the labor that goes into performing femininity is that it’s invisible. Or at least it’s supposed to be. As a culture, we expect women to look glossy and shimmery and smooth. We don’t want to know about the time and money that goes into this presentation.
By Curated Content
September 17, 2018
The Labor of Expressing Femininity as a Disabled Woman
The Editorial: Disability and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Disability and Sexuality

What can persons with disability do and not do? Can they have sex? Should they have sex? However well-intentioned they…
By TARSHI
August 1, 2014
The Editorial: Disability and Sexuality
The Editorial: Body and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Body and Sexuality

In one sense, the body is what I immediately am. In another sense, I am separated from it by the…
By TARSHI
June 17, 2015
The Editorial: Body and Sexuality
The Editorial: Accessibility and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Accessibility and Sexuality

We can speak of many situations in terms of access or its lack for all kinds of people, and it will always give us insight into the society we live in in two interdependent ways: one, it reveals a polarity between who is given and who is denied access, and two, it determines the big-picture human value given to the commodity that the access is contested for.
By TARSHI
August 16, 2017
The Editorial: Accessibility and Sexuality
The Challenge of Accessibility: Desire, Fantasy and People with Disabilities
Still from a Hindi film 'The Dirty Picture' (2011). A brown woman has open black hair, is wearing a black bindi, and a bright-coloured, deep-neck blouse. A man behind her is touching her waist. There are piles of oranges in the garden around them. They both are singing a song.
The Challenge of Accessibility: Desire, Fantasy and People with Disabilities

The general attitude towards sexual fantasy, and the reflection of such fantasies in popular imagery, erotica and erotic porn is constructed on assumptions of ableism. There are other fantasies though, that reflect or are born of the sexuality of their creators and consumers, persons who do not fit into the accepted age, body or sexual identity.
By Shikha Aleya
November 3, 2016
The Challenge of Accessibility: Desire, Fantasy and People with Disabilities
Sexy Crip Desires
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Sexy Crip Desires

Many disabled people in India live with their parents and any expression of sexuality is suppressed as a rule within the confines of their homes. Sexual desires of persons with disabilities are seldom a priority issue for families or civil society. More is said through silence than words. Be grateful that you are alive. Isn’t that enough?
By Abhishek Anicca
February 4, 2023
Sexy Crip Desires
Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Disabilities: The Long Road Ahead
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Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Disabilities: The Long Road Ahead

Motherhood is hallowed concept in Indian society – folklore and stories of branding women who do not bear a child…
By Shampa Sengupta
August 1, 2014
Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women with Disabilities: The Long Road Ahead
Sexless in the City (For No Fault of Mine)
A picture of disability rights activist Malini Chib sitting on a wheelchair. She is has black shoulder-length hair and is wearing glasses. Her top is white with black stripes and her trousers are black. The text beside her reads 'One Little Finger, Malini Chib'
Sexless in the City (For No Fault of Mine)

If a woman likes a man, she seduces him with her charm, wit and humour. This, I have seen, works….
By Malini Chib
August 1, 2014
Sexless in the City (For No Fault of Mine)
SEXLESS IN THE CITY (FOR NO FAULT OF MINE)
A picture of disability rights activist Malini Chib sitting on a wheelchair. She is has black shoulder-length hair and is wearing glasses. Her top is white with black stripes and her trousers are black. The text beside her reads 'One Little Finger, Malini Chib'
SEXLESS IN THE CITY (FOR NO FAULT OF MINE)

If a woman likes a man, she seduces him with her charm, wit and humour. This, I have seen, works….
By Malini Chib
December 1, 2014
SEXLESS IN THE CITY (FOR NO FAULT OF MINE)
Reviews: TARSHI Talks
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Reviews: TARSHI Talks

All clear…. no hush hush TARSHI Talks on ‘sexuality and relationships’ is such a welcome sea of information about sexes,…
By Shalini Khanna
August 1, 2014
Reviews: TARSHI Talks
Review: Scarlet Road
Review: Scarlet Road
August 1, 2014
Review: Scarlet Road
Relationship and companionship don’t exist in isolation
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Relationship and companionship don’t exist in isolation

It was very interesting to read Sexless in the City (For No Fault of Mine) by Malini Chib and the…
By Amrit Hallan
August 15, 2014
Relationship and companionship don’t exist in isolation
Reflections on accessibility and sexuality
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Reflections on accessibility and sexuality

I thought of myself as a feminist activist much before I formally entered the development sector space. I participated in…
By Shreshtha Das
August 16, 2017
Reflections on accessibility and sexuality
Reel Review: Of Sex and Desire: What Mark O’Brien Taught Me
Reel Review: Of Sex and Desire: What Mark O’Brien Taught Me
December 1, 2013
Reel Review: Of Sex and Desire: What Mark O’Brien Taught Me
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