Feminism
रेख़्ती – मर्दों द्वारा बोली गई औरतों की भाषा
उर्दू शायरी की एक पूरी शैली है, ‘रेख़्ती’, जो औरतों के नज़रिये से लिखी गई है और जिसमें औरतों की ज़िंदगी और भावनाओं की बात होती है। ये ‘रेख़्ता’ का उल्टा है, जो कि मर्द के नज़रिये से लिखा गया साहित्य है।
By Syed Saad Ahmad
March 18, 2024
Bridging the gaps in an evolving language
Fashion is a language that expresses survival, rebellion, freedom, visibility and invisibility, identity, representation and inclusion.
By Shikha Aleya
October 19, 2023
My Fashion and Gender Journey: How I discovered they are both fluid
How could I be trans if I didn’t tick off all the correct checkboxes demanded by politics, law, society and even the transgender community itself?
By Kirti
October 19, 2023
Brushstrokes: The Many Shades of Fashion
For many people, fashion serves as a vehicle for expressing their unique identities, their political beliefs, and their sexual orientation.
By Pragya Solanki
October 19, 2023
Video: Dress Reform Movement | Sky Cubacub
What if we refused to assimilate? What if we collectively decided to dress in a way that made it so society could not render us invisible?
By Curated Content
October 19, 2023
The Complex Tapestry of Fashion: Identity, Expression, and Feminism in a Women’s College
While women’s colleges are certainly a step ahead of other institutions in creating spaces of liberation and encouraging freedom of choice, this rare advantage must expand itself onto the landscape of our entire country.
By Devanshi Panda
How Not To Do Body Positivity Fashion
For women like me, there is an enormous lack of options in addition to the market that relegates us to a corner of ‘plus-size brands’
By Trijita
September 20, 2023
Androgyny is a Quality of the Mind
As clear as I was about my sexuality, I was just as unclear about how I wanted to look and what felt good.
By Debashree
September 20, 2023
Looking outside, seeing inside
I find that my own clothes are all just pieces of a larger archive I’m slowly constructing: an archive of the women I love, a half-hearted attempt at mimicking what I love.
September 20, 2023
To My 21-Year-Old Self
‘Is the future so dark?’ you might ask. I am here to tell you that it is not. As you begin your exploration into the world of queer theory and feminist theory, you will learn that the straightjacket version of sexuality cooked by our families was undercooked.
By Chand
August 25, 2023
Issue in Focus: The Heart of Being
To chase down our own vulnerabilities around sexuality is a short run around the corner, five minutes ago, last night sleeping alone, with a lover, a partner who lost interest, the Insta post that leaves you feeling you’re not good enough for the hug, the kiss, the cuddle and are you perhaps the A of LGBTQIA+?
By Shikha Aleya
January 3, 2023
Interview – Srila Roy
“Questions of difference should not be a cause for despair. There are examples from history and our own lives that show how we can connect across difference and stand in solidarity with one another…”
By Shikha Aleya
December 12, 2022
Interview – Tishani Doshi
I’ve essentially thought of movement as a kind of freedom, but one that has the capacity to destabilise you in some way. My most creative moments are when I’m not moving, when I am in fact rooted and still.
By Shikha Aleya
May 3, 2022
Masculinity, queer representation, and the motifs of movement in ‘Dedh Ishqiya’
The film has all the makings and trimmings of a commercial thriller – a dynamic story, song and dance, an action-packed climax – and at the same time, it is a cinephile’s film.
By Srishti Gupta
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
100 issues, 8 years! Thank you, dear readers and contributors! As we planned for this issue to put on our…
By TARSHI
March 15, 2022