humour

Issue In Focus: A Travelling Sexuality
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Issue In Focus: A Travelling Sexuality

Travel and sexuality throws up different thoughts and feelings for us all. For me, it threw up the term travelling sexuality. I like it. Travelling sexuality. It sounds exotic or intellectual, adventurous, dangerous, depending on who you are and how you live life. A travelling sexuality could describe the way we evolve as sexual beings, shifting and changing identities.
By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2016
Issue In Focus: A Travelling Sexuality
Issue in Focus
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Issue in Focus

Humour, either openly, or thinly camouflaged, is a combination of the intellectual, spiritual, emotional, physical nature of being. So quite often, anger, anxiety, aggression, wisdom, love, frustration, wickedness, cruelty, sarcasm and other feelings are a big part.
By Shikha Aleya
May 4, 2023
Issue in Focus
Interview – Radhika Vaz
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Interview – Radhika Vaz

I think we are still in a trap of a heteronormative, youth biased, light skin biased, sizeist, ableist culture and until we consciously snap out of it we are throwing a cloak over a human being’s ability to really find what their sexuality even looks like.
By Shikha Aleya
May 4, 2023
Interview – Radhika Vaz
Interview – Prarthana Prasad
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Interview – Prarthana Prasad

Entertainment should aim to inspire, comfort, reflect and express. Even if something violent earns big at the box office, it doesn’t justify its creation.
By Shikha Aleya
February 15, 2024
Interview – Prarthana Prasad
I never liked your beanie
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I never liked your beanie

I only ever read your letters
to learn what patterns to avoid
in future relationships.
By Hritvika Lakhera
May 4, 2023
I never liked your beanie
Editorial – Humour and Sexuality
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Editorial – Humour and Sexuality

Humour makes us feel good, relaxes us, lubricates social interactions, and often allows us to see things in new ways. Who doesn’t love a good belly laugh? However, what tickles your funny bone may be very different from what tickles mine.
By TARSHI
May 17, 2023
Editorial – Humour and Sexuality
Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing
Abish Matthew in a white shirt and black coat speaking into ear mike on a stage.
Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing

In March 2015, a popular Indian comic, Abish Mathew, performed at a college festival at the National Law University (NLU)…
By Noopur Raval
January 4, 2016
Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing
Brushstrokes: The Sound of Laughter*
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Brushstrokes: The Sound of Laughter*

[slideshow_deploy id=’8255′] [slideshow_deploy id=’8268′] “I want to put forward laughter and detachment as ways of resisting and refusing patriarchy by…
By Debolina Dutta
January 18, 2016
Brushstrokes: The Sound of Laughter*
Brushstrokes: #FeministBollySongs
A film still of Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor dancing with Holi colours thrown on them. Over the picture is a screenshot of a tweet that reads, "Balam pichkari joh tune mujhe mari, toh seedhi saadhi chhori ne harassment ki FIR likha di. & she was taken seriously. #FeministBollySongs"
Brushstrokes: #FeministBollySongs

Twitter has been rumbling with chuckles and giggles over the last few days with a trending slew of Tweets and…
By Curated Content
January 4, 2016
Brushstrokes: #FeministBollySongs
Being Funny and Also Politically Correct: Is That a Paradox?
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Being Funny and Also Politically Correct: Is That a Paradox?

I was involved in creating a social media presence for TARSHI that was rights-based and pleasure-affirming. It was not always…
By Tanisha Chadha
January 4, 2016
Being Funny and Also Politically Correct: Is That a Paradox?
Autonomy, agency, choice: Yes these are for us
6 people are sitting on a stage. Behind them is a purple poster with the text "Purple Fest" followed by "Celebrating Diversity". The rest of the text is partially hidden. A woman, who is sitting at the centre wearing a pink salwar-kameez, is giving a speech on a mic. The other panellists are looking at her. A man sitting in the far left is translating the speech into sign language.
Autonomy, agency, choice: Yes these are for us

The linkages between access, health, violence, the law, workplaces, gender and sexuality are really high and that’s why we all today—whether we are working on street accessibility, education, disability and employment—need to bring and build our collective understanding around gender and sexuality, keeping it at the core of our work with people, youth, and women with disabilities.
By Nidhi Goyal and Srinidhi Raghavan
February 16, 2023
Autonomy, agency, choice: Yes these are for us
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