queerness
What we are owed
…what is there to misunderstand
about hands that take without asking,
about silence twisted into consent
by those who have never had to be afraid?
By Shruti Sharma
February 18, 2025
January 13, 2025
बच्चों के जीवन में क्वीयरनेस के लिए जगह बनाना
क्वीयरनेस एक स्वतंत्र पहचान है जो छोटे बच्चों सहित किसी को भी स्वीकार करती है, जो निर्धारित बाइनरी के पथ से अलग चलते हैं।
By Riya Parikh
December 18, 2024
Interview – Chand
Safe spaces in the way that they often circulate are depoliticised and the assumption is that there won’t be any conflicts, but there can be no safe space without an exchange of ideas, which will create some bad feelings leading to conflict.
By Akshita Singh and Pragya Solanki
November 19, 2024
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India
What does belonging, then, look like in urban India for people from different social, economic and political backgrounds?
By Vanshika Gupta and Niv
November 19, 2024
Home-coming
The morning was heavy, laden with the weight of expectation, with the unsettling realisation that something was about to shift.
By Niv, Vanshika Gupta, Anjani Chadha
November 19, 2024
Quick Bytes with Taash
The relationship with my body is so fragmented that there’s not a primary “real” me, and that’s also how I locate queerness within disability.
By Taash
November 19, 2024
The Future is Femme
The patriarchy is petrified of gender fluidity. Not only does the femininomenon threaten the modes of sex-based binaries, but it also undermines sexist hierarchies.
By Sindhu Rajasekaran
October 17, 2024
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
Who gets to imagine this utopian sociality, or future, of the queer movement?
By Susmit Panzade
October 17, 2024
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 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
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
Editorial – Queering as a Way of Life
Queering is not about being queer but about doing queer – about going beyond binaries of gender and sexuality, questioning accepted perspectives, and challenging and upending normative ways of being in the world.
By TARSHI
July 22, 2024
Embracing a Queer Second Adolescence
To queer something is to disrupt normative frameworks, to imagine and create new modes of being (Pirani & Daskalopoulou, 2022)….
By Srividya Mehendale
July 22, 2024
Queering the Paradigm: Dismantling Politics, Power, and Privilege
Queering, as a theoretical and practical approach, has emerged as a powerful means of challenging and dismantling established politics, power…
By Lipun Kumar Sanbad