Sexuality
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.
If you’ve got a body, in which you’re going to negotiate this life, you have to know how it works.
Queerness is a free-flowing identity that embraces anyone, including young children, who step off the assigned binary path.
हम धीरे-धीरे अपनी शर्म, असहजता, और ‘हेटेरोनॉर्मेटिव’ मानसिकता से ऊपर उठने लगे ऐसी कई सारी कृतियों का विश्लेषण करते हुए, जो न तो वात्स्यायन का ‘कामसूत्र’ थे और न ही यौनिकता पर फ़ूको की समीक्षा।
Sexuality makes me think of an erotic adventure. Something that helps us be alive to the world around us, and to life around us.
This month’s offering of articles, poems and fiction is an eclectic mix that (mostly) reflects what was borne out of the pandemic, and its impact on sexuality, intimacy, relationships, and more.
In this great repository of the human collective consciousness and exposure lies a wealth of tacit knowledge of COVID-19 that is independent of the subject expert.
Getting to know who I really am has been a game changer. Prejudice, anger, control and violence all emerge from fear.
ऑनलाइन डेटिंग पहली मुलाक़ात में किसी को अपने घर बुला लेने जैसा लग सकता है, लेकिन फ़र्क़ ये है कि हम फ़ैसला कर सकते हैं कि हम उन्हें अपने घर और अपनी निजी ज़िंदगी के कौन-से हिस्सों में जगह देने के लिए तैयार हैं।
With access to private spaces taken away on account of the pandemic, suddenly couples from liberal and affluent backgrounds found themselves in the same position as couples from less privileged backgrounds – desperately looking for pockets of privacy.
Why does the gap feel so wide no matter how much I explain, again and again, that I do not mean to hurt him… hurt any of them? I feel torn… but Amma and Appa need my help at home. Lockdown has been so damn hard.
I would once again be theirs, in memory, on the day my lover would die.
A part of me is strong, independent, and quick to dismiss all kinds of uniformity. The other part is bashful, fearful, and somewhat assenting to a vast compromise.
हमारा मानसिक स्वास्थ्य सिर्फ़ हमारी इकलौती ज़िम्मेदारी नहीं है बल्कि उन संस्थाओं और व्यवस्थाओं की भी ज़िम्मेदारी है जिनका हम हिस्सा हैं। इसलिए हमारी सेहत और ख़ुशहाली बनाए रखने के लिए इनका योगदान ज़रूरी है।