Sexuality
My First Memories of Dabbling into online BDSM still Empower me after more than a Decade
If not for these memories, my exploration of sexuality would perhaps have stopped a few years ago, when I was single for a long time and didn’t know if I could find someone like me.
By Asmi
Of filter coffee, marriage and mixed celebrations of sexuality
Marriage also feels complicated when one approaches it through the lens of feminism. Marriage throws in two people and often their families into a system designed to perpetuate patriarchy, subjugate women, and bind men and women (in heteronormative marriage) into strict roles in the marriage.
By Vani Viswanathan
January 13, 2025
MeToo, Masculinity and Amrita Pritam
Dilli ki Galiyaan therefore offers us a broader canvas for our desires, than the one afforded by the clear cut binaries of our current debates. The text shows that there will be masculinities that we urgently need to discourage; while men who do not encourage us will continue to exist.
By Ishan
January 13, 2025
Editorial – Parents, Teachers, and CSE
Each time a child or adolescent asks a question that may be (even indirectly) related to sexuality, many parents and teachers get squirmy and nervous. This may be because they themselves do not have the information required, but in most cases, it has more to do with the ‘hush-hush’ that surrounds sexuality.
By TARSHI
December 18, 2024
Interview – Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani
I feel that parents, teachers and CSE can make room for these disparate realities of adolescents by first acknowledging the limits of formal sexuality education, that the curriculum imparted formally fails in providing the kind of learning that happens through other sources.
By Shikha Aleya
December 18, 2024
Comprehensive Sexuality and Personal Safety Education: Its Significance and Relevance
A child’s social environment in their foundational years plays a critical role in shaping their worldview and influences their responses and the way they communicate with their peers.
By Antara Buzarbaruah
Peek-A-Boo: Navigating Conversations on Sexuality with Young People as an Educator in India
Despite the lack of a formal Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) curriculum in place in India, there has been a growing interest in providing CSE programmes in schools.
By Ayesha Khaliq and Nandhini Jaishankar
Unashamed: A Transformative Guide that Educates and Empowers
What makes Unashamed particularly effective within the framework of CSE is Bhat’s unwavering commitment to an inclusive and affirming perspective.
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
December 18, 2024
Between Generations: The Courage to Ask, The Courage to Answer
My mother’s openness gave me a profound glimpse into how deeply conversations – or their absence – shape our sense of self.
By Sahana G
December 18, 2024
No Birds No Bees
Aria walked into her school’s auditorium, giggling with the rest of the girls, because they were about to have their very first Sex Ed workshop.
By Aradhana PS
December 18, 2024
The Banyan Tree
It’s clear Ms. Nisha is not here to shame them or lecture them. She’s here to give them words when they have none.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
December 18, 2024
Whispers of the River
We spoke about everything and nothing at once, her presence like a balm to an ache I hadn’t realised I carried.
By Abishek Philip
December 18, 2024
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
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality
Gender and sexuality are like constituent parts of a jigsaw puzzle that keeps morphing in such a way that nothing ever ‘fits’ for long, and the game begins anew each time.
By TARSHI
November 19, 2024
A small slice of Gender & Sexuality feels like this!
Here’s to some quiet time listening in to what people are saying, and consuming, on the Internet, particularly on social media, on the subject of gender and sexuality.
By Shikha Aleya
November 19, 2024