Sexuality
Reclaiming Intimacy: Sex Positivity and A Cultural Grammar That Values ‘Personhood’
As we move toward destigmatising the topic of sex for all genders, we should include the language of intimacy as we collectively create a new cultural grammar around sex.
By Anonymous
Radicalise The Banal
How we treat each other in our daily lives informs our feminist praxis. How we fail each other in our daily lives through the use of unkind language, dismissal of mental illnesses, making fun of one’s own choices, disrespecting personal boundaries (and so on), also counter our feminist praxis.
By Debarati Sarkar
December 16, 2019
Quick Bytes with Vikramjeet Sinha
Quick Bytes is based on short responses to cue questions that we ask those who agree to participate in this micro feature.
By Vikramjeet Sinha
March 18, 2024
Quick Bytes with Tejaswi Subramanian
Sexuality makes me think of an erotic adventure. Something that helps us be alive to the world around us, and to life around us.
By Tejaswi Subramanian
June 18, 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
Quick Bytes with Soumya Mishra
Sexuality is fluid, embodying my emotions, and their expression, thereby creating an aspect of my identity central to me.
By Soumya Mishra
September 18, 2024
Quick Bytes with Abhishek Desai
The pandemic and lockdown isolation made recovery harder for people with sex or porn addiction because of a lack of support systems that enabled their recovery.
By Abhishek Desai
April 18, 2024
Questions I want to ask!
If you’ve got a body, in which you’re going to negotiate this life, you have to know how it works.
By Suchitra Dalvie
June 18, 2024
Queering the Narrative: The Evolution of LGBTQ+ Themes in Hindi Cinema
Despite the progress made, Hindi cinema still faces challenges in accurately representing the diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences. Critiques have been raised regarding the tendency to prioritize cisgender, upper-class narratives.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
Queering Konkani, My Mother Tongue
When the hunk of a football player kicks the football, it swerves towards the right and bounces off the goalpost…
By Andy Stephen Silveira
July 22, 2024
Queer Women in Aranyani’s A Pleasant Kind of Heavy and Other Stories*
Aranyani’s writing most certainly has a sensory charm and no two people are going to experience her narration the same way. I wish you a happy and gloriously gay reading of this fleshy collection of erotic stories!
By Swati Vijaya
September 1, 2017
Queer Stories for Queer People
The relationships that are portrayed in queer media also often transcend all attempts at categorisation, but are still undeniably queer – as are the characters whose inescapable push-and-pull, to their audience, often becomes the plot itself.
By Malavika Krishna Kumar
March 18, 2024
Queer Spatiality Facilitates Queer Connections: The Pandemic Took It Away
The space where we get an education and form our ideas about the world, and especially about people who are not like us (read: minorities) holds importance, especially for me as a queer Bahujan person.
By Rajeev Anand Kushwah
Queer Pride in India: Creating Space for Intersectional Queer Identities and Other Marginalised Voices?
There are many ways to be queer. Apart from the fact that queerness encompasses a wide variety of sexual expression,…
By Sonia Dhawan
Queer mental health and therapy
Several outcomes of minority stress were observed in this study – feelings of guilt and shame, internalised homophobia, experiencing queerphobia, lack of acceptance, and family-related stress.
By Anuckriti Garg
September 1, 2022