Sexuality
Masculinity, queer representation, and the motifs of movement in ‘Dedh Ishqiya’
The film has all the makings and trimmings of a commercial thriller – a dynamic story, song and dance, an action-packed climax – and at the same time, it is a cinephile’s film.
By Srishti Gupta
Marriage And The Body As A Birthing Vessel
“I don’t always remember that I’m nearing thirty. On an average day the thought that I have a ticking time-bomb…
By Oindrilla DuttaGupta
December 1, 2013
Marriage and sexuality in the 21st century
The meetings with Nakul had made me feel interminably uneasy and awfully awkward. It was like going on a date knowing that your choice would be for life, it was more pressure on the heart than I had ever imagined.
By Curated Content
March 15, 2017
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree
Maraa means ‘tree’ in Kannada and it is the nature of a tree that we wish to embody, with strong roots, branches in different directions, growing tall but also wilting, dying and beginning again.
By Angarika Guha
October 17, 2024
Man, His Madness, and the Mad Woman
Mad adj. crazy, nuts, loony, mental, insane. adj. angry, frustrated, raging. No one is a better drama queen than William…
By Shweta Krishnan
April 1, 2015
Mamahood is not one size fits all
[slideshow_deploy id=’5968′] Mamahood is not one size fits all. All mamas deserve to be seen and honored in cards that…
By Curated Content
May 15, 2015
Male-on-Male Erotica is Hugely Popular Among Women – An Expert on Sex Work Explains Why
An analysis of billions of hits to PornHub (one of the largest online porn sites in the world) shows that m/m is consistently the second most popular category for women visitors, and that women make up 37% of m/m porn viewers – suggesting that women represent viable secondary consumers of this type of porn.
By Curated Content
Making women out of men: Mystifying queer desires, staging queerness in Siraj’s Māyā Mridanga
Māyā Mridanga infinitely problematises the nature vs. nurture debate that is central to sexuality studies. The novel seems to suggest that a certain kind of male body – feminine, smooth, shapely – is the ideal raw material for making a chhokra out of a biological man. Ustaad Jhaksa, whose life the novel documents[2], repeatedly emphasises on this act of nurturing, moulding and pruning of a feminine male body for which he has fatherly affection as well as a lover’s lust.
By Kaustav Bakshi
Making Space for Queerness in the Lives of Children
Queerness is a free-flowing identity that embraces anyone, including young children, who step off the assigned binary path.
By Riya Parikh
June 18, 2024
Loving Yourself
We carve strangers’ words onto our skin
like tattoos to be flaunted while hiding away
everything that we are from within.
By Aashi Singh
October 17, 2024
Lovers as plants in a kitchen garden
“Life’s too small without freshly cut coriander
Generously sprinkled on kadhai chicken.
Mint leaves blitzing their way with tomatoes
Ripe from the vine to the fingers dripping chutney –
Fragrances of earth between all this concrete.”
By Lavanya Arora
July 17, 2023
Love, Sexuality and Pleasure
It was so wonderful when I got sexual pleasure from someone I loved, someone I had fun with, someone I trusted, and someone whom I liked as a person!
By Anonymous
February 3, 2020
Love, Marriage, and the Neoliberal World Order
On June 27, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States of America held, “The Fourteenth Amendment requires a state…
By Debanuj DasGupta
August 1, 2015
Love, Lust or Desire – Fusing Sex Back with Sexuality
While sex sometimes can be fun, and at other times complicated and frustrating –is always love, lust or desire: which one you are signing up for and which one did you want to actually explore?
By Nidhi Goyal
November 1, 2018
Love, Lust and PDA
Six years later (and out of such an abusive relationship), as I sit in a Gender Studies classroom discussing public and private spheres, being introduced to the feminist ideology of the personal being political, I reflect back and see my experiences as emerging from a complex discursive pattern. The peculiar way in which heterosexual romantic relationships are envisaged and the potentiality of them being disruptive of traditional arrangements of companionship requires them to be manifested outside of the four walls of home and family. Yet, one faces a situation of a pathetic lack of safe spaces within the public sphere and the traditional discourse of love being private and contained within the private sphere…
By Anannya Chatterjee
April 1, 2019