Sexuality

Lootera: The Thief Who Stole My Heart
Poster of the film Lootera showing a man holding a woman in an intimate embrace.
Lootera: The Thief Who Stole My Heart

It is rare to show with such simplicity and depth, the undoing of a robber as he falls in love with the subject of his robbery. Lootera reinforces the belief in love’s gentleness which can disarm all the trappings of normative masculinity that society commands.
By Pronita Tripathi
April 17, 2025
Lootera: The Thief Who Stole My Heart
Looking outside, seeing inside
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Looking outside, seeing inside

I find that my own clothes are all just pieces of a larger archive I’m slowly constructing: an archive of the women I love, a half-hearted attempt at mimicking what I love.
By Drishti Rakhra
September 20, 2023
Looking outside, seeing inside
Looking For Someone To Talk To
खुले आसमान के तले दो लोग एक दूसरे की तरफ़ अपना हाथ बढ़ाते हुए. Two hands reaching out to each other against the background of a blue sky.
Looking For Someone To Talk To

I would say that growing up in a small village would make it difficult to find love or companionship, but I have since moved to a city and found that it was difficult to find love there, too. It did not stop me from trying, though.
By Wesley D'Souza
April 1, 2022
Looking For Someone To Talk To
Loitering towards desire
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Loitering towards desire

We had gathered to [discuss] digital self-determination for people with disabilities… focusing on its core component: the self. How can I be myself in digital spaces? What gives me more of a sense of self in these spaces? How can design, technology and policy contribute to helping me determine myself in digital spaces?
By Bishakha Datta
February 16, 2023
Loitering towards desire
Lockdown Logs
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Lockdown Logs

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.
By Kaveri
April 18, 2024
Lockdown Logs
Locating the ‘Nagar’ in ‘Nagarkirtan’: Identifying the feeling of socio-sexual rootlessness in the Transgender community
Poster of the movie Nagarkirtan. A woman with short hair is leaning her chin on the shoulders of a man who is playing a flute. The name of the movie is written in Bengali, followed by its translation in English that reads “The Eunuch and The Flute Player”. Below it is the text that reads, “A Film by Kaushik Ganguly”, following which is a list of awards won by the movie at the 2018 National Awards.
Locating the ‘Nagar’ in ‘Nagarkirtan’: Identifying the feeling of socio-sexual rootlessness in the Transgender community

The plot of the movie narrates the tale of the love that grows between two people who are struggling to survive in a world of rootlessness and are continuing to make a cosy home for themselves. The love between Madhu, who works as a food delivery boy, and Puti, who survives by singing at traffic signals, blossoms while they cross paths everyday at the traffic signal and the look that they exchange appears to us as if each of them is trying to find a home in the other.

By Ria Basu
April 18, 2022
Locating the ‘Nagar’ in ‘Nagarkirtan’: Identifying the feeling of socio-sexual rootlessness in the Transgender community
Lives of Sex Workers living with disabilities from VAMP
Photo of a woman in a light blue salary standing leaning against a wall in what looks like arun-down neighbourhood. The text over the image reads: "Shanta Kamble was a sex worker for 15 years. She lives in Uttamnagar, Miraj, a town in southern Maharashtra. As a young girl with polio, Shanta ran away from home."
Lives of Sex Workers living with disabilities from VAMP

Following are some short clips made by Point of View, Mumbai  in collaboration with SANGRAM, Sangli about the lives of sex workers living…
By Point of View
August 1, 2014
Lives of Sex Workers living with disabilities from VAMP
Listening in today…
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Listening in today…

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.
By Shikha Aleya
May 16, 2024
Listening in today…
Let’s Talk About Alternate Safe Spaces For Queer Women In India
A welcome mat with the rainbow flag on it, it is torn in the middle
Let’s Talk About Alternate Safe Spaces For Queer Women In India

Therefore, the question of safe spaces and alternative families is pertinent to queer identities, that are so much more than imagined by a single dominant narrative.

By Feminism in India
April 15, 2019
Let’s Talk About Alternate Safe Spaces For Queer Women In India
Let’s Talk About 377 | Popular Culture is Changing How India Views Homosexuality
Still from "Fire", showing two women standing together intimately, smiles on their faces
Let’s Talk About 377 | Popular Culture is Changing How India Views Homosexuality

When Deepa Mehta’s Fire came out in 1996, violent protests roiled India over the depiction of romance between two female leads. There is no homosexuality in India, demonstrators declared while burning effigies in the Capital. In contrast, when Margarita With A Straw came out in 2014, it received accolades for its sensitive portrayal of queer desire in a woman with disability.
By Curated Content
December 15, 2018
Let’s Talk About 377 | Popular Culture is Changing How India Views Homosexuality
Let’s Get Uncomfortable: How The Control Of Girls’ Sexuality Is Everybody’s Business In The World Of Child Marriage
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Let’s Get Uncomfortable: How The Control Of Girls’ Sexuality Is Everybody’s Business In The World Of Child Marriage

This immense pressure to perform masculinity throughout each day and night not only impacts men’s wellbeing, but it also inevitably impacts the way they interact with the world around them. These interactions – this performance of control over oneself and others – reinforce the social norms and norms of power that drive gender inequality.
By Anne Sprinkel
October 1, 2019
Let’s Get Uncomfortable: How The Control Of Girls’ Sexuality Is Everybody’s Business In The World Of Child Marriage
Let’s talk about sex education and disability
A man sits on a wheelchair. He is balding, and is wearing a white shirt and plain blue trousers.
Let’s talk about sex education and disability

By: Teresa Fitzherbert For years the need of disabled people for sex and relationship education has been ignored. Campaigners want…
By Curated Content
August 18, 2014
Let’s talk about sex education and disability
Legacy
An illustration showing a naked body wearing only white and pink lace panties
Legacy

Looking at my tiny/ Equally dusty, torn, ravished collection/I wonder/Why I kept coming back to you.
By Kajol
July 1, 2019
Legacy
Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute
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Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute

I recently had the wonderful opportunity of attending the seven-day Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute (SGRI)* organised by Delhi-based organisation…
By Deepa Ranganathan
February 15, 2015
Learning To Pause and Reflect At CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute
Laws, Consent and Implications for CSE
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Laws, Consent and Implications for CSE

Providing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) remains one of the most contested and complex issues within the sexual and reproductive health…
By Rupsa Mallik
June 1, 2014
Laws, Consent and Implications for CSE
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