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Issue 2, 2009
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Letter From Editor
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Welcome to this issue of In Plainspeak.
We celebrate the positive decision of the Delhi High Court
on reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code,
with pictures of the 2009 Pride Parade that took place just
four days before the decision was read in court. Thanks to
Aditya Bondyopadhyay for sharing his photographs with
In Plainspeak.
We are pleased to bring to you the voice of Shireen Pervin
Huq in an extremely thought-provoking interview. In a
fascinating account, Shireen tells us about the politics of
language, and of how in the beginning, ‘important men’
spoke on behalf of the women’s movement in Bangladesh,
rather than women themselves! It is thankfully, a very
different Movement now.
From Bangladesh again, Adnan Hossain questions whether
homophobia is the only way to explain the oppression
of people who do not conform to gender and sexuality
norms. What happens when ‘homophobia’, class, Islam,
and rights meet?
Against the backdrop of the furore over sexuality education
in India, Veronica George muses on why it is needed.
Highlighting one of the many reasons why sexuality
education is crucial not just for young people but also for
those supposedly taking care of them, this time’s Issue in
Focus is incest. An anonymous contributor writes about
her experience of and recovery from it. We also have the I
column focus on child sexual abuse from a slightly different
angle. Child sexual abuse (CSA) is often assumed to be a
heterosexual act. Here is a brave account of same sex child
sexual abuse by Pranaadhika Sinha who runs an NGO on
CSA and incest awareness/support.
Germaine Trittle P Leonin reviews a book of lesbian
short stories, essays, and poems from the Philippines and
Bishakha Datta reviews a film on a very special relationship
between a young man and a life-sized anatomically correct
doll. No, not the kind that you are thinking of!
We are grateful to Pratibha Singh for allowing us to use her
art works. There is an interesting story behind them.
Please do keep sending in your contributions and feedback
to resourcecentre@tarshi.net.
Stay well, loved, and happy.
Radhika Chandiramani
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