2014 November
Brushstrokes: Featuring Humans of New York
[slideshow_deploy id=’4422′] These are photographs from the now famous collection Humans of New York. Photographer Brandon Staunton has been navigating…
By Curated Content
November 1, 2014
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
… the heroine an amputee on a microprocessor controlled prosthetic leg with a hydraulic foot and ankle system raises her…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2014
The Invisible Mother: The ‘Stigma’ of Surrogacy
Mobility is undertaken for varied reasons across contemporary global spaces. One emerging reason for travel and mobility is reproduction. ‘Reproductive…
By Sama
November 1, 2014
November 1, 2014
Intersections between Mental Health and Human Rights: The case of transwomen and transmen in Malaysia
Last week, I was at The Third International Conference on Human Rights and Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia organised…
By Vizla Kumaresan
I-Column: A Trip To The Ladies’
Remember Simone de Beauvoir said, one is not born a woman but rather becomes one? A trip to the ladies’…
By Shweta Krishnan
November 1, 2014
The Editorial: Mobility and Sexuality
Movement. Stillness. Travel. Free flow. Restrictions. Borders. Us and Them. Movement takes us closer to our destinations and sometimes forced…
By TARSHI
November 1, 2014
Loitering while Female…
When one travels as a woman or indeed as someone who is not an upper caste, middle or upper class,…
By Shilpa Phadke
November 1, 2014
Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry (2010)
The book ‘Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry’describes the different spatial and temporal conditions that are…
By Aindrila Chaudhuri
Migration, Gender and Identity in the New Political Economy
Migration is synonymous with change. Migration of an individual from one place to another involves fundamental changes in attributes that…
By Mansi Wadhwa
November 1, 2014
बर्लिन में
जब शाम ढली, हम सभी सड़क के चिराग हो गए। क्रॉयज़बर्ग बस रौशनी था – और सस्ते कबाब – हरी दीवारें,…
By Akhil Katyal
November 1, 2014
Child, interrupted
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s conviction of two British paedophiles last week. But there are many other cases…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2014
A Review Essay: The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
The Sexuality of Migration speaks only to gay men from Mexico. It is reticent on the issues of other non-normative sexualities such…
By Curated Content