This article was originally published at NPR.org The growing number of people who identify as transgender is raising a lot…
And all my life I’ve lived alone. What it means to be beautiful, I’ve never known. I’ve had partners but…
[slideshow_deploy id=’6158′] I remember the first time I learnt of menstruation as a ten year old. One of our friends…
The medical ward is often continuous with the world around it. One would like to think of it as an…
[slideshow_deploy id=’6065′] The following photographs question our notions of beauty and an ‘ideal’ body. Rahul Saharan shot a series of…
The Church says: the body is a sin Science says: the body is a machine Advertising says: the body is…
i want to 377 you so bad till even the sheets hurt i want to ache your knees singe your…
Nidhi Goyal is a gender and disability rights activist from Mumbai, India. Anisha Dutt: Your journey as a disability and gender rights activist…
Rebecca Traister, in her recent article for the New Republic, titled Let’s Just Say It: Women Matter More Than Fetuses…
Academic scholarship, popular culture and media-generated sex surveys are only beginning to understand ‘pre-marital’ sex among young people in India….
It’s sad that we think we own our bodies: the bodies we love, the bodies we hate, the bodies we…
India is home to a whopping 17.5% of the total world population. Half of this population is its women. No, correction,…
My experience of school, as I remember it, was quite conflicted. As a child I lacked the vocabulary to describe…
The body is our tangible hacker of the world. It experiences the world and the world experiences it. I do…