Anonymous, Author at In Plainspeak

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Navigating love, loneliness and singlehood

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The desire for intimacy might rob one of the intimacy that one shares with oneself and thus, being with the beloved can leave one feeling even lonelier because of the continuing struggle for validation and comfort.

By Anonymous

January 3, 2022

Navigating love, loneliness and singlehood

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I believe that queer friendships and intimacies are sheer resistance, which not only swallow the despair and pain that might be perpetrated on gender-nonconforming people by their families, but also recognise all the lies about love that have been sold to us.

By Anonymous

February 1, 2021

Navigating love, loneliness and singlehood

स्वीकार्यता, स्वतन्त्रता और महिलाओं का हॉस्टल

आज मुझे लड़कियों के अपने हॉस्टल से निकले हुए तीन वर्ष हो चुके हैं, और मुझे लगता है कि हॉस्टल जीवन में मिली सभी सीखें आज भी मेरे यौनिक जीवन को सही दिशा देने में कारगर साबित हो रही हैं।

By Anonymous

April 1, 2020

स्वीकार्यता, स्वतन्त्रता और महिलाओं का हॉस्टल

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, Sexuality and Pleasure

Acceptance, Agency, and a Women’s Hostel

Home, to me, was never a static entity, but my time in a girl’s hostel feels like the embodiment of everything my ideal “home” is – empowering, liberating, and full of women who love each other unabashedly.

By Anonymous

January 2, 2020

Acceptance, Agency, and a Women’s Hostel

a gay man's daughter: silhouette of a man holding up his daughter

क्या यह मेरे पिता की गलती थी? शुरू में, मुझे लगा कि यह उन्हीं की गलती है, लेकिन फिर मुझे समझ में आने लगा कि वह स्वयं इस स्थिति में असहाय हैं।

By Anonymous

December 16, 2019

एक गे पुरुष की बेटी

Were there more people like my father? Was it legal? I read about sexual diversity and how people of all sexual orientations should have the same rights[1], the LGBT community, and so on, and what the law says about them. Though the picture is not a completely happy one, a lot of work is going on in this area and there is still hope for the future.

By Anonymous

December 2, 2019

A Gay Man’s Daughter

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यहाँ लड़कियों के लिए सेक्स करना सामजिक रूप से बहिष्कृत हो जाने जैसा अनैतिक काम है या कहिये कि यह गैर-कानूनी ही है, हालांकि कानूनन इसे गैर-कानूनी घोषित नहीं किया गया है।

By Anonymous

December 3, 2018

हमारे शहर, सेक्स और दोहरे मानदंड

Black and white picture of stand-up comic Hannah Gadsby. She has short hair and wears dark glasses.

In Nanette, Hannah Gadsby’s hour-long Netflix special that transcends the very notions of stand-up comedy, forces of reclamation, protest, and rage culminate to form a darkly hilarious but heartbreaking diatribe against patriarchy, heteronormativity, violence and marginalisation.

By Anonymous

September 4, 2018

Nanette: Of Universality and Difference

एक आकांक्षा, कुछ कश्मकश और संतुष्टि का एक अजीब तरीका

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सच्चाई इस सब से परे थी; सच्चाई ये थी कि मैं एक किशोर लड़की थी जिसके मन में अनेको आकांक्षाएँ थी, वासना थी, लालसा थी और इन सब को पूरा करने के तरीके ढूँढने की ललक भी थी।

By Anonymous

August 14, 2018

एक आकांक्षा, कुछ कश्मकश और संतुष्टि का एक अजीब तरीका

Many queer Indians who converse largely in their respective regional languages find it difficult to put a name to their queer identity in their ‘mother tongue’.

By Anonymous

May 1, 2018

The Absence of a Queer ‘Mother Tongue’

In a way, Mrs Chatterjee’s worst fears had been confirmed. The hostel was indeed dangerous – not because of “raging hormones”, but because wewere constantly initiating discussions and circumstances which challenged the patriarchal status quo.

By Anonymous

March 5, 2018

Acceptance, Agency, and A Womens’ Hostel