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As A Woman Who Isn’t Interested In Sex, People Want To Know Why I’m On Tinder
Every match that came my way, every person I spoke to, every time someone pointed to the word “asexual” in my bio – it was all an exercise in acceptance, compassion, and empathy. People were asking questions because they wanted to know how best to interact with me, how to respect my boundaries, how to to get over their own misgivings about ‘my kind’.
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Are ‘Sexpert’ Columns The Only Options Left For Our Deepest, Most Intimate Doubts?
By Kirrat Sachdeva This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. As soon as I…
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An Indefinite Sentence: Love, Homophobia and the AIDS Panic in 1980s India
I WAS 26 YEARS OLD in 1988, living in Delhi, where I had recently moved after several years as a…
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An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Takes Her Public Art Project to Georgia By FELICIA R. LEE APRIL 9, 2014 Tatyana Fazlalizadeh pasted her self-portrait Friday…
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February 1, 2015
A World Away: HIV in Central Asia
In the spring of 2005, working with a medical NGO, I and five colleagues (two critical care flight paramedics, a…
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December 15, 2015
A woman giving birth naturally in water at home
[slideshow_deploy id=’6238′] While the field of reproductive health has been upgraded and equipped with the latest technology of the 21st…
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July 1, 2015
A Trip To Delhi: Women Reclaiming Freedom Of Movement & Space
This post was originally posted here. By Sheelalipi Sahana January 29, 2021 — In 1932, four Urdu writers caused a…
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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…
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A Critical Analysis Of The Surrogacy Regulation Bill 2016
The bill exhibits a lack of understanding of agency which ought to be given to a woman; that a woman should be able to make decisions when the question is with regard to her body. There is no need for the State to be the Big Brother.
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A Boy And His Closet: My Coming Out Story
This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. The author chose to remain anonymous. “So how…
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March 20, 2015
6 Reasons Telling Women Their Power Is in Their Sexuality Is Not Empowering
This article was reposted from Everyday Feminism. December 14, 2015 by Suzannah Weiss One night, my college boyfriend, two of his female…
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‘Trans Bodies, Trans Selves’: A Modern Manual By And For Trans People
This article was originally published at NPR.org The growing number of people who identify as transgender is raising a lot…
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“What Is Oral Sex” My 12-Year-Old Asked. I Shook Off Terror.
On a cold winter evening, watching a tense India vs England cricket match when your about-to-be teenager asks you these questions, you want go deep under cover inside that blanket and never come out. Not possible, of course. I see myself as the quintessential modern day mom, pal to her kids, cool, unflappable.
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April 18, 2017
“India Has Been a Sexual Wasteland for Two Centuries”: An Interview with Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar
Kakar talks about the divide between Ayurveda and modern medicine, Freudian psychoanalysis and Indian metaphysics, and the fault lines between colonialism, religion and sexuality.
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