A digital magazine on sexuality, based in the Global South: We are working towards cultivating safe, inclusive, and self-affirming spaces in which all individuals can express themselves without fear, judgement or shame

Author: Neel

तीन लोगों की छाया-आकृतियाँ एक लाल, रोशन पर्दे के सामने एक दूसरे से कुछ दूरी पर अलग-अलग मुद्राओं में खड़ी हैं।

दुनिया एक रंगमंच है

  • ·March 1, 2022
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पहले जिन स्त्रीसुलभ व्यवहारों के कारण मुझमें वो मेएलीपन दिखाई देता था, अब वो मेरे जीवन का हिस्सा बन चुका है। वह अब उन सब कपड़ों में जो मैं पहनती हूँ, जिस अंदाज़ में मैं चलती, सोचती और बात करती हूँ या लोक चर्चाओं में भाग लेती हूँ, परिलक्षित होता है।
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Becoming a Womxn: An Autobiography on Pleasure

  • ·January 3, 2022
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This article was originally published here. The canvas of a city is experiential – from the walls and windows that bear stories, to the grey and inky streets they get spilled into. As city-dwellers and storytellers, to be visible is a necessity, and as state subjects, what is necessary is also negotiable. In what ways…
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Wall-art of a face till the bridge of the nose. The face is coloured in peach, grey, and shades of blue. The eyes, green, are lined in black and have spots of yellow, brown, and blue colour around them. Under the left eye, there are yellow dots. The hair is streaked with purple and blue.

Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World

  • ·June 15, 2021
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The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt. While virtual sex offers a window to revisit the sensual, it is also not immune to limitations and insecurities.
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तीन लोगों की छाया-आकृतियाँ एक लाल, रोशन पर्दे के सामने एक दूसरे से कुछ दूरी पर अलग-अलग मुद्राओं में खड़ी हैं।

All the World’s a Stage

  • ·December 15, 2020
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The ways I look at femininity have evolved as I have. Growing up in a space driven by dance and music, my first acquaintance with the adornments a gendered body carries were the performances I did of Gitabitan, a collection of songs and plays by Rabindranath Tagore. To my younger, past self, my gender identity was…
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Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World

  • ·August 14, 2020
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The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt.
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A sculpture of a woman leaning downwards

Becoming a Womxn: An Autobiography on Pleasure

  • ·February 17, 2020
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Pleasure, in the context of the private, defines the parlance of sexual satisfaction. As a womxn, the private is also the public: how I present and play with my gender, is a way of seeking validation of who I am.
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