A digital magazine on sexuality in the Global South

Author: Radhika Chandiramani

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Issue in Focus: Sexual Rights

It may be useful to visualise sexual rights as a large tree with deep roots and a vast canopy of leaves. Or as a giant umbrella. Or a big tent. Whatever tickles your imagination and allows you to see it as a conceptual and practical tool to make claims for any aspect that relates to how we express sexuality.
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Freedom and an F Word

What do you think of when you put the words freedom and sexuality together? Orgies? Polyamory? Sex with no unwanted consequences? Acceptance of all sorts of sexual desires? The freedom to be free of sex (as in the act, as well as sex as determined by genitals, chromosomes and hormones)? Perhaps you think of all…
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Interview: Shohini Ghosh

Both fiction and non-fiction are capable of great complexity if the making is in the hands of someone capable and complex. I have always held that good films – fiction, non-fiction or hybrid– emerge not from a familiarity with the subject, though that’s essential – but an understanding of the language of cinema.
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Picture of feminist activist Pramada Menon, she ihas short hair and is wearing a maroon kurta, black waistcoat and a red dupatta

प्रमदा मेनन : क्यों परिवार हमारे हमारे दिलो-दिमाग पर इस कदर छाए रहते हैं?

प्रमदा मेनन एक क्विअर नारीवादी एक्टिविस्ट हैं जो हर उस विषय पर विवेचना करती हैं जिसे वे जटिल मानती हैं। जब वे विवेचना नहीं कर रही होती हैं तब वे जेंडर, यौनिकता और महिला अधिकारों पर कंसलटेंट के रूप में काम करती है और कभी-कभी Fat, Feminist and Free का मंचन भी करती हैं जिसमें…
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