Shikha Aleya
Interview – Dr. Sangeeta Saksena
Lived experience cannot be overlooked. It is the ultimate teacher.
By Shikha Aleya
December 16, 2025
Interview– Anindita Kargupta
Young people make better choices when they understand consequences, boundaries and respect – not when they are kept in the dark.
By Shikha Aleya
December 16, 2025
November 17, 2025
We’re Friends
If my sexuality is an integral part of who I am, then friendship is where I hope I can be who I am.
By Shikha Aleya
October 15, 2025
Interview – Reetika Revathy Subramanian
… climate change is not just environmental. It is social, political, economic, emotional. And it demands that we listen carefully to who is affected, how, and what they are already doing to survive.
By Shikha Aleya
August 19, 2025
Interview – Raghavi S
Language is one of the most intimate things we share with one another, more than bodies, more than time.
By Shikha Aleya
July 16, 2025
Revealing the Code
What is the language, across languages, that we associate with sexuality? Is it healing? Empowering? Does this language comfort and console? Does it lift you up and make you feel good about who you are?
By Shikha Aleya
June 17, 2025
Interview – Rumi Harish
My assertion of my gender was not because of masculinity, it was because of the feminism which I practised – and that gave me this chance to come back to what I was. To assert what I was and to assert what I am.
By Shikha Aleya
May 19, 2025
Interview – We Have Questions!
There are times when we bend the rules and draw on the walls. This is one of those times. We listened in on some of the chatter online on the subject of consent and we ended up with some questions.
By Shikha Aleya
March 17, 2025
Consent, reaction, response, or – you lead, I follow.
Look sharp. Consent is tricky, hiding secrets behind the empowerment toolkit and all our good intentions. Why? Because we activate this value-loaded word in a world where many, or most things, are still about the first-mover advantage. A world that holds typically narrow views of capacity, ability and success.
By Shikha Aleya
February 18, 2025
Interview – Radhika Vaz
I think we are still in a trap of a heteronormative, youth biased, light skin biased, sizeist, ableist culture and until we consciously snap out of it we are throwing a cloak over a human being’s ability to really find what their sexuality even looks like.
By Shikha Aleya
January 13, 2025
Interview – Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani
I feel that parents, teachers and CSE can make room for these disparate realities of adolescents by first acknowledging the limits of formal sexuality education, that the curriculum imparted formally fails in providing the kind of learning that happens through other sources.
By Shikha Aleya
December 18, 2024
A small slice of Gender & Sexuality feels like this!
Here’s to some quiet time listening in to what people are saying, and consuming, on the Internet, particularly on social media, on the subject of gender and sexuality.
By Shikha Aleya
November 19, 2024
Interview – Parmesh Shahani
The larger question is, who gets to bring all of themselves to the workplace, and who is either not allowed, or feels scared, or is bullied for doing so?
By Shikha Aleya
September 18, 2024
हैकर्स और ऊँची एड़ी के जूते
काम और यौनिकता? इस तरह से देखें तो यह आपकी पूरी ज़िंदगी है।
By Shikha Aleya
September 18, 2024