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A Trip To Delhi: Women Reclaiming Freedom Of Movement & Space
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…

By Curated Content
May 19, 2022
A Trip To Delhi: Women Reclaiming Freedom Of Movement & Space
JOURNEYING THROUGH SEXUALITY, ACTIVISM AND THE INTERNET
JOURNEYING THROUGH SEXUALITY, ACTIVISM AND THE INTERNET

This post was originally posted here. By Njeri Gateru November 9, 2017 — “Do you remember the first time you…

By Curated Content
May 19, 2022
JOURNEYING THROUGH SEXUALITY, ACTIVISM AND THE INTERNET
QUEER ON THE INTERNET: THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY
Original illustration by Aniqa Haider.

This post was originally posted here. By A. Salman May 27, 2021 — “I really lack the imagining of a…

By Curated Content
April 18, 2022
QUEER ON THE INTERNET: THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY
On Healing: Envisioning Safe Queer Spaces And Practicing Accountability
On Healing: Envisioning Safe Queer Spaces And Practicing Accountability

This post was originally posted here. By Trishala Dutta October 28, 2021 — TW: Mention of violence and abuse Between…

By Feminism in India
April 18, 2022
On Healing: Envisioning Safe Queer Spaces And Practicing Accountability
Place and Gender: Towards Feminist and Inclusive Cities
Place and Gender: Towards Feminist and Inclusive Cities

This post was originally posted here. By Nivea Jain September 30, 2021 — While the social dimensions of gender inequality…

By Curated Content
April 18, 2022
Place and Gender: Towards Feminist and Inclusive Cities
Loving My Dysfunctional Body: Lessons In Self Love After A Decade Of Self-Loathing
An illustration of four people on a beige background. Each person has multicoloured bouquet of flowers instead of hair, and flowers wrapped around different parts of their bodies. Each person is performing different acts of self-love - the one on the far left is applying is shaving flowers from their forearm, the one next to them is hugging themselves with their eyes closed, the next one is looking into a round hand mirror and the one on the far right has one leg on a chair and is shaving flowers from their leg. A branch of thorns and flowers threads through the background.

My body presented to me the first paradox in my feminism that I would encounter. How could I claim to be a feminist if I was not proud of the body I was born in? My advocacy as a sixth grader seemed to fail when it came to my own self.

By Feminism in India
March 15, 2022
Loving My Dysfunctional Body: Lessons In Self Love After A Decade Of Self-Loathing
How We Reimagine and Redefine Freedoms
Silhouette of a woman against an abstract, colourful background

Every part of life, the world too, is storied. Stories are the thread that hold histories and truths together. Stories are at the core of myth-making. Everything that we know is part of multiple crisscrossing relational storylines that we raise and those that we have no power in raising.

By Curated Content
March 15, 2022
How We Reimagine and Redefine Freedoms
The Loves of Others
A red and white illustration of a spaghetti dish placed upon a chequered tablecloth. Strands of spaghetti are being slurped by two invisible entities. On the top left is a circle sticker with black background and a gold border. The sticker has the text “TNI CLASSIC” in a red and yellow top-to-bottom gradient colour.

Both rejections and affirmations of the couple are skewered on this doubleness: It is the fullest expression of love and proximity available to us, and it bears all the insufficiencies of present social relations. Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social principle.

By Curated Content
February 15, 2022
The Loves of Others
REAL LOVE, BABY: THE CONTRADICTORY PRESSURES OF MODERN LOVE
An illustration of a person with thick wavy black hair, wearing black sunglasses, knee-length polka dots dress and black boots who is dragging a big red heart-shaped bag/balloon behind them in an upward slope. The background is a solid salmon pink and the slope is a solid mustard colour.

Both rejections and affirmations of the couple are skewered on this doubleness: It is the fullest expression of love and proximity available to us, and it bears all the insufficiencies of present social relations. Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social principle.

By Curated Content
February 15, 2022
REAL LOVE, BABY: THE CONTRADICTORY PRESSURES OF MODERN LOVE
Tryst With Kink: Brushstrokes Of BDSM On My Sexuality
A yellow background with an illustration of an instant film photo. The illustration depicts a naked person’s lower back and buttocks, and they are handcuffed behind. On the bottom white part of the photo’s illustration, there is a signature.

The responsibilities attached to BDSM are frankly the same as that for any other sex act. But since the submissive partner(s) are placing themselves at a position of vulnerability, these responsibilities mark the difference between sex and abuse. Have fun, but responsibly.

By Feminism in India
December 15, 2021
Tryst With Kink: Brushstrokes Of BDSM On My Sexuality
Public. Autonomous. Anonymous. Group. Sexting. At AWID 2016. Oh yeah!
A close-up image of a text message. At the top is the number of the sender, which is half hidden. Below that is the date the text messages were sent and it reads “Sat, 10 Sep 2016.” The sender’s message is below the date in a blue text bubble and the text says, “If I am close to you I want to press all your keys!! SMS 18:58.” The receiver’s message appears below in a yellow text bubble and says, “Press the Enter Key! SMS 19:00.”

Sexting is ALL about consent. Consent to RECEIVE a sext, consent to portray yourself in one. Keep this in mind, because one of the reasons sexting receives such a bad rap is because of what might happen after – dissemination of intimate images and content WITHOUT CONSENT.

By Curated Content
December 15, 2021
Public. Autonomous. Anonymous. Group. Sexting. At AWID 2016. Oh yeah!
A Gaysi Guide To Queer Anime

This article was originally published in Gaysi. Despite the categorization on OTT platforms, Anime is more medium than genre. As…

By Curated Content
November 15, 2021
A Gaysi Guide To Queer Anime
Queer Fanfiction: Changing The Hetero Narrative Of Pop Culture

This article was originally published here. I read my first piece of fanfiction at the age of fifteen. It was…

By Feminism in India
November 15, 2021
Queer Fanfiction: Changing The Hetero Narrative Of Pop Culture
A Marxist-Feminist Reading Of Sexual Division of Labour In Family

The institution of family and the conventional understanding of the same has been conveniently romanticised and glorified in a heteronormative…

By Feminism in India
October 18, 2021
A Marxist-Feminist Reading Of Sexual Division of Labour In Family
50 Ways People Expect Constant Emotional Labor from Women and Femmes

This article was originally printed here. August 15, 2016 / Suzannah Weiss The work of women and femmes is traditionally…

By Curated Content
October 18, 2021
50 Ways People Expect Constant Emotional Labor from Women and Femmes
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