Body and Sexuality
Editorial – The Body and Sexuality
Our most powerful, sexy, responsive and attractive sexual organ may be the mind, but it is through the body that we express and experience our sexuality. Our body is our first and primary home; whether we truly feel at home in it is another matter.
By TARSHI
June 16, 2023
Multi-bodied Magical Body
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By Shikha Aleya
June 16, 2023
Interview – Jyotsna Siddharth
Our bodies are the vessels through which we feel, emote, work or navigate our societies and the world at large. Our bodies are the real, live archive of everything we have experienced and they have borne the consequences of our social conditioning and decisions.
By Shikha Aleya
June 16, 2023
A Handful of Pills for this Body
The short-lived thinness had left me before I knew it. I became fat, and thereby undesirable, once again. A chasm appeared in my relationship with my body. Its ways of responding had become strange. My form became unfamiliar to me, and to those around me.
By Trijita
June 16, 2023
The desolation in the desired body-canvas
The first sensations that we experience are related to and derived from our body. It is a site of experience, expression and contemplation. The body is a means of voicing our deepest realisations, but how others visualise it can be a source of intense pain.
By Ria Basu
June 16, 2023
The Anatomy of a Queer Body
I smell the judgement
and the disappointment
of my parents as I enter the hall;
it stinks of their silence on my sexuality.
By Gokul Prabhu
June 16, 2023
Patriarchy Won’t Let Me Masturbate
That’s all the big roles and ethics
All there to fulfil.
Another task,
Another box to tick
Another concrete path to rush
Quick, simple and straight.
By Shashwat
June 16, 2023
मेरा दुबलापन, मेरी पहचान
मैं 9वीं कक्षा में थी, जब लोग मेरे शरीर के बारे में जो कहते थे वह मेरे अंदर उतरने लगा। मैंने पहली बार रुककर ध्यान दिया कि दूसरों की नज़र में मैं कैसी दिखती थी। यह अपने बारे में सचेत होने की शुरुआत थी, और ख़ुद से असहज होने की भी।
By Ekta Oza
June 16, 2023
शर्म से भरी – ‘अदृश्य’ होने का मेरा संघर्ष
वक़्त के साथ मैं समझने लगी कि सिर्फ़ शोषण नहीं, उससे उभरने की प्रक्रिया के साथ मेरा रिश्ता भी मेरा ‘औरत’ होना तय करता है। सदियों से ‘भारतीय नारी’ को हाशिए पर रखा गया है और उसे स्नेह और स्वीकृति सिर्फ़ तब तक दी जाती है जब तक वो अपनी ‘औक़ात’ के बाहर न निकले।
By Reva Puri
June 16, 2023
Brushstrokes: Hotel Rooms
For the last seven years, I have been working on a body of work titled Hotel Rooms themed around fluid male sexuality, mental health, queerness, and challenging deep-rooted societal gender binaries.
June 16, 2023
A tempestuous affair
The simple truth is that my body and I are having an affair. We each obsess about the other, ask questions and desire each other so much, that it often borders on the shameless. My body is more in love with me, I suspect, than the other way around.
By Pramada Menon
June 1, 2023
Neither Madonna nor MILF
For me, pregnancy was a strange state of being so present and so aware of my body, while at the same time being separate from it. This experience really did a number on me during those nine months and during the postpartum period.
By Tena Pick
June 1, 2023
June 1, 2023
Sins that can’t be washed away
Like some perverted Pavlovian desire,
the wafting smell of fresh soap
that fills up the air in the bath
has my pupils dilate when walking out.
By Hritvika Lakhera
June 1, 2023
Things other than maths I tried doing, and failed miserably
Waxing my body for the first time last year to have silky skin like the women on Veet’s box but ended up with rashes instead.
By Greeshma