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
Body + a million This article: written, read, edited, uploaded on to the internet, heard using assistive software, converted into…
By Shikha Aleya
June 16, 2023
Interview – Jyotsna Siddharth
Jyotsna Siddharth is an artist, actor, activist and writer who has been working on DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) with non-profit,…
By Shikha Aleya
June 16, 2023
A Handful of Pills for this Body
Around the age of 22, I made up my mind to make my body smaller. I worked out, imposed food…
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,…
By Ria Basu
June 16, 2023
The Anatomy of a Queer Body
Please tread gently. This poem has potentially disturbing content. I see death, perched at my window.Sometimes, they even sit on…
By Gokul Prabhu
June 16, 2023
Patriarchy Won’t Let Me Masturbate
A man must do it all with a ‘hard edge’A little rough, nasty, brutishWith courage and temperance, wisdom and justiceWith…
By Shashwat
June 16, 2023
मेरा दुबलापन, मेरी पहचान
इसमें से कौन सा सवाल ख़ुद से पूछना वाजिब होगा – मुझे पहली बार कब अहसास हुआ कि मैं दुबली…
By Ekta Oza
June 16, 2023
शर्म से भरी – ‘अदृश्य’ होने का मेरा संघर्ष
कहां गया मेरा बदन? ये सवाल मैंने पिछले दो सालों में ख़ुद से कई बार पूछा है। लंबे समय तक…
By Reva Puri
June 16, 2023
Brushstrokes: Hotel Rooms
Duration: 2015 – ongoingMedium: Albumen Prints from digital negatives. I was perceived as too ‘feminine’ throughout my adolescence. I faced…
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