Body and Sexuality

What History And Fiction Teach Us About Women And Power
women and power

This article was originally published in the NPR. January 8, 2018; TANIA LOMBROZO Two recent books, one a manifesto by British…

By Curated Content
July 16, 2018
What History And Fiction Teach Us About Women And Power
The Editorial: Body and Sexuality
Abstract drawng of a distorted face painted in blue and yellow

In one sense, the body is what I immediately am. In another sense, I am separated from it by the…

By TARSHI
June 17, 2015
The Editorial: Body and Sexuality
Run for your body, Run No Way!
Illustration of a naked woman with paint smeared across her body throwing her arms up in the air in joy and abandon

It’s sad that we think we own our bodies: the bodies we love, the bodies we hate, the bodies we…

By Abdullah Erikat
June 17, 2015
Run for your body, Run No Way!
Bodies Intercepted: Inside Medical Wards
A amn lying in a hospital bed, while a nurse stands near him and says 'I don't need informed consent to give you a sponge bath.'

The medical ward is often continuous with the world around it. One would like to think of it as an…

By Shweta Krishnan
June 17, 2015
Bodies Intercepted: Inside Medical Wards
Beauty
A pair of hands with wrinkles on them holding each other. One of the hands is wearing a gold band on their ring finger

And all my life I’ve lived alone. What it means to be beautiful, I’ve never known. I’ve had partners but…

By Almas Shamim
June 17, 2015
Beauty
Blood On Our Skirts
Picture of white fabric stained with red paint

[slideshow_deploy id=’6158′] I remember the first time I learnt of menstruation as a ten year old. One of our friends…

By Shambhawi Vikram
June 17, 2015
Blood On Our Skirts
Sex, the City and Hypocrisy
A fogged glass window with the word 'Delhi' outlined in it

India is home to a whopping 17.5% of the total world population. Half of this population is its women. No, correction,…

By Guest Writer
June 17, 2015
Sex, the City and Hypocrisy
‘Trans Bodies, Trans Selves’: A Modern Manual By And For Trans People
Book cover for 'Trans Bodies, Trans Selves', showing a collage of bright colours with the name of book and author written on it

This article was originally published at NPR.org The growing number of people who identify as transgender is raising a lot…

By Curated Content
June 17, 2015
‘Trans Bodies, Trans Selves’: A Modern Manual By And For Trans People
निधि गोयल के साथ बातचीत
A picture of disabillity rights activist nidhi goyal

भारत के मुंबई शहर में रहने वाली निधि गोयल जेंडर और विकलांगता से जुड़े अधिकारों की पैरवीकार हैं। अनिषा दत्त…

By Anisha Dutt
June 1, 2015
निधि गोयल के साथ बातचीत
Films of Desire/Bodies of Desire
Still from the film 'Margarita with a Straw' showing actress Kalki Koechlin being given a bath by actress Revathy

The Church says: the body is a sin Science says: the body is a machine Advertising says: the body is…

By Geetanjali Misra
June 1, 2015
Films of Desire/Bodies of Desire
Silencing love: Negotiating Sexuality In School Life
एक लड़की के चेहरे की तस्वीर है। लड़की का रंग गेंहुआ है, नाक में नथनी पहनी है, बिंदी लगायी है, आँखों में काजल, कानो में झुमके और बाल थोड़े बिखरे हुए है और कुछ चेहरे पर आ रहे है |

My experience of school, as I remember it, was quite conflicted. As a child I lacked the vocabulary to describe…

By Meghna Bohidar
June 1, 2015
Silencing love: Negotiating Sexuality In School Life
Brushstrokes
Picture of three women standing in line, dressed in various bright clothing.

[slideshow_deploy id=’6065′] The following photographs question our notions of beauty and an ‘ideal’ body. Rahul Saharan shot a series of…

By Curated Content
June 1, 2015
Brushstrokes
Interview: Nidhi Goyal
Photo of disability rights activist Nidhi Goyal. She is wearing golden hoop earrings and has her hair tied in a ponytail

Nidhi Goyal is a gender and disability rights activist from Mumbai, India.  Anisha Dutt: Your journey as a disability and gender rights activist…

By Anisha Dutt
June 1, 2015
Interview: Nidhi Goyal
The Body In Development Speak
A woman in a black saree and white blouse faces a red wall, so that only her back is visible

It’s (already!) mid-2015: advocates, activists, development workers, policy wonks working on the ‘new development agenda’ or ‘sustainable development goals’ or…

By Rishita Nandagiri
June 1, 2015
The Body In Development Speak
Somebody Else’s Dolly
Collage of photos of women with locomotor disabilities in seductive poses

The body is our tangible hacker of the world. It experiences the world and the world experiences it. I do…

By Shikha Aleya
June 1, 2015
Somebody Else’s Dolly
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