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The Editorial: HIV and Sexuality
On World AIDS Day, we published the first issue of this month’s In Plainspeak with the theme HIV and Sexuality. Global funding…
By TARSHI
December 15, 2015
The Serious Dangers of ‘High Risk Group’ing in HIV and AIDS Prevention
Sex has always been at the core of HIV and AIDS since the virus was first identified almost 30 years…
By Sankhya Bommana
December 15, 2015
Positive Power!
On the occasion of World AIDS Day 2015, I could not help but ponder on what the day means to…
By Curated Content
December 15, 2015
A World Away: HIV in Central Asia
In the spring of 2005, working with a medical NGO, I and five colleagues (two critical care flight paramedics, a…
By Curated Content
December 15, 2015
An Indefinite Sentence: Love, Homophobia and the AIDS Panic in 1980s India
I WAS 26 YEARS OLD in 1988, living in Delhi, where I had recently moved after several years as a…
By Curated Content
Charlie Sheen Put a Spotlight on HIV and Sex Workers. But Here’s What’s Missing From the Conversation.
In the wake of Charlie Sheen’s announcement that he was HIV-positive, there was talk of how it would affect the…
By Curated Content
December 15, 2015
Criminalising HIV
JOHANNESBURG – “If the law supposes that,” Mr. Bumble says in Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, “the law is an…
By Curated Content
December 14, 2015
Building Solidarity amongst Diverse and Marginalised Communities at SANGRAM, Sangli: Part 1
A gradual process of inclusion; engaging and understanding exclusion In 1992, health and human rights NGO, SANGRAM, recognised the need…
By SANGRAM
Brushstrokes: Everyday Lives
[slideshow_deploy id=’7634′] In 2006, Indian-born artist and photographer Sunil Gupta created a series of photographs of the daily lives of…
By Curated Content
December 1, 2015
The Editorial: Feminism and Sexuality
“Ab dil karta hai haule haule se Main toh khud ko gale lagaun Kisi aur ki mujhko zaroorat kya Main…
By TARSHI
November 15, 2015
How I Became a Feminist, and Other Mundane Things
I did not know what feminism meant, but I remember being told I’m too rough for a girl. Or, was…
November 15, 2015
Talking about Gender and Sexuality as a Feminist Mother: It Only Gets More Complicated
“Mamma, look, that’s a boy giraffe, I can see his penis,” exclaims my four-year-old daughter in delight at her discovery…
By Shilpa Phadke
New Project Sheds Light on Pakistan’s Lesser Known Feminist History
[slideshow_deploy id=’7496′] It had been there for decades — a red, blue and white flag unfurling in the wind, an…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2015
Feminism, Marriage, and the Dilemma
Before I was introduced to theatre and the arts in the 11th standard, the future I saw for myself was…
By Jyotsna Khatry
November 15, 2015