Editorial

Editorial – Narratives and Sexuality
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Stories hold power. They shape how we understand the world, and if they are stories of distorted facts and falsehoods, they spread unease, discord and hatred. But stories also allow us to imagine other possibilities; they give us hope that we can overcome oppression and injustice.

By TARSHI
March 17, 2023
Editorial – Narratives and Sexuality
Editorial – Accessibility and Sexuality
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If you were the CEO of a company and your office were on the 40th floor of a building in…

By TARSHI
February 16, 2023
Editorial – Accessibility and Sexuality
Editorial – Anthology Issue
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Happy New Year! We have curated this anthology to remind you and ourselves of the gift and wonder of possibilities.

By TARSHI
January 3, 2023
Editorial – Anthology Issue
Editorial – Queering Sexuality
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Queering transcends the confines of symmetry and is a way of looking, of breaking established meaning, of making new meaning, and of being and becoming that offers us the promise of fluidity, flux and freedom. 

By TARSHI
December 12, 2022
Editorial – Queering Sexuality
Editorial – Connections and Sexuality
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Questions, questions and inevitably more questions! That seems to be the human condition when it comes to connections, especially our connections with other people. It’s complicated, right?

By TARSHI
November 15, 2022
Editorial – Connections and Sexuality
Editorial – Mental Health and Sexuality
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Mental health, much like physical health, is a state of wellbeing and not just the absence of disease or infirmity. Because each of us is unique, with our own particular temperaments, quirks and histories, we may react to situations differently. However, our wellbeing is affected not only by our individual traits but also by social, cultural and other systemic factors.
By TARSHI
September 19, 2022
Editorial – Mental Health and Sexuality
With Love: A Special Issue on Sexuality, Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Self-care
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Any conversation on sexuality cannot exclude engagement with the myriad ways in which taboos around sexuality, the privileging of heteronormative ideals, the violence and marginalisation faced by people deviating from norms of sexuality and gender affect our mental health and well-being.
By TARSHI
June 15, 2022
With Love: A Special Issue on Sexuality, Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Self-care
Editorial – Movement and Sexuality
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This issue of In Plainspeak while inviting us to embrace the joys and pleasure in movement, also questions the ways in which movements are facilitated or obstructed, visibilised or invisibilised, and the spaces that we must envision to find freedom in/to movement.

By TARSHI
May 19, 2022
Editorial – Movement and Sexuality
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
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A space can make us feel constricted or liberated, and sometimes even both at the same and at varying times. The combination of spaces that we may be occupying in the moment, as well as those we have in the past, predisposes us to act, feel and experience our sexuality in different ways.

By TARSHI
April 18, 2022
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
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100 issues, 8 years! Thank you, dear readers and contributors! As we planned for this issue to put on our…

By TARSHI
March 15, 2022
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
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If we are to reimagine coupledom and sexuality, we need to expand and challenge our ideas about togetherness, romance, love, intimacy, desire, sex, attachment, and so on.

By TARSHI
February 15, 2022
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
Editorial – Sexuality and SISA Spaces
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We envision SISA spaces as non-judgmental, inclusive, rights-based and affirming spaces wherein people’s sexuality, their identities, wellbeing, choices, desires and pleasure are respected.

By TARSHI
January 3, 2022
Editorial – Sexuality and SISA Spaces
Editorial – Play and Sexuality
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Coupled with the tendency to approach sexuality with seriousness, play often remains absent in discussions of sexuality. Sexuality shares the elements of fun, pleasure and spontaneity that are found in play.

By TARSHI
December 15, 2021
Editorial – Play and Sexuality
Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality
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Members of a fandom are not just passive consumers but active co-creators who imagine and build new worlds around their objects of adoration. Fandom communities offer fans the freedom of being able to imagine, create and share all sorts of scenarios, including romantic, erotic and sexual ones.

By TARSHI
November 15, 2021
Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality
Editorial: Labour and Sexuality

In the mid-month issue, Meena Gopal and Tejaswi Sevekari offer us feminist reflections on labour and sexuality, taking us deeper into unpacking how issues of labour and sexuality are intricately woven with social locations, primarily those of caste and class, among others in a caste-based society such as ours.

By TARSHI
October 18, 2021
Editorial: Labour and Sexuality
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