Editorial
Editorial April 2025 – Masculinities and Sexuality
It’s time to scrape off the thick dark crusts of carelessly slapped-on murky hues of toxic masculinities and to bring out the brushes and the paints to paint masculinities in their true and glorious colours of life, freedom and love.
By TARSHI
April 17, 2025
Editorial – Consent and Sexuality
Looking down upon the earth from many miles up in the sky, the divisions between land masses and water bodies…
By TARSHI
March 17, 2025
January 13, 2025
Editorial – Parents, Teachers, and CSE
Each time a child or adolescent asks a question that may be (even indirectly) related to sexuality, many parents and teachers get squirmy and nervous. This may be because they themselves do not have the information required, but in most cases, it has more to do with the ‘hush-hush’ that surrounds sexuality.
By TARSHI
December 18, 2024
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality
Gender and sexuality are like constituent parts of a jigsaw puzzle that keeps morphing in such a way that nothing ever ‘fits’ for long, and the game begins anew each time.
By TARSHI
November 19, 2024
Editorial – Workplaces and Sexuality
Sexuality and the workplace are closely related, and a safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental human right.
By TARSHI
September 18, 2024
Editorial – Queering as a Way of Life
Queering is not about being queer but about doing queer – about going beyond binaries of gender and sexuality, questioning accepted perspectives, and challenging and upending normative ways of being in the world.
By TARSHI
July 22, 2024
Editorial – The Pandemic and Sexuality
This month’s offering of articles, poems and fiction is an eclectic mix that (mostly) reflects what was borne out of the pandemic, and its impact on sexuality, intimacy, relationships, and more.
By TARSHI
May 16, 2024
Editorial – Entertainment and Sexuality
So much power and so much reach in the case of entertainment can be used as a force for good or for its opposite.
By TARSHI
March 18, 2024
Editorial: 2024 Anthology Issue
In a world increasingly riven by suspicion, hatred and destruction, it feels awkward to say “Happy New Year!” But then,…
By TARSHI
January 11, 2024
Editorial – Digital Spaces and Sexuality
Digital entanglements transcend bodies, time, geographical borders and boundaries, influencing – and perhaps fundamentally changing – the ways in which we understand, explore and express our sexuality.
By TARSHI
December 18, 2023
Editorial – Fashion and Sexuality
In tailoring the way we present ourselves to the world – be it as fashionista, frump or an artful fusion of the two – we think we are the ones making a choice about how we express our gender and sexuality along with other markers of our identity.
By TARSHI
October 19, 2023
Editorial – Comprehensive Sexuality Education
While there is an oversaturation of information on sexuality, accurate, inclusive and affirming information is few and far between. Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) offers us multiple pathways to address these dilemmas.
By TARSHI
August 25, 2023
Editorial – Food and Sexuality
Food unites, but as we are sadly witnessing, it also divides. What people eat and how they eat it is related in many ways to class, caste, purchasing power, and other factors of social currency and control.
By TARSHI
July 17, 2023
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