Editorial

The Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda and Sexuality
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The Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda and Sexuality

“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.” ― Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work Development…
By TARSHI
September 15, 2015
The Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda and Sexuality
The Editorial: Let’s Talk Sexuality
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The Editorial: Let’s Talk Sexuality

“There is no sexuality without knowledge.” -Slavoj Žižek, Agitating the Frame Philospher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek writes and talks…
By TARSHI
August 15, 2015
The Editorial: Let’s Talk Sexuality
The Editorial: Technology and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Technology and Sexuality

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the…
By TARSHI
July 15, 2015
The Editorial: Technology and Sexuality
The Editorial: Body and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Body and Sexuality

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
The Editorial: Family and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Family and Sexuality

The trouble with the of the origin of families is that no one knows – Kathleen Gough In her 1971…
By TARSHI
May 15, 2015
The Editorial: Family and Sexuality
The Editorial: Mental Health and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Mental Health and Sexuality

“Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you…
By TARSHI
April 15, 2015
The Editorial: Mental Health and Sexuality
The Editorial: Women and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Women and Sexuality

What does it mean to be a woman? Are you born one, or as Simone De Beauvoir writes in The…
By TARSHI
March 16, 2015
The Editorial: Women and Sexuality
The Editorial: Comprehensive Sexuality Education
The Editorial: Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Remember the ‘first time’? And probably, you, like many of us, were plagued by fears of  ‘What if…?’ But instead…
By TARSHI
February 15, 2015
The Editorial: Comprehensive Sexuality Education
The Editorial: Music, Dance and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Music, Dance and Sexuality

“Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise that I dance like I have diamonds at the…
By TARSHI
January 15, 2015
The Editorial: Music, Dance and Sexuality
The Editorial: Anniversary Issue
The Editorial: Anniversary Issue

We are one year old! Yes, In Plainspeak has been publishing articles from around the Global South, especially India and…
By TARSHI
December 1, 2014
The Editorial: Anniversary Issue
The Editorial: Mobility and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Mobility and Sexuality

Movement. Stillness. Travel. Free flow. Restrictions. Borders. Us and Them. Movement takes us closer to our destinations and sometimes forced…
By TARSHI
November 1, 2014
The Editorial: Mobility and Sexuality
The Editorial: Popular Media and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Popular Media and Sexuality

“The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its…
By TARSHI
October 1, 2014
The Editorial: Popular Media and Sexuality
The Editorial: Sports and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Sports and Sexuality

Sports and Sexuality: many who hear the two terms together wonder how they are connected and what sexuality has got…
By TARSHI
September 1, 2014
The Editorial: Sports and Sexuality
The Editorial: Disability and Sexuality
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The Editorial: Disability and Sexuality

What can persons with disability do and not do? Can they have sex? Should they have sex? However well-intentioned they…
By TARSHI
August 1, 2014
The Editorial: Disability and Sexuality
The Editorial: Art and Activism
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The Editorial: Art and Activism

Art has the potential of reaching out to wide and diverse audiences and speaks to them in different ways. Therein…
By TARSHI
July 1, 2014
The Editorial: Art and Activism
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