Femininities and Sexuality

Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality
A close-up photograph of a dandelion with dew. The dewdrops are differently coloured in the light.

Are certain forms of femininities denigrated more than others? Not just by misogynists but also by feminists? Is there a particular way of manifesting an ‘appropriate’ femininity, one that is just right, and is not ‘too girly’ or ‘too tomboyish’?

By TARSHI
December 15, 2020
Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality
Interview – Pavel Sagolsem

Pavel Sagolsem, self–described, is a storyteller, vagabond at heart and queer feminist by practice. Pavel is a founding partner of…

By Shikha Aleya
December 15, 2020
Interview – Pavel Sagolsem
Redefining Femininity

Surrounded mostly by women while growing up, and even now, my idea of femininity looks like masculinity and femininity combined….

By Sweta
December 15, 2020
Redefining Femininity
All the World’s a Stage
तीन लोगों की छाया-आकृतियाँ एक लाल, रोशन पर्दे के सामने एक दूसरे से कुछ दूरी पर अलग-अलग मुद्राओं में खड़ी हैं।

The ways I look at femininity have evolved as I have. Growing up in a space driven by dance and…

By Neel
December 15, 2020
All the World’s a Stage
That monster. That witch. That woman.

This article will not quench an inquisitive person’s thirst for answers to questions around gender, femininity, sexuality, horror, monsters, witches,…

By Anannya Chatterjee
December 15, 2020
That monster. That witch. That woman.
People Were Quick To Assign Me The Label Of Tomboy

This article was originally published in Feminism in India At the age of eight, dresses became scarce in my cupboard….

By Feminism in India
December 15, 2020
People Were Quick To Assign Me The Label Of Tomboy
The Gaysi Guide To Dressing Like A Lesbian

This article was originally published in Gaysifamily Posted by Srishti Berry Posted onApr 25 2020 In only a few simple steps…

By Curated Content
December 15, 2020
The Gaysi Guide To Dressing Like A Lesbian
जेंडर के ढाँचे से जूझता मेरा बचपन

यह लेख मूल रूप में फेमिनिज्म इन इंडिया में प्रकाशित हुआ था। शशांक मैं बचपन से ही बहुत ही नटखट,…

By Feminism in India
December 15, 2020
जेंडर के ढाँचे से जूझता मेरा बचपन
[COLUMN] THE GENDER BINARY: TERFS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This article was originally published on www.genderit.org. Nadika is a non-binary person based in Chennai. She writes and edits for a…

By Curated Content
December 15, 2020
[COLUMN] THE GENDER BINARY: TERFS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Tomboy Femininity
A photograph of the author, Di Sands

When I finally came out to myself at age 16 and made it to a free queer youth space, I couldn’t wait to be accepted among folks who didn’t play by society’s heterosexist rules of masculine and feminine as polar opposites.

By Di Sands
December 1, 2020
Tomboy Femininity
A ‘girly’ feminist
Two dandelion flowers in a glass vase on a pink background.

Desiring motherhood meant veering into a more ‘girly’ territory, a notion that I had simultaneously been fighting and trying to embrace since childhood. I had understood that to be a feminist I had to be independent, be wary of men, dislike families and relationships.

By Anubha Sarkar
December 1, 2020
A ‘girly’ feminist
Biscuit tin
On a pink background, a blue gift-wrapped box with a bow

I keep on hold the colours and prints to wrap you in gentle delicate flowers or little cartoon lions and boys with fists that say Bam and Super / until I know what lies between your legs the cigar or the smile of consolation if you’re the first

By Shikha Aleya
December 1, 2020
Biscuit tin
Churails: The Revolution Within Us All
A poster of the mini-series Churails. Two women can be seen sitting in a line. The first woman has a gun in her hands and the woman above her has a flask and hockey stick.

Their inimitable personalities showcase their varied conceptions of insaaf (justice), enriching and intensifying the plot and, at the same time, reaffirming their solidarity and strengthening their unity.

By Nupur Paliwal and Saloni Mishra
December 1, 2020
Churails: The Revolution Within Us All
Sweet Sixteen
An image of a half cut pear resembling the shape of a vagina. There are seeds around it.

At sixteen, the senior boy I loved, touched me down there and said, this is what boyfriends do, this is what love feels like – uncomfortable.

By Tapaswinee
December 1, 2020
Sweet Sixteen
Queer Heterosexual, Heterosexual Queer: Two Tales of Queer Love 100 Years Apart
A poster of the film ‘Chitrangada’ by Rituparno Ghosh. In the poster, the protagonists are caressing each other

The lovers enact many recognizable hetero-normative romantic tropes – the wronged petulant woman pacified via kisses and caresses, the woman too tired for sex who then tries to placate the sulking male lover.

By Mamatha Karollil
December 1, 2020
Queer Heterosexual, Heterosexual Queer: Two Tales of Queer Love 100 Years Apart
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