Innovations and Sexuality Archives • In Plainspeak

डर के आगे जीत है!

·November 14, 2020
·Asmi

अपनी यौनिकता को समझने की कोशिश,अपने आप में एक नए किस्म का प्रयास है। इस बात का मतलब क्या है? आइये इस नूतनता को समझते हैं। सबसे पहले तो यही, कि हम अपने शरीर, उसकी यौन अभिव्यक्ति, और अलग-अलग तरीकों से आनंद का अनुभव करने की उसकी क्षमता को समझना चाहते हैं। इतना भर भी…

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Editorial: Innovations and Sexuality

·August 14, 2020
·TARSHI

In our mid-month issue, we continue to explore the theme of innovation and see how art is being increasingly used in innovative ways to highlight issues of sexuality and gender.

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Interview – Poornima Sukumar

·August 14, 2020
·Shikha Aleya

We advocate the idea of reclaiming spaces in society by creating large wall-mural projects to raise awareness and to create a voice for the community. We are now finding more innovative ways to engage the community to come out in public spaces, also using the Internet and social media, to feel confident, safe and a sense of belonging.

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Please Touch: Tactile Art as a Medium of Exploration

·August 14, 2020
·Isha Vajpeyi

Most of us, during childhood, internalised the lesson that sex or pleasure is ‘dirty’ and ‘bad’. Artists around the world are increasingly using ‘tactile art’ to challenge the shame and embarrassment that people feel when they look at their bodies.

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Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World

·August 14, 2020
·Neel

The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt.

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Sign Language, Language, Sexuality and Innovation

·August 14, 2020
·Vani Viswanathan

In a recent class, I asked Kanika and Tincy, our ISL teachers, how we could sign sexuality, and they asked, “How do you explain sexuality?” I wondered how I could sign ideas like attraction, pleasure, gender, values, and so on, but tried nevertheless, using my limited vocabulary, apologetic about being reductive.

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I May Have Called You Baby But It Doesn’t Mean I Want One!

·August 14, 2020
·Anjali

Some nights I worry that if birth control for men is indeed released, clinical trials of which were suspended in 2016 as its side effects, incidentally the same as what women have been dealing with for ages, were just not worth it, it would be named Fuckboi.

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Journey from Stigma to Pleasure

·August 14, 2020
·Pooja Singh and Ramneek Banga

For a long time, female bodies were considered similar to male bodies, just shorter, and most research and medical trials focused primarily on the male body with the assumption that the same would work on the female body.

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