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A two-panel comic. A man in white pants and tucked-in white shirt stands behind a woman who is wearing similar clothing. She looks to the side while working on some machine at the table. She says with a stern face to him, "I am a bit busy to smile. Stand back while I test the laser."

Adeanna Cooke:
International model, featured in Playboy,
Established hacker and amateur computer programmer.

By Shikha Aleya

June 5, 2016

Issue in Focus: Hackers and High Heels

Issue In Focus: Baboochamuffins and Other Musings

Why are certain privileges only afforded to couples? Why can we not share them with others outside of a romantic or sexual paradigm? Why is intimacy seen as being the purview of lovers? In actual fact, we may often share a greater intimacy with our friends than we do with our lovers.

By Radhika Chandiramani

May 1, 2016

Issue In Focus: Baboochamuffins and Other Musings

Issue In Focus: Is ‘Dhanda’ (Sex Business) Work? – II

Six sex workers dressed up in sarees on a stage, smiling. Screen reader support enabled. Six sex workers dressed up in sarees on a stage, smiling.

Is business work? Can business that involves providing sexual services be understood as work? If work is any mental or physical activity performed for a result, then for the individual performing the activity sex work is work. If work is any activity performed as a means of survival, then sex work is work.

By Meena Saraswathi Seshu and Aarthi Pai

April 18, 2016

Issue In Focus: Is ‘Dhanda’ (Sex Business) Work? – II

A protest by sex workers. They are wearing sarees, holding red umbrellas, and placards reading "Stop policing our morals", "Sexual rights are human rights".

Sex work is adult consensual provision of sexual services for money. What part of this definition challenges the notion of work? A service provided for money? A service provided by adults for money? A service provided consensually by adults for money? None of the above.

By Meena Saraswathi Seshu and Aarthi Pai

April 5, 2016

Issue In Focus: Is ‘Dhanda’ (Sex Business) Work? – I

क्या ‘धंधा’ (सेक्स वर्क) भी काम होता है? – भाग १

किसी व्यस्क व्यक्ति द्वारा अपनी इच्छा से पैसों के भुगतान के बदले दी जाने वाली यौन सेवाओं को सेक्स वर्क (यौन कर्म या आम बोलचाल की भाषा में धंधा करना) कहते हैं। सेक्स वर्क की इस परिभाषा का कौन सा भाग ‘काम’ के बारे में हमारी सोच का उल्लंघन करता है? क्या पैसे के बदले दी जाने वाली सेवाएं? या फिर किसी व्यस्क व्यक्ति द्वारा पैसे के बदले दी जाने वाली सेवा? या, वयस्कों द्वारा आपसी सहमति से पैसे के बदले दी जाने वाली सेवा?

By Meena Saraswathi Seshu and Aarthi Pai

April 5, 2016

क्या ‘धंधा’ (सेक्स वर्क) भी काम होता है? – भाग १

Painting of a woman standing free and elegantly on top of a moving bus, at sunset. Her hair flows back and one arm and leg are raised up in a graceful motion. From her hair flows bright pink and white glitter,

Travel and sexuality throws up different thoughts and feelings for us all. For me, it threw up the term travelling sexuality. I like it. Travelling sexuality. It sounds exotic or intellectual, adventurous, dangerous, depending on who you are and how you live life. A travelling sexuality could describe the way we evolve as sexual beings, shifting and changing identities.

By Shikha Aleya

March 1, 2016

Issue In Focus: A Travelling Sexuality