Mobility and Sexuality

Brushstrokes: Featuring Humans of New York
A woman dressed in a black sweater and a green hijab, wearing dark-rimmed glasses

[slideshow_deploy id=’4422′] These are photographs from the now famous collection Humans of New York. Photographer Brandon Staunton has been navigating…

By Curated Content
November 1, 2014
Brushstrokes: Featuring Humans of New York
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
Neenu Kewlani (centre), Gopika Anand (right) and Divya Arora. the winners of the first Miss Wheelchair India contest, decked up in colourful sarees and makeup

… the heroine an amputee on a microprocessor controlled prosthetic leg with a hydraulic foot and ankle system raises her…

By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2014
Mobility and sexuality – Re-writing common perceptions
The Invisible Mother: The ‘Stigma’ of Surrogacy
The pregnant bellies of three women standing in a line. One of them wears a green saree, the other two wear red sarees.

Mobility is undertaken for varied reasons across contemporary global spaces. One emerging reason for travel and mobility is reproduction. ‘Reproductive…

By Sama
November 1, 2014
The Invisible Mother: The ‘Stigma’ of Surrogacy
Interview: Debanuj DasGupta
Photo of gay activist Debanuj Dasgupta. He is wearing a brown sweater and cap, and has a thick beard.
November 1, 2014
Interview: Debanuj DasGupta
Video: Trailer of ‘Beyond Boundaries’
A white board with a couple of polaroid pictures and the text "Beyond Boundaries: Experiences of Immigrants with Diverse Sexualities". The words "With love to the GLBT office, Betsy" are written in permanent marker
November 1, 2014
Video: Trailer of ‘Beyond Boundaries’
Sex talk
A picture of birth control pills in various colours

Half an hour into the bus trip from Chisinau to the village where I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer…

By Erik Heinonen
November 1, 2014
Sex talk
Intersections between Mental Health and Human Rights: The case of transwomen and transmen in Malaysia
An infographic talking about how to be a good trans ally

Last week, I was at The Third International Conference on Human Rights and Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia organised…

By Vizla Kumaresan
November 1, 2014
Intersections between Mental Health and Human Rights: The case of transwomen and transmen in Malaysia
I-Column: A Trip To The Ladies’
Two blue doors against a white wall, one having 'gents' and the othe rhaving 'ladies' written over it. beside them, there is a white sink.

Remember Simone de Beauvoir said, one is not born a woman but rather becomes one? A trip to the ladies’…

By Shweta Krishnan
November 1, 2014
I-Column: A Trip To The Ladies’
The Editorial: Mobility and Sexuality
a picture of female migrant workers carrying vessels on their head

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
Loitering while Female…
Picture of a street with a few kids milling about on bicycles

When one travels as a woman or indeed as someone who is not an upper caste, middle or upper class,…

By Shilpa Phadke
November 1, 2014
Loitering while Female…
Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry (2010)
Cover of the book 'Working the Night Shift' with the title written in white against a dark background. The subtitle: "Women in India's Call Center Industry" is written below in orange text.

The book ‘Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry’describes the different spatial and temporal conditions that are…

By Aindrila Chaudhuri
November 1, 2014
Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry (2010)
Migration, Gender and Identity in the New Political Economy
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Migration is synonymous with change. Migration of an individual from one place to another involves fundamental changes in attributes that…

By Mansi Wadhwa
November 1, 2014
Migration, Gender and Identity in the New Political Economy
बर्लिन में
An abstract painting of various shades of green and blue

जब शाम ढली, हम सभी सड़क के चिराग हो गए। क्रॉयज़बर्ग बस रौशनी था – और सस्ते कबाब – हरी दीवारें,…

By Akhil Katyal
November 1, 2014
बर्लिन में
Child, interrupted
Picture of a child's mouth being covered by a pair of hands

The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s conviction of two British paedophiles last week. But there are many other cases…

By Curated Content
November 15, 2014
Child, interrupted
A Review Essay: The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
Picture of black barbed wire against the backdrop of a clear blue sky

The Sexuality of Migration speaks only to gay men from Mexico. It is reticent on the issues of other non-normative sexualities such…

By Curated Content
November 15, 2014
A Review Essay: The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
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