Performance and Sexuality
Brushstrokes: #100DaysofLaundry
But what about the “moments we don’t Instagram”? What about the uglier parts of our physical lived realities? What about the parts of our body, our identities, our sexuality we don’t perform on social media, but are still an intrinsic part of who we are?
By Curated Content
September 4, 2018
Nanette: Of Universality and Difference
In Nanette, Hannah Gadsby’s hour-long Netflix special that transcends the very notions of stand-up comedy, forces of reclamation, protest, and rage culminate to form a darkly hilarious but heartbreaking diatribe against patriarchy, heteronormativity, violence and marginalisation.
By Anonymous
September 4, 2018
How to Have Good Sex?
During my interaction with students as a part of sexuality education classes in schools, one frequently asked question by boys is,“How to charm a girl?”
By Ramya Anand
September 4, 2018
Interview – Alok Vaid-Menon
In an e-mail conversation with TARSHI, Alok Vaid-Menon talks about both performativity and poetic performance.
By TARSHI Team
September 4, 2018
BDSM Play – Performance and Beyond
Just like sex can be happy, sad, awkward, angry and so many other emotions, rather than the mere act of pounding, so is BDSM.
By Asmi
September 4, 2018
I’m a Fennel for Now
“I’m afraid because I bring to bed more than just one soul of a scared conflicted boy. I’m bringing to bed a whole army that not only runs the streets within me but also spills out over my body and the body of the boy next to me.”
By Abdullah Erikat
September 4, 2018
Bodies in Motion: Dance Therapy as Mode of Healing and Empowerment
The dance therapy project therefore squarely locates itself as a supplement to economic skill building and psychological counselling, in developing a holistic sense of self among the women beneficiaries of the project.
By Raili Roy
September 4, 2018
Video Page: Baby Steps
In the short film, Baby Steps, a seemingly mundane Skype conversation between a mother and son turns into something more.
By Curated Content
September 4, 2018
Prescriptions of Proper
In a world of prescriptions of performance and perfection, there isn’t truly that much space built in to risk non-performance, not being perfect, or to risk not fitting the prescription.
By Shikha Aleya
September 4, 2018
Issue in Focus: Performance and Sexuality
To think of sexuality as performative disrupts the need for stable categories and identities, instead suggesting that we all reinforce and disrupt normative formations as we attempt to inhabit the world in messy ways.
By Sneha Krishnan
September 4, 2018
In Transit
I could have called it transformation instead of transitioning. But it became clear to me that transitioning does not necessarily imply a caterpillar-butterfly story but that it means a gradual acceptance of the self (and the self is ever-transitioning); of being comfortable in your own skin (even if it means shedding skin); of perfecting your act (even if it means learning a few new things).
By Rishit Wishit
September 17, 2018
The Labor of Expressing Femininity as a Disabled Woman
The nature of the labor that goes into performing femininity is that it’s invisible. Or at least it’s supposed to be. As a culture, we expect women to look glossy and shimmery and smooth. We don’t want to know about the time and money that goes into this presentation.
By Curated Content
September 17, 2018
‘Don’t They Realise We are Human?’: The Uneasy Alliance Between Fashion and Feminism
“Historically, feminism and fashion have been pitted against one another,” writes Manjima Bhattacharjya in her book, Mannequin. It’s a dilemma the fashion industry has struggled with for decades – being perceived as flippant, or existing in a vacuum”
By Curated Content
Outlander: A Review
Time and time again, Galbaldon asks us, through the character of Claire, to remember that we are travelers, we move and are moved by the interactions and environments around us.
By Dana Burton
September 17, 2018
Editorial: Performance and Sexuality
We are many selves. Or rather, like a series of Russian Matryoshka dolls nested one within the other, we perform…
By TARSHI
September 17, 2018