Spaces and Sexuality
समीक्षा: रेनबो रौवेल के उपन्यास फैनगर्ल में फैनडम का समस्यात्मक प्रदर्शन
कैथ के किरदार और उसके जीवन को दिखाया जाना वास्तव में उन अनगिनत फैनगर्ल्स के प्रति अन्याय ही कहा जाएगा जो एक फैन के रूप में अपनी पहचान को अपने वास्तविक सामाजिक और यौनिक जीवन व रुझानों पर कभी भी हावी नहीं होने देती।
By Rohini Banerjee
मेरी खता नहीं – सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर मेरा भी अधिकार
बदलाव का एक निर्माण खंड कुछ ऐसे उदहारण प्रस्तुत करना है कि सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर लोगों का सकारात्मक व्यवहार कैसा होना चाहिए | उन्हें देख कर पता चलता है कि किस तरह समुदाय के सभी लोग – चाहे मित्र हों या परिचित – कैसे सौहार्दपूर्वक प्रगतिशील जीवन जीते हैं।
By Yuleidy Merida
April 1, 2022
यौनिकता व सामाजिक वर्गभेद – ऑनलाइन माध्यमों की बदलाव लाने की क्षमता
डिजिटल माध्यमों तक पहुँच आसान हो जाने से उपेक्षित वर्ग भी अब यौनिकता से जुड़ी सामग्री को देखने, पढ़ने और तैयार कर पाने में सक्षम हुए हैं और इस तरह की जानकारी तक पहुँच पाने में उनके सामने पहले आने वाली कठिनाईयाँ अब दूर होती नज़र आ रही है।
By Rupsa Mallik
Video: Queering Public Space
How can we queer public spaces and what does it actually take? Can a particular kind of lighting, or adding…
By Curated Content
April 1, 2022
Brushstrokes: Queering the Map
How can we envision a queer approach that counters exclusionary practices? Queering the Map, launched in 2017 by Canadian designer…
By Curated Content
April 1, 2022
The Construction of Women as Spaces
This article explores how women are constructed as a ‘space’ manufactured by men to seek comfort, but void of having any active agency or participation in that space itself. I seek to bring this out in this article by drawing a parallel between the nineteenth century ‘Bharat Mata’ (Mother India) and the depiction of the twenty-first century ‘heroine’ in Bollywood movies.
By Tanvi Chattoraj
April 1, 2022
The Gendered Muscle in Gym Spaces
I can recall my experiences in the washrooms of different gyms that I have been a member of. A men’s washroom is an interesting place in terms of how sexuality manifests itself in its various aspects. It was not unusual to see men of various kinds with strange energies in these washrooms.
By Shiva Chauhan
April 1, 2022
Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces
While sex workers face repeated harassment by the police, many young couples face threats in a one-off incident if the police finds them with their partner/lover. They may face police surveillance of expressions of intimacy and affection in public.
By Shruti Arora
April 1, 2022
Looking For Someone To Talk To
I would say that growing up in a small village would make it difficult to find love or companionship, but I have since moved to a city and found that it was difficult to find love there, too. It did not stop me from trying, though.
By Wesley D'Souza
April 1, 2022
A ‘Room’ of One’s Own – Sexuality, Self-expression, and Safe Spaces on Clubhouse
In theory, the concept of the app is a great one – it provides women, queer people, and people belonging to oppressed castes the tea-stall, cigarette-shop type of public spaces for conversation that are available to upper-caste cis het men. The relative anonymity acts like a safe cover, and the app affords a certain autonomy and agency to marginalised people to regulate the kind of conversation that goes on in rooms moderated by them.
By Srishti Gupta
Interview – Sameera Khan
But what has been amazing to witness is how quickly young women in particular, took to the ideas of Why Loiter? and pushed them even further, creating new movements to expand women’s rights to the public, including the right to be out late at night, to stretch the curfew at women’s hostels, to demand extended access to women’s toilets, to public transport etc.
By Shikha Aleya
April 1, 2022
Place and Gender: Towards Feminist and Inclusive Cities
This post was originally posted here. By Nivea Jain September 30, 2021 — While the social dimensions of gender inequality…
By Curated Content
April 18, 2022
On Healing: Envisioning Safe Queer Spaces And Practicing Accountability
This post was originally posted here. By Trishala Dutta October 28, 2021 — TW: Mention of violence and abuse Between…
By Feminism in India
QUEER ON THE INTERNET: THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY
This post was originally posted here. By A. Salman May 27, 2021 — “I really lack the imagining of a…
By Curated Content
April 18, 2022
घर पर रहने के इच्छुक एक पिता की दास्तान
महिला और पुरुष की भूमिकाएँ अलग-अलग जगह, परिस्थितियों, लोगों और उनकी आर्थिक स्थिति के आधार पर बदलती रहती हैं। समय के साथ हो रहे इन बदलावों को देखते हैं लेकिन इन बदलावों से निपटना उन लोगो के लिए आसान नहीं जो इनसे गुज़रते हैं।
By Anees Rao
April 18, 2022