Technology and Sexuality

The Editorial: Technology and Sexuality
An old woman with white hair, wearing a purple saree talking on a phone while carrying a heavy utensil on her head.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the…

By TARSHI
July 15, 2015
The Editorial: Technology and Sexuality
Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India
A woman sitting on floor, teaching something to some girls sitting in front of her on the floor in a house.

By Kirk L. Kroeker, Communications of ACM on 20/1/2011 Gayatri Buragohain, India’s ACM-W Ambassador and a member of the ACM…

By Curated Content
July 15, 2015
Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India
Brushstrokes: Songs of Selfies
Cut-outs of selfies of various people stuck on a yellow wall. On the top is pasted in black cut-out paper, "Exhibiting the self". Cut-outs of music symbols are pasted in between the selfies.

[slideshow_deploy id=’6357′] The songs of selfies played its colourful tune, with selfies coming out as musical notes from the gramophone kept…

By Curated Content
July 15, 2015
Brushstrokes: Songs of Selfies
Chahat Chowk: Reaching Out to Women
Two middle-aged women sitting in a recording room, wearing headphones, speaking into their table mikes. On the wall behind them is a poster that reads, "Gurgaon Awaaz 107.8 FM". One is wearing a green and maroon saree, and the other is wearing a white and pink Indian suit.

Attempting to talk about sexual health in an urban environment like Gurgaon is a bit like trying to pierce an…

By Arti Jaiman
July 15, 2015
Chahat Chowk: Reaching Out to Women
प्रजनन प्रौद्योगिकी – एक नारीवादी विश्लेषण
Photo zoomed in on a pregnant woman's belly, which is unclothed. Her hands rest at the top and bottom of her belly.

रुपसा मल्लिक द्वारा लिखित सोमिंदर कुमार द्वारा अनुवादित पिछले दो दशकों से प्रजनन प्रौद्योगिकी (रिप्रोडक्टिव टेक्नोलॉजी आरटी)[1] का उपयोग आम…

By Rupsa Mallik
July 15, 2015
प्रजनन प्रौद्योगिकी – एक नारीवादी विश्लेषण
Pleasure and Danger: The role of mobile phones in the intimate lives of adolescent girls in a Mumbai slum
Photo of an Indian girl in a school uniform, carrying her schol bag on her shoulders. Her hair are neatly set in two braids, tied with a black ribbon.

“My brother does not want me to buy a mobile phone. He says that there are already three phones in…

By Juhi Sidharth
July 1, 2015
Pleasure and Danger: The role of mobile phones in the intimate lives of adolescent girls in a Mumbai slum
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility
Still from film 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns'. A woman and a man in a wedding. The man holds a baby wrapped in a white cloth in his arms. The woman wears a red Indian suit, red bangles, and has open hair. The man wears a red turban and golden kurta.

What does Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015) have in common with Perumal Murugan’s controversial book, One Part Woman (2013)? Stories on emasculation…

By Shweta Krishnan
July 1, 2015
Review: What a controversial book and blockbuster tell us about male infertility
Reproductive Technologies – A Feminist Analysis
Photo zoomed in on a pregnant woman's belly, which is unclothed. Her hands rest at the top and bottom of her belly.

In the last two decades the use of reproductive technologies[1] (RTs) has become an inevitable and often indispensable part of…

By Rupsa Mallik
July 1, 2015
Reproductive Technologies – A Feminist Analysis
Being Fake, Being Online: Young Women’s Self-Expressions through Multiple Profiles on Social Media
Still from a video. A boy hugs a woman from behind. They look at each other in the mirror in front of them. The woman is holding a comb in her hand. The boy is wearing a checked black and white shirt.
July 1, 2015
Being Fake, Being Online: Young Women’s Self-Expressions through Multiple Profiles on Social Media
The ‘Filmy’ Body: Understanding pleasure and dance in public space
Still from a video with Urmila Matondkar.
July 1, 2015
The ‘Filmy’ Body: Understanding pleasure and dance in public space
A woman giving birth naturally in water at home
A woman giving birth in water. Her hair is tied in a pony tail, and she is wearing a pink bra.

[slideshow_deploy id=’6238′] While the field of reproductive health has been upgraded and equipped with the latest technology of the 21st…

By Curated Content
July 1, 2015
A woman giving birth naturally in water at home
Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World
Bishakha Datta with short hair, wearing green earrings, and a brown top.

Bishakha Datta is an Indian filmmaker, activist and a former journalist. She runs Point of View, a Mumbai based non-profit,…

By Shikha Aleya
July 1, 2015
Interview: Bishakha Datta on the Brave New (Digital) World
If the Internet Didn’t Exist
Photo of a young Indian woman. She is wearing black top, has curly hair, and is wearing glasses.

  If the Internet didn’t exist, I believe I would be a highly insecure person. Don’t read that the wrong…

By Ragamalika Karthikeyan
July 1, 2015
If the Internet Didn’t Exist
TROPES VS WOMEN IN VIDEO GAMES
Against a blue background, a woman stands dressed in a purple shirt, her hair tied up in a bun. The phrase'tropes v women' is written at her back.
July 1, 2015
TROPES VS WOMEN IN VIDEO GAMES
From hysteria to orgasms –The story of sex toys
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July 1, 2015
From hysteria to orgasms –The story of sex toys