Brushstrokes

The Masques Of Masculinity
A hand-drawn comic that shows a man setting up his date that he met on Grindr
The Masques Of Masculinity

Z is forced to wear the mask of masculinity, a mask made of the various tropes of stereotypical masculine energy…
By Hardik Jain and Shrusti Mulgund
April 17, 2025
The Masques Of Masculinity
Find Yourself – A Triptych
The words Find and Yourself appear large in the centre of the illustration. Find has indents across the middle that makes it seem as though the letters are flowing into each other in order. Yourself has similar indentations flowing backwards. In the background we see several vaginal and sex toy shapes, further behind we see colourful blobs.
Find Yourself – A Triptych

As we grow and experience intimate relationships, pleasure becomes taboo or is only okay as a performance for another person, rather than our right as human beings.
By Suryaa Rajan
November 19, 2024
Find Yourself – A Triptych
Brushstrokes: The Many Shades of Fashion
A comic panel. At the top is text against a white backgound which reads, "Yes, sometimes we are caught in the web." 2/3rd of the panel has yellow background with a illustration of a feminine-presenting character laying on a spider web. The character is wearing a dark pink tank top, pink skirt and heels, and is carrying a bag that reads "GUCCI" on top. Along the web are the words "Male-gaze", "Gender norms", "Objectification", "Sexism", "Body-Shaming", "Patriarchy", and "Capitalism".
Brushstrokes: The Many Shades of Fashion

For many people, fashion serves as a vehicle for expressing their unique identities, their political beliefs, and their sexual orientation.
By Pragya Solanki
October 19, 2023
Brushstrokes: The Many Shades of Fashion
Brushstrokes: Bodies, Beauty and Boundaries
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Brushstrokes: Bodies, Beauty and Boundaries

Women’s bodies are considered as symbols of izzat and abru (honour and dignity) making it the woman’s responsibility to ‘protect’ her sexuality, while at the same time, her sexuality is controlled by patriarchs.
By Rinku
August 10, 2023
Brushstrokes: Bodies, Beauty and Boundaries
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates
An illustration of a feminine-presenting person wearing ornate headgear, jewellery and drapped in a pink veil. The person is positioned against a green background. A four-directional peacock design acts as a frame around the person. Inside the frame are the symbols for male, female and intersex. Along the four corners, the following words are written in red in Hijra Farsi: initiation, singing, clapping and death.
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates

This art collection bears the evocative title “Aching Palates”. Within its realm, each artwork embodies an emblematic act that accompanies…
By Anoushka Budhia
July 17, 2023
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates
Brushstrokes: Hotel Rooms
A nude self-portrait of the photographer taken from the back. Most of the image is black and dark. His limbs, torso, and head can be roughly made out.
Brushstrokes: Hotel Rooms

For the last seven years, I have been working on a body of work titled Hotel Rooms themed around fluid male sexuality, mental health, queerness, and challenging deep-rooted societal gender binaries.
By Ankit Banerjee
June 16, 2023
Brushstrokes: Hotel Rooms
Brushstrokes: Body in Sexuality
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Brushstrokes: Body in Sexuality

Body is born, as a collection of many parts, into the various collections of bodies. Different combinations or collections are projected onto various historical, spatial and temporal dimensions, out of our needs, desires and capabilities.
By Abhinand Kishore
June 1, 2023
Brushstrokes: Body in Sexuality
Brushstrokes: Queering the Map
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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
Brushstrokes: Queering the Map
Brushstrokes – Scribbles
A black-and-white line drawing of a woman with wavy hair, multiple necklaces including one with a beetle pendant, earrings in the shape of a dice. There are stars on her face, and the only colour in the artwork is in the woman’s eyelids, which have been conceptualised as rainbows.
Brushstrokes – Scribbles

Scribbles: an Escape From the Mundane is a product of my thoughts and emotions when I was struggling to understand my sexuality and grappling with the idea of identifying with the spectrum of gender and sexuality outside the binary, but not being able to put a label on it.
By Nishita Kamdar
March 1, 2022
Brushstrokes – Scribbles
Brushstrokes – Celebrating Sexuality
Celebrating Sexuality
Brushstrokes – Celebrating Sexuality

Taboos in relation to female desire, sexuality and the body are often addressed in my work. My recent artistic interest focuses on rituals that are primarily centred on agricultural communities in Bengal that involve the veneration of fertility symbols and celebration of feminine sexuality.
By Mitali Das
March 1, 2022
Brushstrokes – Celebrating Sexuality
Brushstrokes: Why Being Asexual Doesn’t Mean I’m ‘Broken’
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Brushstrokes: Why Being Asexual Doesn’t Mean I’m ‘Broken’

There are a lot of prejudices and misconceptions about asexual people. This comic on Everyday Feminism sensitises us to asexuality through a deeply felt real-life story of finding love as an asexual person.
By Curated Content
February 1, 2022
Brushstrokes: Why Being Asexual Doesn’t Mean I’m ‘Broken’
Brushstrokes: Who We’re Leaving Out of Sex Positivity – And How to Make It More Inclusive
Brushstrokes: Who We’re Leaving Out of Sex Positivity – And How to Make It More Inclusive

This post was originally published here. While sex-positive spaces affirm our right to pleasurable sexuality, they might leave out experiences…
By Curated Content
January 3, 2022
Brushstrokes: Who We’re Leaving Out of Sex Positivity – And How to Make It More Inclusive
Graphic Story: The First Move
Graphic of a person at an office desk. The person is reclining on a chair with hands behind their head and looks relaxed. There is a mug of warm beverage, a desktop, a keyboard and a mouse on the table. On the upper left corner is the title of the graphic story that reads “The First Move…” Right below with is the credits to the writer and illustrator, Priya Dali and text reads “Written and illustrated by Priya Dali”. Below it is another line of text - “#QUEERINGWITHTINDER”.
Graphic Story: The First Move

This short and cute graphic story by Priya Dali, published by Gaysi in collaboration with Tinder, captures the playful initial stages of online dating as Maya tries to make the first move on Rae with the help of colleagues.
By Curated Content
December 1, 2021
Graphic Story: The First Move
Brushstrokes: Here’s What It Really Means to Be a Furry
Brushstrokes: Here’s What It Really Means to Be a Furry

Who is a Furry? What’s a ‘fursona’ – is it like a persona? What’s Furry fandom all about? What happens at Furry conventions? Do they dress up in animal suits? Christine Denewithe answers all these questions, and more, in this enchantingly executed comic.
By Curated Content
November 1, 2021
Brushstrokes: Here’s What It Really Means to Be a Furry
Brushstrokes: Labour and Sexuality: 12+ Ways Job Applications Discriminate Against Applicants
Brushstrokes: Labour and Sexuality: 12+ Ways Job Applications Discriminate Against Applicants

Orginal link: https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/07/jobs-discriminate-applicants/   Leave aside being able to get and retain a job, sometimes even being considered for one…
By Curated Content
October 4, 2021
Brushstrokes: Labour and Sexuality: 12+ Ways Job Applications Discriminate Against Applicants
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