Voices
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India
What does belonging, then, look like in urban India for people from different social, economic and political backgrounds?
By Vanshika Gupta and Niv
November 19, 2024
Trans Act 2019: The continued misunderstandings about transgender as a gender category
The data continues to misrepresent the realities of transgender persons, reiterating the existing confusion about transgender individuals.
By Brindaalakshmi K
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
Everyone talks about how nobody can put a price on how much homemakers do for us, but nobody talks about the kind of behaviour they are subjected to almost every day.
By Anuja Tripathy
November 19, 2024
कैसा होगा अगर हम यौनिकता को अपनाते हुए बड़े हों?
अपनी परिभाषा, अर्थ और लांछन के आस-पास की अस्पष्टता के कारण यौनिकता एक अछूता, अनदेखा, और मनाही का क्षेत्र बना हुआ है।
By Sreejani
November 19, 2024
जिम की जेंडर आधारित मांसपेशियां
मैं उन विभिन्न जिमों के बाथरूम में बिताए अपने अनुभवों को याद कर सकता हूँ। पुरुषों का बाथरूम एक अद्भुत जगह होता है यह देखने के लिए कि कैसे यौनिकता अपने अलग-अलग पहलुओं में ज़ाहिर होती है।
By Shiva Chauhan
November 19, 2024
आनंदमय अज्ञानता से असमानता की समझ
अपने बच्चों को बाहरी दुनिया की बुराइयों से बचाने की अपने यक़ीन के कारण भारतीय परिवार इस सच्चाई को नज़रअंदाज़ कर देते हैं कि बच्चों को भी दुनिया को समझने के लिए तैयारी की ज़रुरत होती है।
By Aditi Mishra
November 19, 2024
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
Who gets to imagine this utopian sociality, or future, of the queer movement?
By Susmit Panzade
October 17, 2024
रोयेंदार इल्लियां और मैं
मुझे आज भी वो दिन याद है जब मेरे पिता ने मुझे हस्तमैथुन करते हुए देखा लिया था।
By Anupom Kumar Hazarika
October 17, 2024
काम ही काम हर जगह, पर दिखाने के लिए एक बूँद भी नहीं
ज जब मैं अपनी माँ और चेची के अनुभवों के बारे में एक इंटरसेक्शनल यानी अंतर्विभागीय नारीवादी नज़रिए से लिख रही हूँ, तो मैं यह सोचती रह जाती हूँ कि उनके शारीरिक और भावनात्मक श्रम का भुगतान कौन करेगा।
By Sharada Vinod
October 17, 2024
The Body at Work
It is evident that the workplace is not just a site for economic production but also a space where bodies are shaped, controlled, and violated.
By Shivani Rajan
September 18, 2024
Ensuring the Safety and Wellbeing of Frontline Workers: A Call to Action for On-Ground Organisations
Frontline workers, often recruited from the communities organisations work with, face heightened risks to their health, safety, and wellbeing as their work extends beyond the walls of an office.
By Shilpa Nair
The Role of Digital Platforms as Workplaces: Sexual Expression and Harassment in the Virtual Realm
Moving from the broader implications of the digital workspace it is essential to discuss specifically how these platforms influence the exploration of sexual identity.
By Yash Singh Sisodiya
What it Means to Read Now: Notes from a Librarian
What are the acts of reading that we allow young people, that we allow each other? And what does that say about the worlds we want and need?
By Zoya Chadha
September 18, 2024
Job Description: Break into the Boys’ Club
I was recently speaking to a senior PSU (Public Sector Undertaking) official who has worked in the same office for…
By Gitanjali
August 20, 2024
Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance
“A woman’s place is in the kitchen.” Most of us born in female-designated bodies, in a country like India, have…
By Silpi Bhaumik