Voices
The Complex Tapestry of Fashion: Identity, Expression, and Feminism in a Women’s College
I remember my face lighting up when a relative (sarcastically) complimented me for having ‘matured’, and having outgrown the colour…
By Devanshi Panda
How Not To Do Body Positivity Fashion
There is an aesthetic template for the ‘beautiful’ urban Indian woman. She dresses in ‘traditional’ attire, has the right kind…
By Trijita
September 20, 2023
Androgyny is a Quality of the Mind
Believe it or not, I knew I was queer since I was three years old. One of my earliest memories…
By Debashree
September 20, 2023
My Sexuality is My DIY Project
Raised within a binary mindset, where everything is supposed to exist in independent blocks rather than a continuum, nothing about…
By Surbhi Bhalla
August 25, 2023
Girls, Shame, and Favourite Vegetables
I am sitting in my class, wondering when the bell will ring. I am moving my legs. My eyes are…
By Gayathri M R
August 25, 2023
Guilty Learnings: Breaking the Cycle with Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Like any other Indian school, our school, too, didn’t provide any kind of sexuality education to us. They hoped our…
By Sanchia Alleen Aranha
The Taste of Purple
Stop everything! I have a condition that you must follow before you read any further, before you consume what I’ve…
By Hanish Srinivasan
July 17, 2023
‘किमाम वाली रात के नाम’ – भारतीय इतिहास में पान की शृंगारिक भूमिका
“तेरी बातों में किमाम की ख़ुश्बू है…”-फ़िल्म ‘बंटी और बबली’ (2005) में ‘कजरा रे’ गाने के बोल फ़िल्म ‘लगे रहो,…
By Annika Amber
An ode to kimam wali raat: The erotic adventures of paan in Indian history
“Teri baaton mein kiman ki khusboo hai”(Your words carry the fragrance of kimam.) – From the song ‘Kajra re’ in…
By Annika Amber
Tell me, who can eat?
The growing encroachment of the Internet and its subsets into our lives has created a world where we reach out…
By Ankita Kundu
July 5, 2023
A Handful of Pills for this Body
Around the age of 22, I made up my mind to make my body smaller. I worked out, imposed food…
By Trijita
June 16, 2023
A tempestuous affair
The simple truth is that my body and I are having an affair. We each obsess about the other, ask questions and desire each other so much, that it often borders on the shameless. My body is more in love with me, I suspect, than the other way around.
By Pramada Menon
June 1, 2023
Bodies Seen Through a Kinky Lens
Our bodies become the form and medium through which we present ourselves to the outside world, engage with it, interact with it, perceive it and are perceived by it.
By iwonderwhy
June 1, 2023
The Complexities and Necessities of Queer Humour
There’s a difference between ‘laughing with’ and ‘laughing at’. The above instance was obviously of the latter kind. Humour has a complex but integral relationship with queer genders and sexualities, and it has been evolving over time.
By Rupal Rupali
May 17, 2023
That’s What She Said
You don’t even realise what you’ve said until someone in the group, quick as lightning, hits you with the rejoinder, “That’s what she said!” As you’re trying to make sense of what just happened, the group dissolves into giggles.
By Tanvi Khemani
May 17, 2023