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Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance
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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
August 20, 2024
Queer Bodies in the Kitchen: Narratives of Reclamation and Resistance
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India
Eight people out of the frame with their hands outstretched in a circle holding phones showing a single jigsaw puzzle piece in different colours on each phone. This is against a vibrant coloured backgroud with a wave-like diffused rainbow going from one side to the other.
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
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India
Queer Archiving: Memory, Law and Sexuality
Kokila Protests
Queer Archiving: Memory, Law and Sexuality

Could we imagine QAMRA as an archive that is alive, and interventionist, that is enabling the creation of a new space for dialogue while assiduously documenting the lives, work and interventions of existing and older histories?
By T. Jayashree and Siddharth Narrain
April 2, 2018
Queer Archiving: Memory, Law and Sexuality
Queer and Quarantine
An artwork by V that shows a brown shirtless individual surrounded by vibrant, blooming flowers in different shades.
Queer and Quarantine

How did isolation work for those of us who are already quarantined in perpetuity by the cis-heteronormative gaze?
By Raju Behara
June 18, 2024
Queer and Quarantine
Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces
A photo of heterosexual couple sitting cross-legged on a rampart beside the sea. The man is wearing a blue shirt and there are shopping bags beside him. Beside him, only the mid-length hair of the woman can be seen. In the horizon is the city skyline of Mumbai with skyscrapers and other buildings at golden hour.
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
Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces
Providing sexual services to clients with disability
A woman dressed in a black and red dress and holding up a big red umbrella is looking behind. She has long blonde hair and a smile on her face.
Providing sexual services to clients with disability

I’ve been a sex worker for over 20 years. I’m a migrant sex worker based in Sydney, Australia but have…
By Rachel Wotton
August 1, 2014
Providing sexual services to clients with disability
PROVIDING SEXUAL SERVICES TO CLIENTS WITH DISABILITY
A woman dressed in a black and red dress and holding up a big red umbrella is looking behind. She has long blonde hair and a smile on her face.
PROVIDING SEXUAL SERVICES TO CLIENTS WITH DISABILITY

I’ve been a sex worker for over 20 years. I’m a migrant sex worker based in Sydney, Australia but have…
By Rachel Wotton
December 1, 2014
PROVIDING SEXUAL SERVICES TO CLIENTS WITH DISABILITY
Pronouns and Rainbow Circles
Pronouns and Rainbow Circles
Pronouns and Rainbow Circles

During an orientation session of Queer Hifazat, a programme for queer youth run by my organisation Red Dot Foundation, Deepak*…
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
March 1, 2022
Pronouns and Rainbow Circles
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World

The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt.
By Neel
August 14, 2020
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World
Wall-art of a face till the bridge of the nose. The face is coloured in peach, grey, and shades of blue. The eyes, green, are lined in black and have spots of yellow, brown, and blue colour around them. Under the left eye, there are yellow dots. The hair is streaked with purple and blue.
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World

The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt. While virtual sex offers a window to revisit the sensual, it is also not immune to limitations and insecurities.
By Neel
June 15, 2021
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World
Prescriptions of Proper
Prescriptions of Proper

In a world of prescriptions of performance and perfection, there isn’t truly that much space built in to risk non-performance, not being perfect, or to risk not fitting the prescription.
By Shikha Aleya
September 4, 2018
Prescriptions of Proper
Polyamory: A Desire for a New Self
Polyamory: A Desire for a New Self

If not him, there is his brother – Mir, are there any restrictions in love? Mir Taqi Mir, 18th century…
By Aishwarya Singh
May 1, 2020
Polyamory: A Desire for a New Self
Poems by Nhylar
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Poems by Nhylar

1. A Certain Type of Life  since the age of 16 I idealised a certain type of life involving certain…
By Nhylar
July 1, 2020
Poems by Nhylar
Poems
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Poems

Girl, when you blow your boy, or boy, when you go down on her, or when both of you use…
By Akhil Katyal
October 1, 2014
Poems
Poem: Age 7
Black and white picture of a child covering their face
Poem: Age 7

tender lips that had forgotten, momentarily, the taste of mother’s milk and couldn’t tell the silence of the womb from…
By Mukesh
February 1, 2014
Poem: Age 7
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