Voices
Climate Change – Who gets hit the hardest?
Climate change is having effects on health and, more specifically, sexual and reproductive health needs and services for women and marginalised populations.
By Renuka Motihar
September 18, 2025
Challenging Gender Norms, Strengthening Resilience in Crisis
What other stories are waiting to be told? How can we encourage more families to stand together, share chores, and make safe spaces where everyone feels respected and valued?
By Urasmita Ghosh
September 18, 2025
To Dream the Impossible Dream
The Dream Grants, then, became our search for that sweet spot where dreaming and waking meet, and passion becomes the project.
By Anjali Lal, Manak Matiyani, Pramada Menon, Sumedha Sharma
September 18, 2025
The Right to Desire in a Dying Climate
To talk about climate justice, then, is to talk about who gets to feel safe, who gets to choose, who gets to want.
By Abhigya Singh
August 19, 2025
When the Waters Rise, We Stay Rooted
The skills, networks, and resilience we’ve built over years aren’t just stories from the margins; they’re tools the whole system can learn from.
By Satbhan Singh
August 19, 2025
Queer Withholding and Caste Attachments
You can make a belonging out of ephemeral objects, desires, and memories. Associations and relations that are not dependent on possession.
By Rohit Rajak
August 19, 2025
The Machines Are Not All Right: Rethinking (Artificial) Intelligence
Human beings are not brains in jars, but are fundamentally shaped by their perception of and interaction with the worlds around them, through their physical bodies and their sensory encounters.
By Padmini Ray Murray
La esquina de mi corazón
To be politically queer in a new language is an intoxication of all senses, revelation, outrageous freedom.
By Cat D
July 16, 2025
Languages of Love (and Sex)
I soon realised how central language is to our understanding of the world, and how language constitutes the limits and possibilities of our experiences and identities.
By Siddharth Narrain
July 16, 2025
In Search of Ochin Pakhi
The aim of this piece is to bring to light the inherent queerness marking Baul folk music in Bengali, an oral undocumented spiritual expression that transcends heterosexual impositions and classism.
By Taniya Basu
June 17, 2025
Dirty Words, Sacred Nation: On Sexuality, Language, and Indian Morality
What gets silenced today isn’t just what’s obscene – it’s what’s inconvenient. What doesn’t sell. What asks us to take sex seriously or differently.
By Annika Amber
The Language of the Eyes – Speaking Through Signs
Because we also understand and acknowledge the power of a single step forward, we decided to deep dive into working with sign languages for people who are deaf or hard of hearing and including them in the safe abortion rights dialogues.
By Nandini Mazumder, Ayesha Bashir and Suchitra Dalvie
June 17, 2025
If Mountains Can Move …
Language itself is being plugged as a resource, to be shared with those who share similar politics, or if not, at least to move them along in that direction. And people who speak, think, love and live differently are targeted as “the other”.
By Nandini Rao
June 17, 2025
Of Words and Worlds
Words weren’t always needed – we were content in each other’s quiet company, letting stillness speak. It took me years to realise that their home was my first classroom, and love was the language we spoke.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
June 17, 2025
भाषा की ताकत – LGBTQIA+ पहचान और समावेशिता की दिशा में क़दम
भाषा सिर्फ अभिव्यक्ति का माध्यम नहीं है, यह पहचान, संबंध और संघर्ष का भी ज़रिया है। भाषा सामाजिक संरचना, पहचान और सत्ता-संबंधों को दर्शाने का भी औज़ार है।
By Imran Khan