Voices
Gender and Sesame Street
My mother was not a role model for me when I was growing up – not in the traditional sense…
By Sashwati Banerjee
October 1, 2014
Superman and Blackman: Two Queer Indulgences
#1 My computer desktop features one of the most recognizable icons of 21st century (Western) popular culture: Superman, in his…
By Oishik Sircar
October 1, 2014
The Invisible Mother: The ‘Stigma’ of Surrogacy
Mobility is undertaken for varied reasons across contemporary global spaces. One emerging reason for travel and mobility is reproduction. ‘Reproductive…
By Sama
November 1, 2014
Intersections between Mental Health and Human Rights: The case of transwomen and transmen in Malaysia
Last week, I was at The Third International Conference on Human Rights and Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia organised…
By Vizla Kumaresan
Migration, Gender and Identity in the New Political Economy
Migration is synonymous with change. Migration of an individual from one place to another involves fundamental changes in attributes that…
By Mansi Wadhwa
November 1, 2014
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
“The more you confine me, the more I will spill over”
The collection Wild Girls, Wicked Words is an anthology of poetry translated from Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom. The collection contains…
By Vasugi Kailasam
January 1, 2015
Songs of the Caravan…Journey of the Spirit : India’s First Audio Album Sung by Transgender Women
Music is a universal language. It has no gender. It belongs to everyone. For certain communities’ music has been a…
By Anubhav Gupta
CSE and Online Hot Bath Scenes
No matter how many optional ways I’ve considered for starting this piece, I keep returning to ‘hot’ and ‘masala’. I’ve…
By Shikha Aleya
February 1, 2015
Desire and Sexuality Education: Teaching about Romance, Love, Infatuation and Other Such Attractions
Sexuality Education is not only about Sexual and Reproductive Health, but ideally also aims to address the question of adolescent…
By Ketaki Chowkhani
Male Gaze? What About Some Disco Balls?
I recently attended a talk titled ‘Streeshakti’ at the Jaipur Literature Festival. One of the speakers Lata Sharma, a Rajasthani…
March 1, 2015
“Don’t let your foot slip!” : Messages On ‘Appropriate’ Femininity By School Teachers In Mumbai
“In Hindi, though there is a word for rape (balaatkaar), it is rarely used by women. Instead they say izzat…
By Juhi Sidharth