Body

Clicking Nudes: Documenting The Journey Of Self-Love For My Body
a series of nude paintings of women

As shocking as his request for a nude was, what confused me even more was why would he want nudes from me, a woman who hated her body? Would he appreciate these saggy breasts with their stretch marks? My ever growing thighs and my belly which has body hair on it, wouldn’t he think I’m ugly?

By Curated Content
February 17, 2020
Clicking Nudes: Documenting The Journey Of Self-Love For My Body
For I Am A Woman
silhouette of a woman

For I was a woman / Taught to chain herself gracefully / In an invisible cage.

By Khushi Pahuja
February 3, 2020
For I Am A Woman
Brushstrokes: Body
image from the photoseries 'Body' by Veer Mishra

“Every type of body is beautiful, and more importantly every type of body is different,” says artist Veer Mishra while describing Body, his series of illustrations. This ‘difference’ is the essence of what he tries to portray through his art.

By Curated Content
May 1, 2019
Brushstrokes: Body
Brushstrokes: #100DaysofLaundry
Illustration of a naked woman in a bathtub, her menstrual blood visible in the water she's taking a bath in

But what about the “moments we don’t Instagram”? What about the uglier parts of our physical lived realities? What about the parts of our body, our identities, our sexuality we don’t perform on social media, but are still an intrinsic part of who we are?

By Curated Content
September 4, 2018
Brushstrokes: #100DaysofLaundry
A Story of the Body: Understanding Memories and Sexuality
A blue and a red silhouette of the heads of two figures leaning against each other.

“I was not a wanted child. Of course I am a girl, and that explains it. It’s like no one really cares if I exist. My brothers are useless, but they are everything to them(her parents). It’s not like he (her lover) needs me either; I still take food for him everyday.”

By Rashi Kapoor
April 16, 2018
A Story of the Body: Understanding Memories and Sexuality
Poem of desire and (dis)ability
A brightly coloured abstract painting consisting of painbrush lines going in all directions.

they say my body is broken they look at me with pity but little do they know when i scream…

By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Poem of desire and (dis)ability
“India Has Been a Sexual Wasteland for Two Centuries”: An Interview with Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar

Kakar talks about the divide between Ayurveda and modern medicine, Freudian psychoanalysis and Indian metaphysics, and the fault lines between colonialism, religion and sexuality.

By Curated Content
April 18, 2017
“India Has Been a Sexual Wasteland for Two Centuries”: An Interview with Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar
How To Make Me Come
Pencil drawing of a naked woman. Her legs are spread apart, and she is having an orgasm. Screen reader support enabled. Pencil drawing of a naked woman. Her legs are spread apart, and she is having an orgasm.

This piece won’t write itself as an opinion piece or a review of experiences that happened or were bound to…

By Greeshma Gireesh
February 1, 2016
How To Make Me Come
Book Review: Come As You Are
Book cover with white background. Line drawing of a woman from waist to thighs, naked. On top is written the author's name in black "Emily Nayoski". Below it in red in cursive is written, "COME as you are".

You should venture to read Emily Nagoski’s book, Come As You Are in public. Not because you want to make…

By Shweta Krishnan
November 15, 2015
Book Review: Come As You Are
The Editorial: Body and Sexuality
Abstract drawng of a distorted face painted in blue and yellow

In one sense, the body is what I immediately am. In another sense, I am separated from it by the…

By TARSHI
June 17, 2015
The Editorial: Body and Sexuality
Run for your body, Run No Way!
Illustration of a naked woman with paint smeared across her body throwing her arms up in the air in joy and abandon

It’s sad that we think we own our bodies: the bodies we love, the bodies we hate, the bodies we…

By Abdullah Erikat
June 17, 2015
Run for your body, Run No Way!
I want to 377 you so bad (and Other Poems)
Abstract painting of a distorted face outlined with bold lines

i want to 377 you so bad till even the sheets hurt i want to ache your knees singe your…

By Akhil Katyal
June 17, 2015
I want to 377 you so bad (and Other Poems)
Bodies Intercepted: Inside Medical Wards
A amn lying in a hospital bed, while a nurse stands near him and says 'I don't need informed consent to give you a sponge bath.'

The medical ward is often continuous with the world around it. One would like to think of it as an…

By Shweta Krishnan
June 17, 2015
Bodies Intercepted: Inside Medical Wards
Blood On Our Skirts
Picture of white fabric stained with red paint

[slideshow_deploy id=’6158′] I remember the first time I learnt of menstruation as a ten year old. One of our friends…

By Shambhawi Vikram
June 17, 2015
Blood On Our Skirts
Silencing love: Negotiating Sexuality In School Life
एक लड़की के चेहरे की तस्वीर है। लड़की का रंग गेंहुआ है, नाक में नथनी पहनी है, बिंदी लगायी है, आँखों में काजल, कानो में झुमके और बाल थोड़े बिखरे हुए है और कुछ चेहरे पर आ रहे है |

My experience of school, as I remember it, was quite conflicted. As a child I lacked the vocabulary to describe…

By Meghna Bohidar
June 1, 2015
Silencing love: Negotiating Sexuality In School Life
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