Body

Mirror Mirror On The Wall: Who Is The Truest Of All?
An artistic rendering of looking in the mirror. A person with orange hair and a green sleeveless dress looks at multicolored abstract figures beyond the mirror.

Theme: Relationship With Self Through this work of art, I want to depict the relationship of our self with the mirror…

By Jasmine George
December 1, 2013
Mirror Mirror On The Wall: Who Is The Truest Of All?
Navigating love, loneliness and singlehood
A photo of the throat, clavicles and shoulders against a black background. The body is highlighted with golden brown light and there is a mole at the base of the throat.

The desire for intimacy might rob one of the intimacy that one shares with oneself and thus, being with the beloved can leave one feeling even lonelier because of the continuing struggle for validation and comfort.

By Anonymous
January 3, 2022
Navigating love, loneliness and singlehood
Negotiating Expression
An abstract painting of teal squares with splashes of orange, white, blue and yellow.

I am still coming to terms with my own femininity, as with new learnings I find myself regaining many facets of my personality which were lost while trying to ‘act like a man’ and ‘act tough’.

By Ambica Naithani
March 1, 2022
Negotiating Expression
Notes On Body and Sexuality From The Abortion Discourse
Against an orange background, the bold text reads: "Abortion Rights, Social Justice, Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom"

Rebecca Traister, in her recent article for the New Republic, titled Let’s Just Say It: Women Matter More Than Fetuses…

By Surabhi Srivastava and Kristin Francoeur
June 1, 2015
Notes On Body and Sexuality From The Abortion Discourse
Pleasure and Sex: Non-Committed Sexual Relationships in Urban India
Painting of a naked woman sharing an intimate moment with a naked man as she lies down hear his lap

Academic scholarship, popular culture and media-generated sex surveys are only beginning to understand ‘pre-marital’ sex among young people in India….

By Ketaki Chowkhani
June 1, 2015
Pleasure and Sex: Non-Committed Sexual Relationships in Urban India
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
QUEERNESS AND PRIVACY[1]: BABY I LOVE IT WHEN YOU NEVER HOLD BACK FROM ME

For so long, private has meant a place that I was forced to create, claim and carve out to hide away from the public violence. And if I’ve been allowed to further wallow in it then I don’t want to – thank you very much.

By Curated Content
April 19, 2021
QUEERNESS AND PRIVACY[1]: BABY I LOVE IT WHEN YOU NEVER HOLD BACK FROM ME
Reclining Vulnerability

Through multiple maquettes, I finally came across (since I myself did not know what the result of the form or figure would be) the Reclining Lady. She represents confident femininity and vulnerability. The feeling one has after taking a bath and sitting in the nude, drying oneself in unabashed nakedness.

By Noella Fernandes
April 19, 2021
Reclining Vulnerability
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!
Sexy Crip Desires
A close-up of vibrantly painted pebbles. One with a rainbow on it is prominently in the foreground. Another with “love” on it is behind it.

Many disabled people in India live with their parents and any expression of sexuality is suppressed as a rule within the confines of their homes. Sexual desires of persons with disabilities are seldom a priority issue for families or civil society. More is said through silence than words. Be grateful that you are alive. Isn’t that enough?

By Abhishek Anicca
February 4, 2023
Sexy Crip Desires
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
Somebody Else’s Dolly
Collage of photos of women with locomotor disabilities in seductive poses

The body is our tangible hacker of the world. It experiences the world and the world experiences it. I do…

By Shikha Aleya
June 1, 2015
Somebody Else’s Dolly
The Body In Development Speak
A woman in a black saree and white blouse faces a red wall, so that only her back is visible

It’s (already!) mid-2015: advocates, activists, development workers, policy wonks working on the ‘new development agenda’ or ‘sustainable development goals’ or…

By Rishita Nandagiri
June 1, 2015
The Body In Development Speak
The Complexities and Necessities of Queer Humour
A red heart-shaped smiley ball kept on a pile of yellow smiley balls.

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
The Complexities and Necessities of Queer Humour
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
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