borders

Interview – Kiran Bhat
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So I am realising now that for me the space of borderlessness applies to everything. It applies to the physical and topographical border as it does to the borders we create between gender and their expressions. I think I would like to argue for a truly borderless understanding of the world.

By Shikha Aleya
March 17, 2023
Interview – Kiran Bhat
Editorial – Movement and Sexuality
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This issue of In Plainspeak while inviting us to embrace the joys and pleasure in movement, also questions the ways in which movements are facilitated or obstructed, visibilised or invisibilised, and the spaces that we must envision to find freedom in/to movement.

By TARSHI
May 19, 2022
Editorial – Movement and Sexuality
Brushstrokes: The Story of Amanirenas, the Fierce Kandake

This month, we’re excited about featuring the story of Amanirenas, one of the most famous Kushite Kandakes, queens of the ancient African kingdom of Kush (what is today the country of Sudan) and her valiant fight against the armies of Rome to defend the boundaries of her people’s land.

By Curated Content
April 3, 2017
Brushstrokes: The Story of Amanirenas, the Fierce Kandake
A Review Essay: The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
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The Sexuality of Migration speaks only to gay men from Mexico. It is reticent on the issues of other non-normative sexualities such…

By Curated Content
November 15, 2014
A Review Essay: The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men