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Supreme Court Has Done Well to Legally Reaffirm Women’s Right to Choose Sexual Partners. So What?

·March 18, 2019
·Curated Content

Whether it is family, society, gangs of thugs, or political parties, the threats to women’s freedom to choose in India are many and varied. To the above list, one may add the police and the judiciary as well.

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Why Do People Watch Porn? Five Women Explain Their Reasons

·March 18, 2019
·Curated Content

India is one of the largest consumers of porn in the world, so much so that Pornhub created a mirror site following Indian government’s ban. Definitely, not all viewers of porn end up committing sexual crimes.

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Public Interview: Choice and Sexuality – II

·March 18, 2019
·Shikha Aleya

This is Part Two of a ‘public interview’ that TARSHI conducted last month, where our attempt was to collate people's thoughts, notions, and experiences surrounding the choices they make, and the choices that are accessible to them, with regards to their sexuality.

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Reproductive Technologies: Families of Choice?

·March 5, 2019
·Anindita Sengupta

While we moved one step forward towards sexual rights by striking down Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and decriminalising homosexuality, we still have a long way to go in changing and challenging the popular psyche and the political and legal narratives around homosexuality and queer families.

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Public Interview: Choice and Sexuality – I

·March 5, 2019
·Shikha Aleya

For this March issue, we decided to interview many people, not just one, and over 350 people responded! Here are the results of a ‘public interview’ that took the form of a survey, and two polls with two questions each, on Facebook and Instagram.

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Sexuality, Choice and ‘Crazy Rich Asians’

·March 5, 2019
·Vizla Kumaresan

Kwan’s 'Crazy Rich Asians' does not just highlight the lifestyle of the segment of Singaporean society that is unimaginable and unattainable to most people, it amplifies that heterosexuality is often not a choice.

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Video Page: Interior Cafe Night

·March 5, 2019
·Curated Content

Sometimes, life may surprise us with a second chance, a second turn at making the right choice, and sometimes it may not.

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(In)Convenient Choices and Queer Affective Lives: The Story of My Mother and Me

·March 5, 2019
·Sohini Chatterjee

My mother and I have both made certain choices, sometimes inconvenient for me, sometimes difficult for her, but those choices have revealed to me the strength of our relationship and alternative possibilities that she and I can imagine together.

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