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STAY SINGLE. STAY SAFE.
Image of mannequins with orange and pink ductapes. On one of the mannequins ‘Your body belongs to you’ is written

The largest contingent of voiceless, lonely women with limited agency in the subcontinent must be its married women. If they’re fortunate enough to be born and reach adulthood, a woman’s parents and society make sure she becomes an adult brainwashed into self-alienation and self-loathing.

By Nighat Gandhi
April 5, 2021
STAY SINGLE. STAY SAFE.
Brushstrokes: Decriminalisation of Abortion in India
A slide of the graphic recording of the webinar series by CREA and CommonHealth. On a white background are coloured illustrations to give the effect of spiral writing pads and notes. A hand is visible till the forearm holding a pen and writing ‘The Implications of MTP Amendment on Access Beyond COVID-19’. The pointers are typographically presented.

The graphic representations of a three-part webinar series organised by Common Health and CREA address these questions and attempt to build an understanding of the decriminalisation of abortion and how it could ensure access to safe, affordable, timely and rights-based services.

By Curated Content
September 1, 2020
Brushstrokes: Decriminalisation of Abortion in India
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World

The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt.

By Neel
August 14, 2020
Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World
I May Have Called You Baby But It Doesn’t Mean I Want One!

Some nights I worry that if birth control for men is indeed released, clinical trials of which were suspended in 2016 as its side effects, incidentally the same as what women have been dealing with for ages, were just not worth it, it would be named Fuckboi.

By Anjali
August 14, 2020
I May Have Called You Baby But It Doesn’t Mean I Want One!
For the love of technology! Sex robots and virtual reality
A white woman about to kiss a seemingly ‘male’ robot.

People we refer to as “digisexuals” are turning to advanced technologies, such as robots, virtual reality (VR) environments and feedback devices known as teledildonics, to take the place of human partners.

By Curated Content
August 14, 2020
For the love of technology! Sex robots and virtual reality
I DELETE MYSELF: ANONYMITY AND SEXUALITY ONLINE
On a black background, in capital letters, the words “I DELETE MYSELF”. The background has lines from the poem Delete by The Weird Queer Kid.

Cyberspace has given the queer woman a chance to problematize the existing gender and sexual identities which, like any identity, is not static. It allows her to create and occupy spaces which will give her freedom and power in a way that the misogynistic physical world cannot provide.

By Curated Content
August 14, 2020
I DELETE MYSELF: ANONYMITY AND SEXUALITY ONLINE
The Future Is TransFeminist: from imagination to action
An illustration of a woman’s face and torso, superimposed with markers of digital engagement. Behind her, two octopus arms and from under the torso, palms and leaves flowering.

Facebook. Google. Apple. Microsoft. Amazon. As the white male-dominated Big Five in Silicon Valley monopolise most platforms that guide online interactions almost everywhere outside China, any aspiration towards a feminist revolution has become capitalised.

By Curated Content
August 14, 2020
The Future Is TransFeminist: from imagination to action
The Mask of Age
An image of a mobile phone's screen with the Facebook app open. The letters 'faceb' are visible in white on a blue background.

As advocates of safe, inclusive and sexuality-affirming spaces, we can explore different ways to ensure that the people we are interacting with on dating platforms are legal adults and are not merely wearing a mask of adulthood.

By Andy Stephen Silveira
August 3, 2020
The Mask of Age