Dating Apps

Loitering towards desire
Lines of code on a computer screen

We had gathered to [discuss] digital self-determination for people with disabilities… focusing on its core component: the self. How can I be myself in digital spaces? What gives me more of a sense of self in these spaces? How can design, technology and policy contribute to helping me determine myself in digital spaces?

By Bishakha Datta
February 16, 2023
Loitering towards desire
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
A wall completely covered with multicoloured, abstract graffiti

A space can make us feel constricted or liberated, and sometimes even both at the same and at varying times. The combination of spaces that we may be occupying in the moment, as well as those we have in the past, predisposes us to act, feel and experience our sexuality in different ways.

By TARSHI
April 18, 2022
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
‘A Promise to Stand By’: The quiet feminism of Nathicharami
Nathicharami

Nathicharami takes sexuality and sexual desire away from upper-class, Gucci-clad women and makes its viewers acknowledge its existence in the lives of women (middle-class wives and widows, in the case of this film) who are invisibilised, both in the society they live in and as subjects of popular content.

By Srishti Gupta
March 1, 2022
‘A Promise to Stand By’: The quiet feminism of Nathicharami
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times
A section of the poster for the Netflix Original Documentary series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On. Against a black background, there is an illustration of the waist of a human body, seemingly female, in solid pale pink. On the body, text in capitalised letters and black font reads, “ A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES”. In the next line, the text says, “HOT GIRLS WANTED: TURNED ON”. Below the title of the series is the logo for the Sundance Film Festival and the text reads, “OFFICIAL SELECTION SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2017”.

The film Hot Girls Wanted followed the journey of five young women aged 18-25 years as they joined the pornography industry and also looked more broadly at at women in this age group and their motivation to join.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
January 3, 2022
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times
Brushstrokes: Digital security guide: How to protect yourself on dating apps
An illustration of a ruled sheet. The lines are orange in colour. In the middle is a smartphone with a woman's face and torso on the display. She has curly brown hair and is wearing a blue turtleneck. Underneath is written, Lu, 28, and the symbols of Swipe Yes or No and two other buttons as on a dating app interface. On either side of the smartphone are flowers with stems and leaves. The flowers are red, and two in each bouquet. Above, in big letters, outlined in black and coloured in bright green: How to Date Online Safely. And underneath the smartphone illustration, in black, "Online dating can be fun. But there are some risks. Malicious actors can use your profile to blackmail, hurt, or harass you. This guide contains helpful tips and resources to protect you'

Online dating can be great fun but it comes with some risks. This quirky and in-depth Digital Security Guide by Access Now on How to Date Online Safely tells us how we can engage with fellow dating-app users while making sure we are safe from harm.

By Curated Content
May 15, 2021
Brushstrokes: Digital security guide: How to protect yourself on dating apps
Tinderization of Feeling
Image of two dolls swaying their legs and arms. The doll on the left has long hair and is wearing a red coloured head scarf on its head and a white sweater and black pants. The doll also has makeup on its face. The doll on the rights has short hair and is wearing a white sweater with grey pants. The doll has a black woolen scarf around its neck

To be without intricacies is to be without emotional boundaries, to disregard whoever whenever. Besties save you from your shit. They are your heart, and they transcend any efficiency that the Tinderization Bestie Robot attempts to offer you in its binary fantasy.

By Curated Content
April 19, 2021
Tinderization of Feeling
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times

Because the Internet is an integral part of our daily lives, it is important that young people are given the right information so that they can explore the world around them, access information without violating legislations, know their rights in the virtual and physical world and have enjoyable and consensual relationships with whoever they choose.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
August 3, 2020
Hot Girls Wanted – Keeping up with the times
Young People and Sexuality – The perspective of two queer allies
An image of purple fibre cables

As we sat down brainstorming about what course we were going to take next for As You Are (AYA –…

By Aditi and Sunali
July 1, 2020
Young People and Sexuality – The perspective of two queer allies
Editorial: Dating and Sexuality

Searching for and then finding and connecting with others, dating, and then possibly, romancing them, are activities and experiences that…

By TARSHI
May 15, 2020
Editorial: Dating and Sexuality