desirability

Refusing the weight in waiting
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As a girl, I was made to believe that pleasure was something that existed outside my body, something that I had to seek out, something that was necessarily a product of a partnered experience. I don’t think I was even allowed to want pleasure, especially in its sexual forms.

By Aathira Gopi
March 15, 2022
Refusing the weight in waiting
 Navigating love, loneliness and singlehood
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I believe that queer friendships and intimacies are sheer resistance, which not only swallow the despair and pain that might be perpetrated on gender-nonconforming people by their families, but also recognise all the lies about love that have been sold to us.

By Anonymous
February 1, 2021
 Navigating love, loneliness and singlehood
Lessons for Contemporary Times from The Liberation of Sita
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In this narrative, Sita finds solace in these women and understands a different perspective about beauty, self-worth, authority, self-reliance, and toward the end, finds liberation from society and marriage which were the root cause of her sorrow.

By Tulika
February 1, 2021
Lessons for Contemporary Times from The Liberation of Sita
Bridgerton: Pairing-up Pressures
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By and large, society expects a woman to marry. Often people in one’s circle judge a woman if she doesn’t marry, inquiring about what could be wrong but most never assuming that it could be out of choice

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
February 1, 2021
Bridgerton: Pairing-up Pressures
How I Learned That I Deserve to Love Myself
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Have you ever heard the old adage, “You have to love yourself before anybody else can love you”? Well, I grew up interpreting this in the absolutely most terrible way possible.

By Guest Writer
February 18, 2017
How I Learned That I Deserve to Love Myself