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A painting on a wall warning visitors about video surveillance

On “Knowing too Much”: Intimacy, Visibility, and Peer Surveillance in Rural Digital Life

In such a setting, intimacy becomes the surveillance infrastructure.

By Debjani Chakraborty

February 17, 2026

On “Knowing too Much”: Intimacy, Visibility, and Peer Surveillance in Rural Digital Life

An illustration of a desktop with a laptop, and a video call on the phone - body doubling

Never Absolutely

Digital intimacy is not always obvious or visible, but a lingering trace.

By Rajlakshmi B

March 17, 2026

Never Absolutely

an illustration of a hand holding a phone with text exchanges of love

Editorial – Digital Intimacies and Sexuality

We humans are sometimes able to squeeze kindness out of a stone. And love out of nowhere.

By TARSHI

March 17, 2026

Editorial – Digital Intimacies and Sexuality

light streams and fog in a forest clearing

Dasain of Lovers

Couple haru ko dasain is here –
the festival of lovers.

By Lungmying Lepcha

February 17, 2026

Dasain of Lovers

Themes

In Plainspeak publishes one issue every month, with a single theme running across two months. Our aim is to expand safe, inclusive self-affirming spaces.

CURRENT ISSUE:

April-May 2026: The Self and Sexuality

The Self that walks around with us, that says, “This is me”, what has it got to do with sexuality? Born of body, mind, heart, spirit, and experience, the Self is what we may think of as the beingness and the whatness of a person. It occupies a context, interacts with others, and is embedded in systems and structures of culture, society, economy, politics, etc. This Self, while it encompasses caste, class, ethnic, gender, sexual and other identities, is more than all of them. What does the Self bring to sexuality and what does sexuality bring to the Self? How does the Self engage with the body, personal values, other selves, external systems and structures, and so on, in order to experience sexuality as affirming?

अप्रैल-मई २०२६: स्वयं (निजी व्यक्तित्व) और यौनिकता

जो स्वयं / निजी व्यक्तित्व (सेल्फ़) हमारे साथ रहता है, जो कहता है, “यह मैं हूँ”, उसका यौनिकता से क्या लेना-देना है? शरीर, मन, हृदय, आत्मा और अनुभव से जन्मा, सेल्फ़ वह है जिसे हम – किसी के अस्तित्व और जैसे वे है – के रूप में सोच सकते हैं। यह एक संदर्भ रखता है, दूसरों के साथ बातचीत करता है, और संस्कृति, समाज, अर्थव्यवस्था, राजनीति आदि की प्रणालियों और संरचनाओं में अंतर्निहित है। इस सेल्फ़ में, जहाँ जाति, वर्ग, जातीय, जेंडर, यौनिक और अन्य पहचानें शामिल हैं, यह इस सब से कहीं अधिक है। सेल्फ़ यौनिकता में क्या लाता है और यौनिकता सेल्फ़ में क्या लाती है? यौनिकता को पुष्टि के रूप में अनुभव करने के लिए सेल्फ शरीर, व्यक्तिगत मूल्यों, अन्य स्वयं, बाहरी प्रणालियों और संरचनाओं, आदि के साथ कैसे जुड़ता है?

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