Disability
Editorial: Law and Sexuality
In our mid-month issue, Stuti Tripathi considers whether raising the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21years is indeed a one-stop solution to check early marriages. She brings to our attention the many factors, such as family pressure, inaccessible educational and financial resources, traditionally defined roles of women, and gender-based marginalisation that together lead to early marriages and argues that young people need rights not protection.
By TARSHI
September 15, 2020
Editorial: Diversity and Sexuality
In our mid-month issue, we have the second part of the Shikha Aleya’s interview with six different people talking about aspects of sexuality and diversity from their own particular space of personal knowledge, as well as work, advocacy, art and activism across diverse fields.
By TARSHI
May 15, 2019
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 – Movement and Sexuality
This issue of In Plainspeak while inviting us to embrace the joys and pleasure in movement, also questions the ways in which movements are facilitated or obstructed, visibilised or invisibilised, and the spaces that we must envision to find freedom in/to movement.
By TARSHI
May 19, 2022
Editorial – Mental Health and Sexuality
Mental health, much like physical health, is a state of wellbeing and not just the absence of disease or infirmity….
By TARSHI
September 19, 2022
Editorial – Accessibility and Sexuality
If you were the CEO of a company and your office were on the 40th floor of a building in…
By TARSHI
February 16, 2023
Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish: A platonic togetherness
The movie was criticised for its stereotypical portrayal of Debu as a gay man. But, the beauty is that it also highlights the reversal of gender roles. The smiles, and the laughter sounding throughout the house, create a cheery note in the movie.
By Dr Swarupa N Kshirsagar
November 2, 2020
Dissociation
Who is this that works my hand?
Who is this that moves my pen?
Touch is a beetle creeping on this foreign thing
That wears my body like an evening.
By Jhelum Mukherjee
February 2, 2023
Disability Rights: Can We Please Talk About Sexuality!
The Union Budget, 2014 presented by the newly elected government a few weeks ago includes various provisions for disabled persons…
By Rupsa Mallik
August 1, 2014
Disability and Sexuality Resources
Posted by incurable hippie: I have been doing some research on sex and disability, and thought I would share some of…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2014
Desexualising Disability
Two of my most favourite disability-related public awareness projects in recent years have been the American Able project and Undressing…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2014
BRIDGING THE GAP: IDEAS FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION PROGRAMME
A 22-year-old autistic young man with low intellectual functioning I work with, recently got into trouble with the police because…
By Ankita Khanna
Autonomy, agency, choice: Yes these are for us
The linkages between access, health, violence, the law, workplaces, gender and sexuality are really high and that’s why we all today—whether we are working on street accessibility, education, disability and employment—need to bring and build our collective understanding around gender and sexuality, keeping it at the core of our work with people, youth, and women with disabilities.
By Nidhi Goyal and Srinidhi Raghavan
February 16, 2023