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As we see through this issue of In Plainspeak, stories have in them the power of exposing brutal truths about society and therefore also bring with them the possibility of reform, change, and hope, and when not possible, temporarily escaping into other worlds.

By TARSHI

March 16, 2020

Editorial: Literature and Sexuality

As we move into a new year and a new decade we hope to be moving towards a more just and peaceful world, especially given the troubled times that people all over the world have been and are currently experiencing. And so, in this new year, we wish you lots of SISA spaces through 2020 and beyond!

By TARSHI

January 1, 2020

Editorial: Anthology Issue

In our mid-month issue, Amit Timilsina writes about the role class plays in the decisions that young people make, and what he himself, as a young person and a youth leader, had to do to gain access to resources and to professional acceptance.

By TARSHI

June 15, 2019

Editorial: Class and Sexuality

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In our mid-month issue Shilpa Phadke brings us an interesting mix of ideas woven from narratives of pleasure, danger, and resistance, among others, with regard to the digital streets of online spaces, and explores the conditions of possibility that will allow us to have fun in the online public space that is the Internet…

By TARSHI

April 15, 2019

Editorial: Public Space and Sexuality

To begin the year on a positive note, we have curated articles from older editions.We hope you will enjoy reading them again.

By TARSHI

January 2, 2019

Editorial: Anthology Issue 2019

beauty and Sexuality: Picture of a flower with a thick green stem and little pink buds emerging from all directions

Beauty gleams in unexpected places, but its effulgence turns to tawdry glitter when it is shaped and squeezed into form-fitting frames. Rigid ideas of what is beautiful or desirable can reinforce oppressive structures. However, when these concepts are more flexible they can be subversive as well.

By TARSHI

October 15, 2018

Editorial: Beauty and Sexuality

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Sexual desire is a potent force – it can and has led to all kinds of mayhem, but at the same time it can be a powerfully liberating and transformative force.

By TARSHI

August 14, 2018

Editorial: Desire and Sexuality

In the mid-month issue we carry the second part of Madhu Mehra’s interview with Shikha Aleya about the law, power, inequalities, sexuality, consent and building a sex-positive culture. As Madhu says, for navigating negotiations and consent within sexual relationships more work is needed than merely lessons in legal literacy.

By TARSHI

July 16, 2018

Editorial: Power and Sexuality

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In the mid-month issue we have articles about the power of language to name, shame, and wound as well as articles about the subversive potential of language to turn the established order on its head and sing and dance around it.Here we mean language, as in not-just-English.

By TARSHI

May 15, 2018

Editorial: Language and Sexuality

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In our mid-month issue we have an interesting medley of articles many of which talk about the memory of and in the body. Rashi Kapoor presents a therapist’s perspective on body memory and healing, Debanuj Das Gupta offers us a deeply personal and political insight into AIDS, melancholia and queer memory…

By TARSHI

April 16, 2018

Editorial: Memory and Sexuality