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The Time Machine – 5 In Plainspeak Articles that Celebrate Sexuality in its Diverse Forms!
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The In Plainspeak team decided to time travel and re-discover previously published articles that explore the multiple ways in which people find joy and pleasure in their sexualities.

By TARSHI
March 15, 2022
The Time Machine – 5 In Plainspeak Articles that Celebrate Sexuality in its Diverse Forms!
Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality
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Members of a fandom are not just passive consumers but active co-creators who imagine and build new worlds around their objects of adoration. Fandom communities offer fans the freedom of being able to imagine, create and share all sorts of scenarios, including romantic, erotic and sexual ones.

By TARSHI
November 15, 2021
Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality
For the Joy of it
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Of course, I knew I wasn’t the only person in the world writing about Sherlock Holmes. I, however, thought I was the only one in the world writing about them like that. You know.
Romantically.

By Saswati
November 1, 2021
For the Joy of it
Flipping the Script: 4 Reasons Fan Fiction Is a Feminist Pursuit
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We need more spaces for marginalized people to express themselves. Although pop culture and mainstream media have yet to feature the diversity and representation we crave, fan fiction can help to fill in those gaps. And that is nothing short of feminist.

By Curated Content
March 16, 2020
Flipping the Script: 4 Reasons Fan Fiction Is a Feminist Pursuit
Of ‘Kinkfests’ And Forbidden Fantasies: The Subversive Potential of Erotic Fanfiction
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In a society where queer sexuality had been demonised in not just mainstream fiction but also mainstream culture, the erotic fanfiction that emerged out of kinkfests became an important source of queer sex-positivity.

By Rohini Banerjee
July 15, 2019
Of ‘Kinkfests’ And Forbidden Fantasies: The Subversive Potential of Erotic Fanfiction
Queer Fanfiction and the Possibility of Queer Happy Endings
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Fanfiction was more than just writing your own stories about the characters or the setting of your favourite book or TV show; it was a questioning of the dominant mainstream pop culture narrative as a whole.

By Rohini Banerjee
December 15, 2018
Queer Fanfiction and the Possibility of Queer Happy Endings