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Exploring Consent Through The Film SUNO
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Exploring Consent Through The Film SUNO

There may be situations in which a person’s responses might not be unquestionably equated with consent. Is consent merely a ‘yes’ or does one need to look for other cues to make sure their partner wants the same thing as them when it comes to intimacy?
By Aratrika Datta
March 17, 2025
Exploring Consent Through The Film SUNO
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
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Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy

Everyone talks about how nobody can put a price on how much homemakers do for us, but nobody talks about the kind of behaviour they are subjected to almost every day.

By Anuja Tripathy
November 19, 2024
Emotional Slaps: The Invisible Wounds of Patriarchy
Editorial– Friendship and Sexuality
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Editorial– Friendship and Sexuality

Friendship – a place where we can be ourselves as we truly are, with no artifice. A place of peace,…
By TARSHI
November 17, 2025
Editorial– Friendship and Sexuality
Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality
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Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality

Are certain forms of femininities denigrated more than others? Not just by misogynists but also by feminists? Is there a particular way of manifesting an ‘appropriate’ femininity, one that is just right, and is not ‘too girly’ or ‘too tomboyish’?

By TARSHI
December 15, 2020
Editorial: Femininities and Sexuality
Editorial: Anthology Issue
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Editorial: Anthology Issue

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
Editorial: 2025 Anthology Issue
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Editorial: 2025 Anthology Issue

It is time perhaps to go off the beaten path!
By TARSHI
January 13, 2025
Editorial: 2025 Anthology Issue
Editorial – Masculinities and Sexuality
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Editorial – Masculinities and Sexuality

It’s time to scrape off the thick dark crusts of carelessly slapped-on murky hues of toxic masculinities and to bring out the brushes and the paints to paint masculinities in their true and glorious colours of life, freedom and love.
By TARSHI
May 19, 2025
Editorial – Masculinities and Sexuality
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
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Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality

100 issues, 8 years! Thank you, dear readers and contributors! As we planned for this issue to put on our…
By TARSHI
March 15, 2022
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
Editorial – Anthology Jan 2026
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Editorial – Anthology Jan 2026

To remind us of what spaces that are safe, inclusive and self-affirming for each person could look like, we have curated a selection of articles from the last five years of In Plainspeak for this anthology – our gift to wish you a wonderful 2026.

By TARSHI
January 16, 2026
Editorial – Anthology Jan 2026
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
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Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom

If we are to reimagine coupledom and sexuality, we need to expand and challenge our ideas about togetherness, romance, love, intimacy, desire, sex, attachment, and so on.

By TARSHI
February 15, 2022
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
Editorial – Language and Sexuality
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Editorial – Language and Sexuality

The glorious heights of self-actualisation to which some words beckon us, the promises lying within others, it’s all language.
By TARSHI
July 16, 2025
Editorial – Language and Sexuality
Editorial – Consent and Sexuality
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Editorial – Consent and Sexuality

Looking down upon the earth from many miles up in the sky, the divisions between land masses and water bodies…
By TARSHI
March 17, 2025
Editorial – Consent and Sexuality
Eden’s Witness
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Eden’s Witness

Today I told him that rain wasn’t from evaporation or condensation. I said clouds cried because they missed water so much.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
September 18, 2025
Eden’s Witness
Digital Intimacies, Gendered Exposure, and the Violence of Virality
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Digital Intimacies, Gendered Exposure, and the Violence of Virality

Intimacy – whether sexual, emotional, or relational – cannot be treated as raw material for consumption without consequence
By Daraa Patel
February 17, 2026
Digital Intimacies, Gendered Exposure, and the Violence of Virality
Digital Intimacies and Sexuality – Editorial
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Digital Intimacies and Sexuality – Editorial

We humans are sometimes able to squeeze kindness out of a stone. And love out of nowhere.
By TARSHI
March 17, 2026
Digital Intimacies and Sexuality – Editorial
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