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Freedom’s Pride: Looking Back Ten Years On
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Freedom’s Pride: Looking Back Ten Years On

In 2008, there were two important sets of events that happened: six weeks of intense hearings at the final arguments stage in the Naz Foundation case at the Delhi High Court, where section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was being challenged, and a bunch of folks in Delhi deciding that they were going to organize a Pride March. While these don’t seem obviously connected, they were both expressions of freedom, one in constitutional terms within the courtroom, and the other, a very public expression of freedom, taking to the streets.
By Siddharth Narrain
December 4, 2017
Freedom’s Pride: Looking Back Ten Years On
Freedom and sexuality: walking hand in hand with robots
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Freedom and sexuality: walking hand in hand with robots

Where we are now: In August this year the Supreme Court of India declared that privacy at its core includes…
By Suchitra Dalvie
December 4, 2017
Freedom and sexuality: walking hand in hand with robots
Freedom and an F Word
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Freedom and an F Word

What do you think of when you put the words freedom and sexuality together? Orgies? Polyamory? Sex with no unwanted…
By Radhika Chandiramani
December 4, 2017
Freedom and an F Word
Editorial: Freedom and Sexuality
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Editorial: Freedom and Sexuality

Freedom and sexuality – it sounds so liberating to some. But to some others, freedom is the spark that can…
By TARSHI
December 18, 2017
Editorial: Freedom and Sexuality
Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality
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Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality

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
Editorial – Movement and Sexuality
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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 – Movement 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
Bridging the gaps in an evolving language
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Bridging the gaps in an evolving language

Fashion is a language that expresses survival, rebellion, freedom, visibility and invisibility, identity, representation and inclusion.
By Shikha Aleya
October 19, 2023
Bridging the gaps in an evolving language
Bodies Seen Through a Kinky Lens
Photo from India's first-ever KinkCon. Two hands clasping each other, one of them has a black and red cuff around the wrist.
Bodies Seen Through a Kinky Lens

Our bodies become the form and medium through which we present ourselves to the outside world, engage with it, interact with it, perceive it and are perceived by it.
By iwonderwhy
June 1, 2023
Bodies Seen Through a Kinky Lens
Bodies Seen Through a Kinky Lens
Photo from India's first-ever KinkCon. Two hands clasping each other, one of them has a black and red cuff around the wrist.
Bodies Seen Through a Kinky Lens

Our bodies become the form and medium through which we present ourselves to the outside world, engage with it, interact with it, perceive it and are perceived by it.
By iwonderwhy
January 13, 2025
Bodies Seen Through a Kinky Lens
Between Fear and Freedom
एक चित्रण जिसमें एक लड़की को एक सड़क के बीच में खड़ा दर्शाया गया है। लड़की ने अपने दोनों कंधो पर एक बस्ता पहना हुआ है जिसमें से एक चाँद और एक तारा बाहर निकल रहे हैं।
Between Fear and Freedom

We are led to question what ‘safety’ really is: Will it be guaranteed by going gently, if at all, into that good night? Is it at all possible to freely and safely explore who we are and the world in which we live?
By Anjali
January 3, 2022
Between Fear and Freedom
Androgyny is a Quality of the Mind
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Androgyny is a Quality of the Mind

As clear as I was about my sexuality, I was just as unclear about how I wanted to look and what felt good.
By Debashree
September 20, 2023
Androgyny is a Quality of the Mind
A Café of Our Own?: The Politics of Queer Spatiality in Urban India
A Café of Our Own?: The Politics of Queer Spatiality in Urban India

This essay is a brief rumination about queer café’s in urban India. Written as part reflection, part recollection, this essay…
By Swati Vijaya and Debanuj Dasgupta
December 18, 2017
A Café of Our Own?: The Politics of Queer Spatiality in Urban India
‘From Son to Father’
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‘From Son to Father’

Dear Dad, There are times when I find writing a largely unproductive and tiresome exercise. For much of what is…
By Sahil Sood
December 4, 2017
‘From Son to Father’
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