Gender
No Birds No Bees
Aria walked into her school’s auditorium, giggling with the rest of the girls, because they were about to have their very first Sex Ed workshop.
By Aradhana Phadke Sardesai
December 18, 2024
Never Mind The Nipples: Sex, Gender and Social Media
Five snippets from three months. In August, Indian actress Poonam Pandey dons a bikini for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge…
By Bishakha Datta
October 1, 2014
Nazrein Milana, Nazrein Churana OR Your Selfie’s Eye: An Anecdotal Reflection
In 2013, ‘selfie’ entered the Oxford English Dictionary. By 2015, with front-facing phone cameras available on the cheapest of smartphones,…
By Paromita Vohra
My Fashion and Gender Journey: How I discovered they are both fluid
How could I be trans if I didn’t tick off all the correct checkboxes demanded by politics, law, society and even the transgender community itself?
By Kirti
October 19, 2023
Mobility And The “Missing Women” In The Labour Force
There is a direct correlation between mobility and sexuality. Women’s mobility does get hampered because of both social as well as economic reasons, leading to this contradictory fall in female LFPR despite a growing economy.
By Ritwika Patgiri
August 1, 2019
Meet me behind the bushes
With access to private spaces taken away on account of the pandemic, suddenly couples from liberal and affluent backgrounds found themselves in the same position as couples from less privileged backgrounds – desperately looking for pockets of privacy.
By Gitanjali
April 18, 2024
Media and Sexuality
The painting depicts a woman with a television set in place of her reproductive organs who is also…
By Sakshi Bhatia
October 1, 2014
Meanings and Meaninglessness
Gender has perplexed me throughout life. I never quite understood femininity or masculinity much – I mostly lived in what other people thought I was. One thing I did know always is that I never, ever, want to be seen as a man. But can I still hold masculinity?
By Sudipta Das
May 19, 2025
October 17, 2024
Masculinity and Media Literacy – Netflix’s Adolescence
Adolescence manages to highlight the reality of growing up in a world with the Internet where everything – the good, the bad, the questionable – is only a touch away.
By Ambica Naithani
April 17, 2025
Marriage And The Body As A Birthing Vessel
“I don’t always remember that I’m nearing thirty. On an average day the thought that I have a ticking time-bomb…
By Oindrilla DuttaGupta
December 1, 2013
Marked Women, Unmarked Men
If a woman’s clothing is tight or revealing (in other words, sexy), it sends a message — an intended one of wanting to be attractive, but also a possibly unintended one of availability. If her clothes are not sexy, that too sends a message, lent meaning by the knowledge that they could have been. There are thousands of cosmetic products from which women can choose and myriad ways of applying them. Yet no makeup at all is anything but unmarked. Some men see it as a hostile refusal to please them.
By Curated Content
June 17, 2016
Maraa | The Spirit of a Tree
Maraa means ‘tree’ in Kannada and it is the nature of a tree that we wish to embody, with strong roots, branches in different directions, growing tall but also wilting, dying and beginning again.
By Angarika Guha
October 17, 2024
Mamahood is not one size fits all
[slideshow_deploy id=’5968′] Mamahood is not one size fits all. All mamas deserve to be seen and honored in cards that…
By Curated Content
May 15, 2015
Loving Yourself
We carve strangers’ words onto our skin
like tattoos to be flaunted while hiding away
everything that we are from within.
By Aashi Singh
October 17, 2024