Gender
How would it be if we grew up embracing sexuality?
Growing up is a tedious task in our society because of the institutionalised practices, societal constructs and boxed identities and expressions that we are expected to adhere to. Anything beyond these implies harm, danger, and deviance.
By Sreejani
January 16, 2026
How to Have Good Sex?
During my interaction with students as a part of sexuality education classes in schools, one frequently asked question by boys is,“How to charm a girl?”
By Ramya Anand
September 4, 2018
How the popular media fails representation of women
Being a journalism student once, and having a network of seniors and batch mates who came from a journalism background,…
By Anshul Tewari
October 15, 2014
How Not To Do Body Positivity Fashion
For women like me, there is an enormous lack of options in addition to the market that relegates us to a corner of ‘plus-size brands’
By Trijita
September 20, 2023
How Masculine Am I?
I have dealt with having a non-masculine body since the time I was a teenager. I have questioned my sexuality and how it interacted with my non-masculine body.
By Asim Mudgal
May 19, 2025
How I Found Inclusivity Within Feminism
I was focused on becoming the ‘perfect’ feminist, based on the stipulations of mainstream feminism. The result: a deeply narrow conception of feminism,and it would take years to unlearn the ‘black-and-white’ mentality and embrace intersectionality.
By Feminism in India
May 15, 2019
Home-coming
The morning was heavy, laden with the weight of expectation, with the unsettling realisation that something was about to shift.
By Niv, Vanshika Gupta, Anjani Chadha
November 19, 2024
Haunted by Shame: The Struggle of Being Rendered Invisible
Where did my body go? This is a question I have asked myself repeatedly over the last two years. My…
By Reva Puri
September 1, 2021
Gender and Sesame Street
My mother was not a role model for me when I was growing up – not in the traditional sense…
By Sashwati Banerjee
October 1, 2014
From Compliance to Critique: Localising Masculinity Work Through Feminist Praxis
…we must also address men’s relationships with their spouses, other men, women and children in the community, and importantly, their own emotional selves to transform fatherhood. Therefore, engaging with men as fathers must involve a holistic understanding of their socialisation, emotional world, and position within patriarchal structures.
By Anand Pawar
Friends of Paper, Friends of Flesh
That’s what books do, they open up the world to new possibilities, let you live a life bigger than your own.
By Ambica Naithani
November 17, 2025
Fragile Facts and Fearless Feelings
That little baby born in spring,
Shall “he” identify as Queer?
Regardless, Polaris feels queer!
By Khawahish
November 19, 2024
Forced into illness!
For long, a major section of our population considered people belonging to sexual ‘minorities’ as being mentally ill. They believed…
By Almas Shamim
April 1, 2015
Finding The Pleasure Point In Internet Policy Spaces
Someone called me a policy animal a few years back and I grudgingly agreed that indeed I’m one of those people who does get excited by the idea of influencing policy negotiations and policymaking
By Curated Content
February 17, 2020
Finding Lit’s Political Potentials
Fiction is often relegated to a secondary stow because fact-based forms of knowledge are becoming more and more valued. To be informed is to stay with the facts. Yet I think fiction allows us to stay just about as informed.
By Shweta Krishnan
March 2, 2020