Gender
Does Your Period Tracking App Ask You About Your Sexuality Or Your Contraceptive Pills?
Period tracking applications can also inform you about your general reproductive health and also caution you in case of an anomaly with respect to it. As menstruators in our undergraduate years, the primary reason I saw my friends using period trackers were to keep a track of when to carry menstrual products to college or avoid the risks of pregnancy.
By Curated Content
Dirty Words, Sacred Nation: On Sexuality, Language, and Indian Morality
What gets silenced today isn’t just what’s obscene – it’s what’s inconvenient. What doesn’t sell. What asks us to take sex seriously or differently.
By Annika Amber
December 1, 2013
February 17, 2026
CSE Matters. Now What?
Teachers are learners themselves
By Ayesha Khaliq, Gayatri, Nandhini, and Tanvika
July 13, 2026
COVID-19: Can A Health Crisis Become A Breeding Site For Gender Inequality?
The novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has become a breeding site of gender inequality with social distancing measures that threaten…
By Feminism in India
Community and Sexuality: Learning a Politics of Unbelonging
After writing the words “Community and Sexuality” as the working title of this piece, I attempted to begin writing many…
By Chayanika Shah
Claiming One’s Space After False Sexual Harassment Allegations
Those who are rendered vulnerable due to their gender or sexuality, particularly those who are economically and socially disadvantaged (or less powerful) and lack the agency to speak up for themselves, are more prone to allegations, social ostracism and marginalization.
By Andy Stephen Silveira
City Scapegoats
A part of me is strong, independent, and quick to dismiss all kinds of uniformity. The other part is bashful, fearful, and somewhat assenting to a vast compromise.
By Andal Srivatsan
April 18, 2024
Charting Queer Spaces: Lessons in Body and Belonging
Who gets to imagine this utopian sociality, or future, of the queer movement?
By Susmit Panzade
October 17, 2024
Can’t Help Blending With You
…something truer than thought starts to climb upwards.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
February 17, 2026
Building Safe Spaces In Threatening Places
If sharing was a proverbial coin at the rehabilitation facility, connections were one side of it, and sexuality was the other. Men and women were not allowed to touch one another – no handshakes or hugs or an eager slap on the back.
By Trijita
November 15, 2022
Brushtrokes: Representation in Comics
Comicbooks sell us the fantasy of larger-than-life superheroes, the victory of good over evil, the promise of fighting for a better, inclusive world. But alas, when it comes to the characters themselves, this very inclusivity is often nowhere to be found.
By Curated Content
December 3, 2018
Brushstrokes: Women In India’s Rape Capital
[slideshow_deploy id=’7290′] The city that has come to be touted as the “rape capital” proves to be the ideal ground…
By Curated Content
November 1, 2015
Brushstrokes: The Many Shades of Fashion
For many people, fashion serves as a vehicle for expressing their unique identities, their political beliefs, and their sexual orientation.
By Pragya Solanki
October 19, 2023