Gender
All the Quiet Between Us
We are trained to see friendship as secondary love, but what if it is the first?
By Sanandita Chakraborty
October 15, 2025
डिजिटल भारत में क्वीयर संबद्धता की तलाश
जबकि सोशल मीडिया और ऑनलाइन प्लेटफॉर्म भारत में क्वीयर लोगों को जुड़ने, ख़ुद को अभिव्यक्त करने और गैर-अपराधीकरण के बाद समुदाय ख़ोजने के लिए एक मंच प्रदान करते हैं, संबद्धता के विचार अभी भी जाति, वर्ग, सौंदर्यशास्त्र आदि में उलझे हुए हैं जो बहिष्कार को कायम रखते हैं।
By Vanshika Gupta and Niv
October 15, 2025
When Communities Fight Back – Climate Tech for Sexual Rights
… technology, when designed with love and local wisdom, can transform both climate adaptation and sexual health outcomes.
By Lakshmi Pillai Gupta
September 18, 2025
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
Love in May
My birthday is in May, a peak time of summer heat in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh. We knew that it was going to be hot, but did not have any idea of how bad it could get.
By Anahita Koshur
August 19, 2025
सेक्शूऐलिटी और जलवायु परिवर्तन – एक अदृश्य रिश्ता
सेक्शूऐलिटी और जलवायु परिवर्तन के कारण जलवायु आपदाओं के बीच का रिश्ता भले ही सीधा न दिखाई दे, लेकिन यह बेहद गहरा और महत्वपूर्ण है।
By Imran Khan
August 19, 2025
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
Interview – Raghavi S
Language is one of the most intimate things we share with one another, more than bodies, more than time.
By Shikha Aleya
July 16, 2025
La esquina de mi corazón
To be politically queer in a new language is an intoxication of all senses, revelation, outrageous freedom.
By Cat D
July 16, 2025
Languages of Love (and Sex)
I soon realised how central language is to our understanding of the world, and how language constitutes the limits and possibilities of our experiences and identities.
By Siddharth Narrain
July 16, 2025
क्या चुनना ज़रूरी है? जेंडर बाइनरी की वैधानिक और भाषिक हिंसा पर विचार
कानूनी नियमों और हिंदी भाषा के व्याकरणिक नियमों में एक ऐसी समानता है जो द्विलिंगी ढांचों अर्थात जेंडर बाइनरी में न आने वाले लोगों को बहिष्कृत करती है। कानून की नींव परिभाषाओं पर आधारित होती है।
By Prerna
सहमति की भाषा
हम भाषा पर निर्भर करते हैं। “हाँ” का मतलब इजाज़त देना, और “ना” का मतलब मुकरना। आसान और सरल शब्दों में हमें बताया जाए तो सहमति का मतलब इन्हीं दो अल्फ़ाज़ों से आता है। आसान है, है न?
By Fizza
July 16, 2025
Revealing the Code
What is the language, across languages, that we associate with sexuality? Is it healing? Empowering? Does this language comfort and console? Does it lift you up and make you feel good about who you are?
By Shikha Aleya
June 17, 2025
In Search of Ochin Pakhi
The aim of this piece is to bring to light the inherent queerness marking Baul folk music in Bengali, an oral undocumented spiritual expression that transcends heterosexual impositions and classism.
By Taniya Basu
June 17, 2025
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