Gender
The Debrief is a girlhood ritual as old as dating itself.
“दोस्त” का इकलौता विकल्प ख़ुद “दोस्त” है। स्थिर और एकमात्र।
If my sexuality is an integral part of who I am, then friendship is where I hope I can be who I am.
The only substitute for “friend” is “friend” itself. Irreplaceable, singular.
But we always, always know that when it’s the two of us, a label or a word isn’t needed or necessary. We both get each other.
How am I bringing myself into the erotic moment I am sharing with a lover?
We are trained to see friendship as secondary love, but what if it is the first?
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।
… technology, when designed with love and local wisdom, can transform both climate adaptation and sexual health outcomes.
Today I told him that rain wasn’t from evaporation or condensation. I said clouds cried because they missed water so much.
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.
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।
The glorious heights of self-actualisation to which some words beckon us, the promises lying within others, it’s all language.
Language is one of the most intimate things we share with one another, more than bodies, more than time.
… that feels so personal to me as a teenage girl, because it is indeed, “so confusing sometimes to be a girl.”