Gender
The pandemic and lockdown isolation made recovery harder for people with sex or porn addiction because of a lack of support systems that enabled their recovery.
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Aastha Khanna is India’s first intimacy coordinator who is making sure that a film’s vision is realised without flouting anyone’s boundaries, or leading to general awkwardness on set, especially when it comes to intimate scenes.
Fashion is a language that expresses survival, rebellion, freedom, visibility and invisibility, identity, representation and inclusion.
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?
Why must others judge her appearance and grace
When true beauty is not confined to a face?
In a world obsessed with the outer shell,
She knows in her heart inner beauty dwells.
For many people, fashion serves as a vehicle for expressing their unique identities, their political beliefs, and their sexual orientation.
What if we refused to assimilate? What if we collectively decided to dress in a way that made it so society could not render us invisible?
While women’s colleges are certainly a step ahead of other institutions in creating spaces of liberation and encouraging freedom of choice, this rare advantage must expand itself onto the landscape of our entire country.
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’
As clear as I was about my sexuality, I was just as unclear about how I wanted to look and what felt good.
I find that my own clothes are all just pieces of a larger archive I’m slowly constructing: an archive of the women I love, a half-hearted attempt at mimicking what I love.
Food is some sort of extension of our bodies, our identities, and therefore food and sexuality intersect in a myriad ways.
So why do we have to have fixed notions of gender roles and food?
For transgender persons the body is a very critical juncture where a lot of trans politics happens, given the fact that a lot of our identities in terms of gender do not match how we see our bodies.