Gender

Queer Heterosexual, Heterosexual Queer: Two Tales of Queer Love 100 Years Apart
A poster of the film ‘Chitrangada’ by Rituparno Ghosh. In the poster, the protagonists are caressing each other
Queer Heterosexual, Heterosexual Queer: Two Tales of Queer Love 100 Years Apart

The lovers enact many recognizable hetero-normative romantic tropes – the wronged petulant woman pacified via kisses and caresses, the woman too tired for sex who then tries to placate the sulking male lover.
By Mamatha Karollil
December 1, 2020
Queer Heterosexual, Heterosexual Queer: Two Tales of Queer Love 100 Years Apart
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India
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Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India

What does belonging, then, look like in urban India for people from different social, economic and political backgrounds?
By Vanshika Gupta and Niv
November 19, 2024
Queer Be(long)ing in Digital India
Place your orders
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Place your orders

Food is some sort of extension of our bodies, our identities, and therefore food and sexuality intersect in a myriad ways.

By Shikha Aleya
July 17, 2023
Place your orders
Outlander: A Review
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Outlander: A Review

Time and time again, Galbaldon asks us, through the character of Claire, to remember that we are travelers, we move and are moved by the interactions and environments around us.

By Dana Burton
September 17, 2018
Outlander: A Review
Oscar Winner Lupita Nyong’o’s Speech on Beauty That Left An Entire Audience Speechless
Photo of actress Lupita Nyongo speaking from a podium. She is wearing a white dress.
Oscar Winner Lupita Nyong’o’s Speech on Beauty That Left An Entire Audience Speechless

But a few days before her historic Oscar win (for the first movie she’s ever been in!) Lupita accepted an award for Best Breakthrough Performance at the seventh annual Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon hosted by Essence magazine. It was there she delivered a speech on beauty that every little girl should hear.
By Curated Content
May 15, 2014
Oscar Winner Lupita Nyong’o’s Speech on Beauty That Left An Entire Audience Speechless
On Trans-Masculine Lesbianism: The Values in the Unintelligible
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On Trans-Masculine Lesbianism: The Values in the Unintelligible

Unlike many trans-masculine people who identified as lesbians/tomboys/butch pre-transitioning, I refused to abandon my ‘lesbian’ identity post-transitioning. A negotiation that took time to flourish.
By Aranya Vadera
May 19, 2025
On Trans-Masculine Lesbianism: The Values in the Unintelligible
On the day my lover would die
Sliced white and brown mushrooms on brown wooden table.
On the day my lover would die

I would once again be theirs, in memory, on the day my lover would die.
By Sara Haque
April 18, 2024
On the day my lover would die
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream
Black and white photo of two young women speaking on a stage, reading out from the sheets of paper in their hands. One wears a saree, and has curly hair left open. The other wears a top, and has her hair open falling till her chest. She holds a rectangle-shaped structure in front of her face through which she sees across.
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream

One gets introduced to feminism through various modes: through books, through university courses, through parents and sometimes one does not…
By Jasmine George
November 1, 2015
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream
On Loverships, F**kships and Friendships
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On Loverships, F**kships and Friendships

How am I bringing myself into the erotic moment I am sharing with a lover?
By Andy Stephen Silveira
October 15, 2025
On Loverships, F**kships and Friendships
On Being Gay and Muslim
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On Being Gay and Muslim

My entire life has been a struggle of confused identities. I stood at the intersection of gay, Muslim and economic privilege.
By Aersh
July 15, 2017
On Being Gay and Muslim
Of Mobility, Ability and Identity
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Of Mobility, Ability and Identity

People make assumptions about both mobility and sexuality and quite often reduce them to a few simple, unidimensional concepts. Sexuality is reduced to sex, marriage and the gender binary. Mobility is reduced to ableist concepts of body and capacity, and access to, or the possession of, a vehicle to get from point A to B.
By Shikha Aleya
August 1, 2019
Of Mobility, Ability and Identity
Of Identity and Belongings: The Gatekeeping within Queer Spaces
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Of Identity and Belongings: The Gatekeeping within Queer Spaces

I went to a girls’ high school and for somebody who had spent the last ten years in a co-ed…
By Shubhangi
September 1, 2022
Of Identity and Belongings: The Gatekeeping within Queer Spaces
Of Braille, Fighter Pilots and a Sexuality-Informed Approach to Science
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Of Braille, Fighter Pilots and a Sexuality-Informed Approach to Science

I spent time reading up the basics of gender-neutral design to understand the connect between science, society and gender. Sometimes, some people try to prove that there are ‘scientific’ reasons for inequality and injustice, for depriving one set of people of the same choices and opportunities that another set of people enjoy. This is not true. Times are changing. ‘Biased technologies’ are being altered.
By Shikha Aleya
July 1, 2016
Of Braille, Fighter Pilots and a Sexuality-Informed Approach to Science
Nothing for us without us: Young People and Development
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Nothing for us without us: Young People and Development

There are many mechanism, agendas and processes such as the post-2015 mechanism in development to ensure gender equality and ‘to…
By Sarah Soysa
September 1, 2015
Nothing for us without us: Young People and Development
Not Quite Anything
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Not Quite Anything

He didn’t wear his identity on his sleeve, and therefore he seemed more real than most people who did.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
May 19, 2025
Not Quite Anything
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