Gender
Sexuality makes me think of an erotic adventure. Something that helps us be alive to the world around us, and to life around us.
The relationship with my body is so fragmented that there’s not a primary “real” me, and that’s also how I locate queerness within disability.
Sexuality is fluid, embodying my emotions, and their expression, thereby creating an aspect of my identity central to me.
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.
If you’ve got a body, in which you’re going to negotiate this life, you have to know how it works.
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.
What does belonging, then, look like in urban India for people from different social, economic and political backgrounds?
Food is some sort of extension of our bodies, our identities, and therefore food and sexuality intersect in a myriad ways.
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.
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.
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.
I would once again be theirs, in memory, on the day my lover would die.
One gets introduced to feminism through various modes: through books, through university courses, through parents and sometimes one does not…
How am I bringing myself into the erotic moment I am sharing with a lover?
We become women before we become a woman. Of course, we don’t need to try hard to do so…We learn the sides and folds of the gendered box we are in before we gain the perspective to decide we don’t fit in and build a customised box or choose to have no box at all.