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With Love: A Special Issue on Sexuality, Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Self-care
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Any conversation on sexuality cannot exclude engagement with the myriad ways in which taboos around sexuality, the privileging of heteronormative ideals, the violence and marginalisation faced by people deviating from norms of sexuality and gender affect our mental health and well-being.
By TARSHI
June 15, 2022
With Love: A Special Issue on Sexuality, Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Self-care
हँसे या न हँसे?
a bunch of women stand defiantly

“अगर आप उसपर हँस सकते हैं तो सब कुछ मज़ाकिया है।” – लुईस कैरोल लुईस कैरोल को अधिकार-आधारित परिप्रेक्ष्य वाला…

By Jasmine George
December 15, 2018
हँसे या न हँसे?
Issue In Focus: A Travelling Sexuality
Painting of a woman standing free and elegantly on top of a moving bus, at sunset. Her hair flows back and one arm and leg are raised up in a graceful motion. From her hair flows bright pink and white glitter,

Travel and sexuality throws up different thoughts and feelings for us all. For me, it threw up the term travelling sexuality. I like it. Travelling sexuality. It sounds exotic or intellectual, adventurous, dangerous, depending on who you are and how you live life. A travelling sexuality could describe the way we evolve as sexual beings, shifting and changing identities.

By Shikha Aleya
March 1, 2016
Issue In Focus: A Travelling Sexuality
The Editorial: Humour and Sexuality
In Plainspeak English Audit In Plainspeak English Audit 100% 10 Painting of 3 women facing a sea. They rest their heads together, and have frogs and lizards circling their neck. Screen reader support enabled. Painting of 3 women facing a sea. They rest their heads together, and have frogs and lizards circling their neck.

“Humour is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.” Mary Hirsch, humourist Here’s…

By TARSHI
January 18, 2016
The Editorial: Humour and Sexuality
‘सेक्सी’ और मज़ाकिया महिलाओं से जुडी विसंगतियां
Comedian Aditi Mittal speaking into a mike.

क्रिस्टिन फ्रैंकर द्वारा पिछले वर्ष, एआईबी के बदनाम नाकआउट रोस्ट के दौरान कॉमेडियन अदिति मित्तल ने कार्यक्रम के पैनल पर…

By Kristin Francoeur
January 18, 2016
‘सेक्सी’ और मज़ाकिया महिलाओं से जुडी विसंगतियां
Meet The Woman Behind The Children’s Book ‘My Chacha Is Gay’
Cover of the comic "My chacha is gay". Shows the drawing of an older man with a moustache standing with his nephew

In this series, Special Features, we will be featuring people who have done groundbreaking work in the field of Gender,…

By Curated Content
January 18, 2016
Meet The Woman Behind The Children’s Book ‘My Chacha Is Gay’
Brushstrokes: The Sound of Laughter*
Drawing of a cow sitting under a tree. But the face of the cow is that of a man wearing sunglasses. The ends of a red gamcha around his neck flow in the wind.

[slideshow_deploy id=’8255′] [slideshow_deploy id=’8268′] “I want to put forward laughter and detachment as ways of resisting and refusing patriarchy by…

By Debolina Dutta
January 18, 2016
Brushstrokes: The Sound of Laughter*
To Laugh Or Not to Laugh
A group of girls wearing knee-length white dhotis, shirts, and goggles, with their hair tied back. "Women in jeans against indian culture - KJ Yesudas" is written opposite the photo. On the bottom is written "challenge accepted".

“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.” – Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll can be said to have a…

By Jasmine George
January 18, 2016
To Laugh Or Not to Laugh
Issue In Focus: What’s In a Joke?
Picture of British comedian Miranda Hart sitting down

Last January, armed gunmen stormed the Paris office of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 and injuring 11, because…

By Shweta Krishnan
January 4, 2016
Issue In Focus: What’s In a Joke?
Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing
Abish Matthew in a white shirt and black coat speaking into ear mike on a stage.

In March 2015, a popular Indian comic, Abish Mathew, performed at a college festival at the National Law University (NLU)…

By Noopur Raval
January 4, 2016
Casually Sexist Humour and the Reasonable Limits of Feministing
…‘Raised on These Jokes’…
A man's red underwear. "Stop and smell the" written over a penis-shaped cutout in the centre.

“Tell me something,” the 15-year-old asked her mother, “what is it like the first time?” “You, in your age and…

By Shikha Aleya
January 4, 2016
…‘Raised on These Jokes’…
Brushstrokes: #FeministBollySongs
A film still of Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor dancing with Holi colours thrown on them. Over the picture is a screenshot of a tweet that reads, "Balam pichkari joh tune mujhe mari, toh seedhi saadhi chhori ne harassment ki FIR likha di. & she was taken seriously. #FeministBollySongs"

Twitter has been rumbling with chuckles and giggles over the last few days with a trending slew of Tweets and…

By Curated Content
January 4, 2016
Brushstrokes: #FeministBollySongs
Video Page: Of Marriageable Age
Picture of Priyam Redican standing in front of a mic. She is wearing a black top and has short shoulder-length hair
January 4, 2016
Video Page: Of Marriageable Age
Being Funny and Also Politically Correct: Is That a Paradox?
A school boy trying to move through several intersecting and haphazard green light rays without touching any. On top of the photo is written, "Trying to make a joke that doesn't offend anyone in 2015."

I was involved in creating a social media presence for TARSHI that was rights-based and pleasure-affirming. It was not always…

By Tanisha Chadha
January 4, 2016
Being Funny and Also Politically Correct: Is That a Paradox?