innovations and sexuality Archives • In Plainspeak

A photograph of disability rights advocate and activist Amba Salelkar

Interview – Amba Salelkar

·September 1, 2020
·Shikha Aleya

But not every issue of discrimination and conflict can go to a court.Say for example, affording privacy to a young adult with disability to understand their body and sexual responses, or enabling them to access accessible sex toys or assistive devices related to sexual pleasure.

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Please Touch: Tactile Art as a Medium of Exploration

·August 14, 2020
·Isha Vajpeyi

Most of us, during childhood, internalised the lesson that sex or pleasure is ‘dirty’ and ‘bad’. Artists around the world are increasingly using ‘tactile art’ to challenge the shame and embarrassment that people feel when they look at their bodies.

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Probing the Screen: Pleasure in the Virtual World

·August 14, 2020
·Neel

The virtual world allows me to challenge the hold of patriarchy on my ‘effeminate’ body; in a sense, it allows me to evade the policing of desire that my body shares with another, its flows and slippages, the messy and the unkempt.

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I May Have Called You Baby But It Doesn’t Mean I Want One!

·August 14, 2020
·Anjali

Some nights I worry that if birth control for men is indeed released, clinical trials of which were suspended in 2016 as its side effects, incidentally the same as what women have been dealing with for ages, were just not worth it, it would be named Fuckboi.

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Journey from Stigma to Pleasure

·August 14, 2020
·Pooja Singh and Ramneek Banga

For a long time, female bodies were considered similar to male bodies, just shorter, and most research and medical trials focused primarily on the male body with the assumption that the same would work on the female body.

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A white woman about to kiss a seemingly ‘male’ robot.

For the love of technology! Sex robots and virtual reality

·August 14, 2020
·Curated Content

People we refer to as “digisexuals” are turning to advanced technologies, such as robots, virtual reality (VR) environments and feedback devices known as teledildonics, to take the place of human partners.

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On a black background, in capital letters, the words “I DELETE MYSELF”. The background has lines from the poem Delete by The Weird Queer Kid.

I DELETE MYSELF: ANONYMITY AND SEXUALITY ONLINE

·August 14, 2020
·Curated Content

Cyberspace has given the queer woman a chance to problematize the existing gender and sexual identities which, like any identity, is not static. It allows her to create and occupy spaces which will give her freedom and power in a way that the misogynistic physical world cannot provide.

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An illustration of a woman’s face and torso, superimposed with markers of digital engagement. Behind her, two octopus arms and from under the torso, palms and leaves flowering.

The Future Is TransFeminist: from imagination to action

·August 14, 2020
·Curated Content

Facebook. Google. Apple. Microsoft. Amazon. As the white male-dominated Big Five in Silicon Valley monopolise most platforms that guide online interactions almost everywhere outside China, any aspiration towards a feminist revolution has become capitalised.

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