intersectionality
Editorial– Climate Change and Sexuality
Climate change is not only about the climate; it is about our lives, joys, connections, intimacies, pleasures, freedoms, and rights.
By TARSHI
September 18, 2025
Interview – Raghavi S
Language is one of the most intimate things we share with one another, more than bodies, more than time.
By Shikha Aleya
July 16, 2025
The Language of the Eyes – Speaking Through Signs
Because we also understand and acknowledge the power of a single step forward, we decided to deep dive into working with sign languages for people who are deaf or hard of hearing and including them in the safe abortion rights dialogues.
By Nandini Mazumder, Ayesha Bashir and Suchitra Dalvie
June 17, 2025
Interview – Rumi Harish
My assertion of my gender was not because of masculinity, it was because of the feminism which I practised – and that gave me this chance to come back to what I was. To assert what I was and to assert what I am.
By Shikha Aleya
May 19, 2025
From Compliance to Critique: Localising Masculinity Work Through Feminist Praxis
…we must also address men’s relationships with their spouses, other men, women and children in the community, and importantly, their own emotional selves to transform fatherhood. Therefore, engaging with men as fathers must involve a holistic understanding of their socialisation, emotional world, and position within patriarchal structures.
By Anand Pawar
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
Queering the Paradigm: Dismantling Politics, Power, and Privilege
Queering, as a theoretical and practical approach, has emerged as a powerful means of challenging and dismantling established politics, power…
By Lipun Kumar Sanbad
Centring the Margins: Sex workers continue to battle for identity, entitlements and dignity after COVID-19
Ensuring the protection of sex workers’ physical and emotional wellbeing, as well as safeguarding their rights to life, profession, labour freedom, health, and reproductive and sexual rights is fundamental within a constitutional democratic society.
By Kuhika and Meher
Interview – Jyotsna Siddharth
Our bodies are the vessels through which we feel, emote, work or navigate our societies and the world at large. Our bodies are the real, live archive of everything we have experienced and they have borne the consequences of our social conditioning and decisions.
By Shikha Aleya
June 16, 2023
Brushstrokes: Body in Sexuality
Body is born, as a collection of many parts, into the various collections of bodies. Different combinations or collections are projected onto various historical, spatial and temporal dimensions, out of our needs, desires and capabilities.
By Abhinand Kishore
June 1, 2023
Video: Diversity and its Impact on the Workplace | ARTI CHAUDHRY | TEDxGIBS
If the workplace looked anything like our world, it would have 50% men and 50% women, 7% would have a college degree, 55% would have access to the internet, and only 70% would have access to a smartphone.
By Curated Content
Issue in Focus: The Heart of Being
To chase down our own vulnerabilities around sexuality is a short run around the corner, five minutes ago, last night sleeping alone, with a lover, a partner who lost interest, the Insta post that leaves you feeling you’re not good enough for the hug, the kiss, the cuddle and are you perhaps the A of LGBTQIA+?
By Shikha Aleya
January 3, 2023
Interview – Srila Roy
“Questions of difference should not be a cause for despair. There are examples from history and our own lives that show how we can connect across difference and stand in solidarity with one another…”
By Shikha Aleya
December 12, 2022
Issue in focus
Companions take many forms. Using the word very loosely here, a companion is anyone the self is connected to, anywhere, at any point in time, from a family member, to a stranger on a train.
By Shikha Aleya
November 15, 2022
The many hues of connections
Connection, to my mind, is one of those profoundly entrenched concepts manifesting itself throughout our lives. It is difficult to let go of.
By Adsa Fatima
October 17, 2022