law and sexuality

Editorial: Law and Sexuality
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In our mid-month issue, Stuti Tripathi considers whether raising the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21years is indeed a one-stop solution to check early marriages. She brings to our attention the many factors, such as family pressure, inaccessible educational and financial resources, traditionally defined roles of women, and gender-based marginalisation that together lead to early marriages and argues that young people need rights not protection.

By TARSHI
September 15, 2020
Editorial: Law and Sexuality
Age of Marriage: Rights not Protection
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It is necessary to recognize and address the key role that sexuality plays when it comes to our efforts against EFM. What we need to remember is that EFM “doesn’t just lead to a set of restricted choices; it reflects and reinforces a set of restricted choices that already exist.”

By Stuti Tripathi
September 15, 2020
Age of Marriage: Rights not Protection
PRIVATE PARTS: OBSCENITY AND CENSORSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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Around the world, LGBTQ+ activists, queer ‘sex-positive’ feminists, sex-workers, artists and educators are leading the charge against the increasingly complex webs of regulation and censorship of sexuality online, where corporate policies intersect with restrictive state law.

By Curated Content
September 15, 2020
PRIVATE PARTS: OBSCENITY AND CENSORSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Building better workplaces

The #MeToo movement gave voice to the existing pandemic of sexual violence globally, especially against women. Sexual violence against women was (and is) being perpetrated in every space–our homes, the streets, and the workplace.

By Curated Content
September 15, 2020
Building better workplaces
The Case For Platonic Relationships: Rethinking The Rules In Law And Society

The social value of the platonic relationship needs to be restated: Too many boys today grow up with the idea that their relations with women (who are not their mothers and/or sisters) are confined to an oversexualised romantic bubble.

By Curated Content
September 15, 2020
The Case For Platonic Relationships: Rethinking The Rules In Law And Society
The Caste of Marriage

LGBT struggle must be an anti-caste struggle. This requires us to go beyond thinking of caste and sexuality as merely an intersecting point which may be occupied by some within LGBT identities.

By Gowthaman Saroja Ranganathan
September 1, 2020
The Caste of Marriage
Is POCSO Failing Adolescent Sexuality?

Age of consent deems sexual activity with persons below the set age as statutory rape, which POCSO has set at 18 years. However, the law in practice faces some unintended consequences, in relation to who it prosecutes and their ages.

By Mrinalini and Udita
September 1, 2020
Is POCSO Failing Adolescent Sexuality?
Queer Women and Law: Desire and Betrayal
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Law is often violent – it incarcerates, shames our so-called deviance, and classifies who is worthy and not worthy of gaining access to rights and what kind of rights can be ceded at a particular moment. Yet, we believe we can change the law, make it sensitive to our existence

By Aishwarya Singh
September 1, 2020
Queer Women and Law: Desire and Betrayal
Canon Law and Queer Believers
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I am going to share a personal queer reading to help put forth what I mean. One day, while I was reading the gospel of John for my family, the final words of Jesus, made me wonder whether Jesus could have been gay.

By Roshan Roy
September 1, 2020
Canon Law and Queer Believers
PDA: Slippery Slope from Law to Moral Policing
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Sexuality is taboo in our context, and expressions of it publicly or even in the home setting outside the bedroom, especially by those who are not in ‘legitimate’ relationships ‘alarm the modesty’ and are generally considered anti-culture or simply categorised as Western concepts.

By Yoshita Srivastava
September 1, 2020
PDA: Slippery Slope from Law to Moral Policing
Title: Movie Review: Seeing Allred – The fight for equality goes on
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Allred’s story is important because it shows us how an individual used her knowledge, power, and position to challenge the legal system in demanding rights and equality, especially for women and LGBTQ+ people.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva
September 1, 2020
Title: Movie Review: Seeing Allred – The fight for equality goes on
Video: Explained: Transgender Act and how it affects the community
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Trans rights activist Kanmani Ray succinctly lays down the concerns around the Act, points out how its language reinforces the gender binary and highlights the fact that while seeking to protect the rights of trans people, the Act in fact discriminates against them.

By Curated Content
September 1, 2020
Video: Explained: Transgender Act and how it affects the community
Brushstrokes: Decriminalisation of Abortion in India
A slide of the graphic recording of the webinar series by CREA and CommonHealth. On a white background are coloured illustrations to give the effect of spiral writing pads and notes. A hand is visible till the forearm holding a pen and writing ‘The Implications of MTP Amendment on Access Beyond COVID-19’. The pointers are typographically presented.

The graphic representations of a three-part webinar series organised by Common Health and CREA address these questions and attempt to build an understanding of the decriminalisation of abortion and how it could ensure access to safe, affordable, timely and rights-based services.

By Curated Content
September 1, 2020
Brushstrokes: Decriminalisation of Abortion in India
Gallery: Police Brutality
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By Curated Content
June 1, 2014
Gallery: Police Brutality