LGBTQIA
#MardonWaliBaat – The Journey between ‘Listening’ and ‘Being Heard’
In the fast-paced digital world of clickbaits and instant gratification, where you can be ‘cancelled’ or ‘trending’ within the same minute, the very act of men talking to other men about alternative masculinities, has the ability to disrupt hierarchies of power, to disrupt the algorithm, to disrupt patriarchy.
By Mariyam Sara and Nida Ansari
How Masculine Am I?
I have dealt with having a non-masculine body since the time I was a teenager. I have questioned my sexuality and how it interacted with my non-masculine body.
By Asim Mudgal
May 19, 2025
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
Not Quite Anything
He didn’t wear his identity on his sleeve, and therefore he seemed more real than most people who did.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
May 19, 2025
मर्दानगी को पोषित करती मान्यताएं
किशोरावस्था के दौरान जब हम अपनी यौनिकता से रूबरू हो रहे होते हैं, तब सामाजिक तौर पर हमे बताया गया जेंडर ही निर्धारित करता है कि हम अपनी पहचान कैसे बना रहे हैं जो ज़्यादातर मामलों में हमारी पूरी ज़िन्दगी को प्रभावित करती है।
By Naresh Kumar
May 19, 2025
दो कविताएँ
दो कविताएं – हवेली आधुनिकता के आवरण में क्षयग्रस्त पारंपरिक पुरुषत्व को दर्शाती है, जबकि चारपाई कठोर और लचीली अभिव्यक्तियों के बीच विरोधाभास प्रस्तुत करती है, जहां जो जिस चारपाई पर बैठते हैं, उसके गुणों को अपनाते हैं, जो भिन्न-भिन्न पुरुषवादी पहचानों का प्रतीक है।
By Sakshi Nain Bishnoi
May 19, 2025
Toxic Soup
Even her talking to other men elicits a growl from these men, and it’s all supposed to be okay because they’re billionaires and 6’5 feet tall or something, oh and did I mention the abs?
By Aradhana Phadke Sardesai
April 17, 2025
The Villainised Other: Understanding Portrayals of Female Masculinity in Bollywood
Apart from the masculinity portrayed in commercial films with heterosexual tropes, Bollywood has produced movies portraying distorted female masculinity.
By Soumili Paul and Tiyasha Purohit
The Masques Of Masculinity
Z is forced to wear the mask of masculinity, a mask made of the various tropes of stereotypical masculine energy…
By Hardik Jain and Shrusti Mulgund
April 17, 2025
To Exist is to Defy
The novel turns the idea of masculinity on its head through the story of Brit, a boy who is as sharp as he is fragile. Born with osteogenesis imperfecta, Brit’s bones break easily, but his spirit doesn’t.
By Abhigya Singh
April 17, 2025
Ten Years of Changing the Script
Masculinity is like a script given to boys early in their lives. There is a constant pressure to fit into the box of toughness, and be silent and dominating. But what if we all rewrite this script?
By Urasmita Ghosh
April 17, 2025
मर्दानगी पर पुनर्विचार – प्रभुत्व से नहीं, साझेदारी से बनता है मर्द
पितृसत्ता ने मर्दानगी को विषमलैंगिकता और यौनिक वर्चस्व से जोड़ा है, जिससे पुरुषों पर ‘सच्चा मर्द’ बनने का दबाव बढ़ता है। यह न केवल समलैंगिक और द्विलैंगिक पुरुषों को हाशिए पर डालता है, बल्कि विषमलैंगिक पुरुषों के लिए भी यौनिक अभिव्यक्ति को सीमित करता है।
By Imran Khan
बाल विवाह की दुनिया में लड़कियों की यौनिकता पर हर किसी का नियंत्रण – एक असहज चर्चा
एक आदमी होने का मतलब है काफी कुछ भी अपने काबू में रखना। अपना व्यवसाय, अपनी भावनाएं, अपना घरबार, और खासकर अपनी यौन ज़िंदगी।
By Anne Sprinkel
Editorial – Consent and Sexuality
Looking down upon the earth from many miles up in the sky, the divisions between land masses and water bodies…
By TARSHI
March 17, 2025
All The Shades Of Grey
Language can be a limiting thing when it alone is considered to be the marker of success or failure in intimate spaces. Sometimes we get stuck on what is said and fail to notice what is done in relationships. At other times, denial of a need, request, or crossing of one boundary can make us feel like the entire relationship has lost its value.
By Reema Ahmad
March 17, 2025