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Interview: Ute Pauline Wiemer on Lovetreats and Sex
A pink-coloured vibrating penis ring.

Ute Pauline Wiemer, along with her partner Balaji, founded Lovetreats in Bangalore in 2015. Lovetreats is an online retail space and discussion forum for people to buy intimate sexual wellness and health products as well as exchange ideas and learn about topics such as sexuality and intimacy.

By Anjora Sarangi
November 3, 2016
Interview: Ute Pauline Wiemer on Lovetreats and Sex
Video Page: How Not to React When You’re Invited to a Gay Wedding
How Not to React When You’re Invited to a Gay Wedding

This family is proud of their initiative to prepare for a gay wedding, though their refusal to perceive their own misconceptions keeps getting in the way!

By Curated Content
March 5, 2017
Video Page: How Not to React When You’re Invited to a Gay Wedding
These Pictures Give Voice to a Transwoman’s Assertion of Her Right to Equality
When Unconvential Things Happen in Conventional Settings: Gorgeous Transwoman’s Photographs With Her Husband

In the middle of such tightness around who can marry whom, where and how one can marry, and what kind of marriages are given social and legal sanction, we came across the story of Madhuri Sarode, a transwoman, transgender rights activist and classical dancer, and Jay Sharma, a machine operator in a steel goods manufacturing unit, who married each other in December last year.

By Curated Content
March 5, 2017
These Pictures Give Voice to a Transwoman’s Assertion of Her Right to Equality
Interview: A Conversation on the Personal and the Political with Queer Feminists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma
A Conversation on the Personal and the Political with Queer Feminists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma

Delhi-based queer feminist activists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma recorded a conversation they had about their views around marriage. While both women maintain their stances of critique towards the institution of marriage, what they agree upon and investigate as their chat progresses is that marriage has a pull that even its staunchest opponents will have to acknowledge and attempt to understand.

By TARSHI Team
March 15, 2017
Interview: A Conversation on the Personal and the Political with Queer Feminists Rituparna Borah and Jaya Sharma
Review: Nishit Saran’s ‘Summer in My Veins’
Summer in my veins

In 1994, Delhi boy Nishit Saran left home to study filmmaking at Harvard University. By 1999 he had made the searing Summer in My Veins, capturing on camera his own trepidation at coming out to his mother. It is an important, lovely and poignant film.

By Divya Swaminathan
April 3, 2017
Review: Nishit Saran’s ‘Summer in My Veins’
एक नश्तर जो त्वचा और मन, दोनों को भेद जाता है 
एक तस्वीर जिसमे एक इंसान की परछाई दिखाए दे रही है। वह इंसान एक खिड़की के पास बैठा हुआ नज़र आ रहा है

इसके अलावा एक और बात यह है कि सुंदरता के बारे में एक आम धारणा और दृष्टिकोण, जो कि मुझे पसंद नहीं आता, यह है कि किसी के सुंदर या आकर्षक होने या न होने का फैसला करने का अधिकार, या फिर कि क्या सुंदर है और क्या नहीं, ये फैसला करने का अधिकार पुरुषों को ही क्यों दिया जाता है।

By Pavel Sagolsem
June 29, 2020
एक नश्तर जो त्वचा और मन, दोनों को भेद जाता है 
Brushstrokes: Closets
A part of the webcomic ‘Closets’

Robot Hugs, in their insightful comic, take on closets as inherently oppressive structures built to uphold what is acceptable and…

By Curated Content
July 1, 2020
Brushstrokes: Closets
Poems by Nhylar
A watercolour image of a woman

1. A Certain Type of Life  since the age of 16 I idealised a certain type of life involving certain…

By Nhylar
July 1, 2020
Poems by Nhylar
Young People and Sexuality – The perspective of two queer allies
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As we sat down brainstorming about what course we were going to take next for As You Are (AYA –…

By Aditi and Sunali
July 1, 2020
Young People and Sexuality – The perspective of two queer allies
Why is it difficult to say, “I’m bisexual”?
A still from the film Batman & Robin

Being an adolescent is never easy. It is the beginning of one’s life journey to answering the ultimate existential question:…

By Shaleen Chrisanne
July 1, 2020
Why is it difficult to say, “I’m bisexual”?
A Garden of One’s Own
An image of a rocky, dusty terrain with two semi-circular stone structures with spherical rocks in the middle.

Therapy is a space to heal and grow. It helped me to accept my identity as an anxious, cisgender, South Asian, bisexual woman. Moreover, I have come up with the perfect response next time someone asks me, “But why do you think you are bisexual?”

By Poorva Parashar
August 3, 2020
A Garden of One’s Own
Technically, thanks to the techies

It is rather edifying to find information that one can relate to through a solitary rectangular box. Over time, this solitary box somehow stuck around while everything around it changed as the world moved even further into a digital era.

By Srishti Sarkar
August 3, 2020
Technically, thanks to the techies
The Mask of Age
An image of a mobile phone's screen with the Facebook app open. The letters 'faceb' are visible in white on a blue background.

As advocates of safe, inclusive and sexuality-affirming spaces, we can explore different ways to ensure that the people we are interacting with on dating platforms are legal adults and are not merely wearing a mask of adulthood.

By Andy Stephen Silveira
August 3, 2020
The Mask of Age
The Future Is TransFeminist: from imagination to action
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.

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.

By Curated Content
August 14, 2020
The Future Is TransFeminist: from imagination to action
I DELETE MYSELF: ANONYMITY AND SEXUALITY ONLINE
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.

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.

By Curated Content
August 14, 2020
I DELETE MYSELF: ANONYMITY AND SEXUALITY ONLINE
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