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Editorial: Sexuality and Self-care
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Editorial: Sexuality and Self-care

Continuing with our theme of self-care being about sustaining ourselves, our work, our movements, keeping the fires lit, and relating with love to ourselves, in our mid-month issue we bring you more articles looking at self-care from different perspectives – individual, queer, activist, collective, organisational, not necessarily separated, or in this order, of course.
By TARSHI
July 19, 2021
Editorial: Sexuality and Self-care
Editorial: Sexuality and Pleasure
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Editorial: Sexuality and Pleasure

Fragile and fleeting like soap bubbles, pleasure shines with many colours. But its iridescence is frightening for many. Perhaps because its colours change in unpredictable and uncontrollable ways, and though fragile and fleeting, it is a world in itself
By TARSHI
February 17, 2020
Editorial: Sexuality and Pleasure
Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality
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Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality

Members of a fandom are not just passive consumers but active co-creators who imagine and build new worlds around their objects of adoration. Fandom communities offer fans the freedom of being able to imagine, create and share all sorts of scenarios, including romantic, erotic and sexual ones.
By TARSHI
November 15, 2021
Editorial: Fandom and Sexuality
Editorial: Disability and Sexuality
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Editorial: Disability and Sexuality

Both sexuality and disability are complex terrains, offering a realm of possibilities that are often made unnecessarily complicated and unattainable by the mental maps we draw of them and the artificial barriers we erect.

By TARSHI
August 16, 2021
Editorial: Disability and Sexuality
Editorial: Anthology Issue – Wellbeing and Sexuality
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Editorial: Anthology Issue – Wellbeing and Sexuality

Happy New Year! As 2021 begins and we are filled with a sense of hope and desire for better times, we resolve to find ways of sustaining ourselves while caring for others. And so, in this anthology issue we republish articles about wellbeing.

By TARSHI
January 4, 2021
Editorial: Anthology Issue – Wellbeing and Sexuality
Editorial: Ageing and Sexuality
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Editorial: Ageing and Sexuality

Ageing is often associated with a loss, a lack of ability and strength. When combined with sexuality, in the popular imagination, fed especially by market forces, youth is to be lauded and ageing regarded as the impending horror that must be evaded for as long as possible.
By TARSHI
March 15, 2021
Editorial: Ageing and Sexuality
Editorial – Narratives and Sexuality
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Editorial – Narratives and Sexuality

Stories hold power. They shape how we understand the world, and if they are stories of distorted facts and falsehoods, they spread unease, discord and hatred. But stories also allow us to imagine other possibilities; they give us hope that we can overcome oppression and injustice.
By TARSHI
March 17, 2023
Editorial – Narratives and Sexuality
Editorial – Masculinities and Sexuality
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Editorial – Masculinities and Sexuality

It’s time to scrape off the thick dark crusts of carelessly slapped-on murky hues of toxic masculinities and to bring out the brushes and the paints to paint masculinities in their true and glorious colours of life, freedom and love.
By TARSHI
May 19, 2025
Editorial – Masculinities and Sexuality
Editorial – Digital Spaces and Sexuality
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Editorial – Digital Spaces and Sexuality

Digital entanglements transcend bodies, time, geographical borders and boundaries, influencing – and perhaps fundamentally changing – the ways in which we understand, explore and express our sexuality.
By TARSHI
December 18, 2023
Editorial – Digital Spaces and Sexuality
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
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Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality

100 issues, 8 years! Thank you, dear readers and contributors! As we planned for this issue to put on our…
By TARSHI
March 15, 2022
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
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Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom

If we are to reimagine coupledom and sexuality, we need to expand and challenge our ideas about togetherness, romance, love, intimacy, desire, sex, attachment, and so on.

By TARSHI
February 15, 2022
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
Editorial – Consent and Sexuality
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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
Editorial – Consent and Sexuality
Eden’s Witness
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Eden’s Witness

Today I told him that rain wasn’t from evaporation or condensation. I said clouds cried because they missed water so much.
By Taarina Therese Chandiramani
September 18, 2025
Eden’s Witness
Dosti, Main Love and Someone Special
Dosti, Main Love and Someone Special

This article is based on our research work in the two resettlement colonies of Dakshinpuri and Sanjay Camp, located in…
By Ekta and Sonam
February 15, 2018
Dosti, Main Love and Someone Special
Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish: A platonic togetherness
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Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish: A platonic togetherness

The movie was criticised for its stereotypical portrayal of Debu as a gay man. But, the beauty is that it also highlights the reversal of gender roles. The smiles, and the laughter sounding throughout the house, create a cheery note in the movie.
By Dr Swarupa N Kshirsagar
November 2, 2020
Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish: A platonic togetherness
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