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Issue in Focus: A Travelling Sexuality
Issue in Focus: A Travelling Sexuality

There is a deep connect between travel and sexuality that is internalized at gut level. From birth perhaps. Across cultures. The two are almost metaphors for each other, twins, borrowing words from the lexicon of the other, entwining identity.

By Shikha Aleya
January 2, 2020
Issue in Focus: A Travelling Sexuality
Blossoming Into A Garden: Spirituality, Sexuality and All-Consuming Queer Love in ‘Puu’
Cover image of 'Puu', showing two queer people kissing
Blossoming Into A Garden: Spirituality, Sexuality and All-Consuming Queer Love in ‘Puu’

Puu, an episodic comic (consisting of 92 serialised episodes) created in 2016 by Nabigal-Nayagam Haider Ali – going by Nabi online – is woven together with vast, expansive threads of similar intense spiritual moments and reflections on devotion, faith, and love.

By Rohini Banerjee
November 15, 2019
Blossoming Into A Garden: Spirituality, Sexuality and All-Consuming Queer Love in ‘Puu’
Sexuality and Spirituality – Coming Full Circle
Sexuality and Spirituality – Coming Full Circle

What do we create for ourselves in that moment of acute awareness? Do we create empowerment, love, care, self-expression; or do we manipulate it to create abuse, distrust and disharmony? For, what is spirituality if not the uplifting of the human spirit? If sexuality is the medium for someone, what’s the problem?
By Asmi
November 1, 2019
Sexuality and Spirituality – Coming Full Circle
From Judy Blume To The Sexy Internet: What Counts As Erotica?
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From Judy Blume To The Sexy Internet: What Counts As Erotica?

I think the best thing we can do as we take this conversation forward is to consider this multifaceted breadth of desire as erotica; to include and not exclude in our definitions, and to accept desire wherever it lives, and in whatever form.

By Richa Kaul Padte
July 1, 2019
From Judy Blume To The Sexy Internet: What Counts As Erotica?
The Romance of Small Intimacies
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The Romance of Small Intimacies

For a while now, I have been invested in noticing the unique terms of endearment that characterise individual relationships. What are some of the non-verbal, non-physical ways in which couples begin to connect with each other? Intimacies that are so subtle that they are almost invisible and often hidden in plain sight?
By Curated Content
February 15, 2019
The Romance of Small Intimacies
Some Part of them Stays with You
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Some Part of them Stays with You

For them there is always a smile, and for them time has stood through. Memories are edged in the season of those years in which I met them.

By Pavel Sagolsem
February 15, 2019
Some Part of them Stays with You
Bodice-Rippers and Bad Education: Do Romance Novels Lead to Sexual Mistakes?
against an orange backdrop, a man leaning down to face a woman, they are in an intimate pose
Bodice-Rippers and Bad Education: Do Romance Novels Lead to Sexual Mistakes?

While we’ve grown used to hearing porn blamed for society’s ills, it’s now the medium’s comparatively matronly cousin – romance novels – that have come under scrutiny.
By Curated Content
December 15, 2018
Bodice-Rippers and Bad Education: Do Romance Novels Lead to Sexual Mistakes?
Sex and Me, an Intimate Affair
Sex and Me, an Intimate Affair

Loving sex has only opened doors for me to know more about the world and myself. It helps me love and appreciate myself more and also, to a fair bit, tolerate this hypocritical and violent world. It gives me hope.

By Pavel Sagolsem
November 1, 2018
Sex and Me, an Intimate Affair
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
Nostalgia, Love and Desire: A Personal Narrative
Two pictures are superimposed on each other. In the foreground is a picture of a woman standing on a beach. In the background is a picture of a little girl staring straight at us.
Nostalgia, Love and Desire: A Personal Narrative

I met Benjamin on a hot summer day in 20xx. I was still young, single, and blissfully unaware of the…
By Curated Content
November 15, 2017
Nostalgia, Love and Desire: A Personal Narrative
Veiled Desires
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Veiled Desires

I still remember my early childhood days when we used to get lessons on caste in our day-to-day lives. Coming…
By Prarthana
October 3, 2017
Veiled Desires
Brushtrokes: Queering Bombay’s Public Spaces
Couples sitting and kissing by a beach-side of an industrailised smoggy area, with palm trees and its' leaves waving in a strong wind.
Brushtrokes: Queering Bombay’s Public Spaces

This article/photo essay was originally published in Gaysi Family. In a society that heavily restricts expressions of sexuality, openly asserting…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Brushtrokes: Queering Bombay’s Public Spaces
Pyaar Online: Cruising Online for Love
Its a doodle of a girl and boy sitting facing their backs at eachoher. The girl is, wearing a yellow flower dress, looking at her phone. While the boy is using his laptop and has a red cup of coffee in one hand.
Pyaar Online: Cruising Online for Love

Generations come and go but the quest for love remains eternal. In the early 2000s, most of us millennials were…
By Divya Swaminathan
June 1, 2017
Pyaar Online: Cruising Online for Love
नारीत्व ≠ मातृत्व
An illustration of what makes a family using stick figures. Several different scenarios is sepearate circles. One shows two men and a child; another - a man, a woman, and a child; two women and a child; a man and a child; a woman and a child; two men; a man and a woman; two women; a man, a cat, and a dog; and last - a woman, a cat, and a dog.
नारीत्व ≠ मातृत्व

इस बात के अनेकों कारण हो सकते हैं कि महिलाएँ बच्चे क्यों नहीं चाहती हैं, ठीक वैसे ही जैसे इस बात के अनेकों कारण है कि वे बच्चे क्यों चाहती हैं। बच्चे होने के कारणों को सामान्य करार दिया जाना जबकि बच्चे ना होने की इच्छा को ‘सामान्य से अलग’ माना जाना, शर्मिंदा किया जाना और संदिग्ध की तरह करार दिया जाना, सभी के लिए नारीत्व का ‘एक ही अर्थ’ बनाने वाले है।
By Sheba Remy Kharbanda
October 17, 2016
नारीत्व ≠ मातृत्व
Womanhood ≠ Motherhood
An illustration of what makes a family using stick figures. Several different scenarios is sepearate circles. One shows two men and a child; another - a man, a woman, and a child; two women and a child; a man and a child; a woman and a child; two men; a man and a woman; two women; a man, a cat, and a dog; and last - a woman, a cat, and a dog.
Womanhood ≠ Motherhood

I love children and have at various times in my life flirted with the idea of adoption. But I have known since I was a child that I did not want to birth children. I have never been vague or ambivalent about this decision. I have been consistently clear and concise that this is not my calling.
By Sheba Remy Kharbanda
October 3, 2016
Womanhood ≠ Motherhood
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