Misogyny

Jasmine Stains
A pictures of the reddish-green leaves and branches of a plant, against a bright green background

Desire is a man’s turf, right up there with moustaches and Adam’s apples / I’m the apple, I am the snake, I am Eve / I am the vibrator nestled between flimsy, cheap lace underwear / I am the shame, of saying I came

By Malini Gopalakrishnan
January 2, 2019
Jasmine Stains
Editorial: Popular Culture and Sexuality
picture of a high-heel shoe, it is orange in colour with patterns on it

And so, in the mid-month issue we have Shweta Krishnan examining the place of political incorrectness in stand-up comedy, Rohini Banerjee talking about how fanfiction allowed her to delve into alternative worlds, and…

By TARSHI
December 15, 2018
Editorial: Popular Culture and Sexuality
Issue in Focus: The Script of Love
the script of love: still of a crying 'tulsi' from 'kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi'

The discursive power vested in audio-visual media can prove to be emancipatory if it seeks to re-write the scripts of love, to expand it to include various subjectivities, disturb the patriarchal gendered dynamics that it is based on by introducing a story that allows the audience to imagine it in various different ways.

By Anannya Chatterjee
December 3, 2018
Issue in Focus: The Script of Love
Why We Don’t Get Consent
Illustration of a woman dressed in black, holding her hand up in a gesture of protest

But here is the thing. In heterosexual relationships, how are women and men going to learn to see women’s desires if the world does not see them? If the world is shaped to conform to a certain type of man’s desires only? Where is consent without a diversity of desires and a galaxy of desirability?

By Curated Content
November 15, 2018
Why We Don’t Get Consent
Sex in the Times of Menopause
A series of abstract drawings in pink and green, with the cutout of a dancing girl towards the left

I am single and successful in the city. My general health is under control. I can still pull off an all-nighter maybe once a quarter. My sexuality and desire have evolved and matured with my age. Heck, in my eyes, I am Mrs. Robinson. But the eye candy at the bar sees me as Miss Havisham.

By Sashwati Banerjee
August 1, 2018
Sex in the Times of Menopause
Jasmine Stains
A pictures of the reddish-green leaves and branches of a plant, against a bright green background

My hair smells like jasmine / From the wedding I went to last night / When I tethered my untameable hair with flowers,

By Malini Gopalakrishnan
August 1, 2018
Jasmine Stains
The contest of gendered spaces at home
Sanitary napkins made of cloth. (Image credit: The Kachra Project)

So, even though “home” is supposed to be a place of comfort – a personal space which should allow us to express our gender, sexuality and bodies freely – this notion of home stands defeated in reality, where there are certain unsaid rules which govern the distribution and use of space.

By Zeba Siddiqui
March 5, 2018
The contest of gendered spaces at home
A World Away: HIV in Central Asia
Street with tin roof houses in a hilly area. Snow-capped mountains can be seen behind.

In the spring of 2005, working with a medical NGO, I and five colleagues (two critical care flight paramedics, a…

By Curated Content
December 15, 2015
A World Away: HIV in Central Asia
India’s Daughter: When Men Come Together, But Women Stand Divided
Poster of a documentary. On a black background is written, "India's Daughter - The Story of Jyoti Singh", with "Daughter" in red and everything else in white. The tittle of two i's in IndIa are flames, making the I's look like candles.

Two weeks before India’s Daughter made it to the headlines, I came across this new pledge for Delhi school kids,…

By Shweta Krishnan
March 16, 2015
India’s Daughter: When Men Come Together, But Women Stand Divided
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