Pleasure
Editorial – Comprehensive Sexuality Education
While there is an oversaturation of information on sexuality, accurate, inclusive and affirming information is few and far between. Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) offers us multiple pathways to address these dilemmas.
By TARSHI
August 25, 2023
Editorial – Anthology Jan 2026
To remind us of what spaces that are safe, inclusive and self-affirming for each person could look like, we have curated a selection of articles from the last five years of In Plainspeak for this anthology – our gift to wish you a wonderful 2026.
By TARSHI
January 16, 2026
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
A space can make us feel constricted or liberated, and sometimes even both at the same and at varying times. The combination of spaces that we may be occupying in the moment, as well as those we have in the past, predisposes us to act, feel and experience our sexuality in different ways.
By TARSHI
April 18, 2022
Editorial – Sexuality and SISA Spaces
We envision SISA spaces as non-judgmental, inclusive, rights-based and affirming spaces wherein people’s sexuality, their identities, wellbeing, choices, desires and pleasure are respected.
By TARSHI
January 3, 2022
Editorial – Queering Sexuality
Queering transcends the confines of symmetry and is a way of looking, of breaking established meaning, of making new meaning, and of being and becoming that offers us the promise of fluidity, flux and freedom.
By TARSHI
December 12, 2022
Editorial – Language and Sexuality
The glorious heights of self-actualisation to which some words beckon us, the promises lying within others, it’s all language.
By TARSHI
July 16, 2025
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 – The Body and Sexuality
Our most powerful, sexy, responsive and attractive sexual organ may be the mind, but it is through the body that we express and experience our sexuality. Our body is our first and primary home; whether we truly feel at home in it is another matter.
By TARSHI
June 16, 2023
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
Do we dare?
Exploring sexuality is innovative in itself. What does that mean? Well at the outset, the very fact that we are willing to explore our bodies, their sexual expression, their ability to experience pleasure in so many different ways, and that we go beyond social norms is groundbreaking in itself.
By Asmi
August 3, 2020
Dirty Words, Sacred Nation: On Sexuality, Language, and Indian Morality
What gets silenced today isn’t just what’s obscene – it’s what’s inconvenient. What doesn’t sell. What asks us to take sex seriously or differently.
By Annika Amber
Desire Against Desire
Post the historic Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court in July 2009, a prominent English news magazine carried…
By Oishik Sircar
June 1, 2014
Clicking Nudes: Documenting The Journey Of Self-Love For My Body
As shocking as his request for a nude was, what confused me even more was why would he want nudes from me, a woman who hated her body? Would he appreciate these saggy breasts with their stretch marks? My ever growing thighs and my belly which has body hair on it, wouldn’t he think I’m ugly?
By Curated Content
February 17, 2020
Circle of Trust
None of these characters is perfect but in their imperfections we can learn more about body positivity, gender sensitivity, privilege, consent, unconscious and implicit bias, sexuality, masculinity, their intersections with class, religion, race, age, and more.
By ElsaMarie D'Silva
April 5, 2021