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The Unqueer Classroom

I remember realising that ‘gender’ was a construct when I was 9 or so, that it wasn’t real. I was…

By Aradhana Phadke Sardesai

July 22, 2024

The Unqueer Classroom

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Queering the Paradigm: Dismantling Politics, Power, and Privilege

Queering, as a theoretical and practical approach, has emerged as a powerful means of challenging and dismantling established politics, power…

By Lipun Kumar Sanbad

July 22, 2024

Queering the Paradigm: Dismantling Politics, Power, and Privilege

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In Plainspeak publishes one issue every month, with a single theme running across two months. Our aim is to expand safe, inclusive self-affirming spaces.

CURRENT ISSUE:

April-May 2025: Masculinities and Sexuality

Masculinities broadly refers to the sets of attributes, behaviours, and expectations commonly associated with men or ‘male power’ in a given culture. With those very broad strokes, we could paint beautiful large canvases that glow richly with translucent colours spreading joy, vitality, and an abundant sense of wellbeing. However, in the current state of our world, the canvases are small, ill-proportioned and thickly layered with carelessly slapped-on murky hues; almost as if men, today, need to be shielded by thick dark crusts of the protections offered by newer and ever more curious forms of masculinities that are harmful to self and others.

UPCOMING ISSUE:

June 2025: Language and Sexuality

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