queerness

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
Issue in Focus: Knowing Sex
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Issue in Focus: Knowing Sex

We might need, therefore, to uncouple sexuality from intimacy because they do not necessarily belong together. Intimacy points to the comfort of knowledge while sexuality often shatters what knowledge we think we have.

By Madhavi Menon
February 1, 2019
Issue in Focus: Knowing Sex
Confessions of a Queer man
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Confessions of a Queer man

What I can say is that I tried to be the best lover for a woman, and I am much obliged to the girls I dated then for trying with me.

By Pavel Sagolsem
February 1, 2019
Confessions of a Queer man
Queering Silence: Sandip Roy’s “Don’t Let Him Know”
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Queering Silence: Sandip Roy’s “Don’t Let Him Know”

Using silent actions and secret fulfillment of what society considers as sin and the law condemns as illegal, the text offers an example of the silence of resistance.

By Jayaprakash Mishra
December 3, 2018
Queering Silence: Sandip Roy’s “Don’t Let Him Know”
In Transit
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In Transit

I could have called it transformation instead of transitioning. But it became clear to me that transitioning does not necessarily imply a caterpillar-butterfly story but that it means a gradual acceptance of the self (and the self is ever-transitioning); of being comfortable in your own skin (even if it means shedding skin); of perfecting your act (even if it means learning a few new things).
By Rishit Wishit
September 17, 2018
In Transit
Issue in Focus: Performance and Sexuality
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Issue in Focus: Performance and Sexuality

To think of sexuality as performative disrupts the need for stable categories and identities, instead suggesting that we all reinforce and disrupt normative formations as we attempt to inhabit the world in messy ways.
By Sneha Krishnan
September 4, 2018
Issue in Focus: Performance and Sexuality
Nanette: Of Universality and Difference
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Nanette: Of Universality and Difference

In Nanette, Hannah Gadsby’s hour-long Netflix special that transcends the very notions of stand-up comedy, forces of reclamation, protest, and rage culminate to form a darkly hilarious but heartbreaking diatribe against patriarchy, heteronormativity, violence and marginalisation.
By Anonymous
September 4, 2018
Nanette: Of Universality and Difference
The Absence of a Queer ‘Mother Tongue’
The Absence of a Queer ‘Mother Tongue’

Many queer Indians who converse largely in their respective regional languages find it difficult to put a name to their queer identity in their ‘mother tongue’.
By Anonymous
May 1, 2018
The Absence of a Queer ‘Mother Tongue’
Brahmins preferred: The Caste of Sexuality
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Brahmins preferred: The Caste of Sexuality

Advancing the most penetrative and succinct theory of caste, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar had this to say in 1916 when…
By Curated Content
October 16, 2017
Brahmins preferred: The Caste of Sexuality
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
A still from a 2010 film 'Just Another Love Story'. A middle-aged man dressed in brown kurta-pajama is bowing as if in courtsey to a woman who is wearing heavy jewellery. She is holding a glass of wine or water in one hand, and chinese fan in another. She is wearing a big red bindi, dark mehroon lipstick, and kajal.
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity

By Anonymous for Cake: A while back, when I was toying with the idea of coming out to my parents…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
Desexualising Disability
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Desexualising Disability

Two of my most favourite disability-related public awareness projects in recent years have been the American Able project and Undressing…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2014
Desexualising Disability
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