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Happily Ever After: Review of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson in Good Luck To You, Leo Grande - a movie about an older woman's sexual exploration

This film reminds us of the power of connections in finding pleasure, joy, confidence and healing.

By ElsaMarie D'Silva

October 17, 2022

Happily Ever After: Review of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Of Identity and Belongings: The Gatekeeping within Queer Spaces

No matter how much I wanted to be a part of the rainbow, it felt like the rainbow wanted no part of me. It was an elite space for the exuberant über cool gays, with access, privilege and a vocabulary filled with jargon. I couldn’t even decide if I was ‘gay enough’, let alone deconstruct my experiences, having being brought up in a heteronormative culture.

By Shubhangi

September 1, 2022

Of Identity and Belongings: The Gatekeeping within Queer Spaces

Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces

A photo of heterosexual couple sitting cross-legged on a rampart beside the sea. The man is wearing a blue shirt and there are shopping bags beside him. Beside him, only the mid-length hair of the woman can be seen. In the horizon is the city skyline of Mumbai with skyscrapers and other buildings at golden hour.

While sex workers face repeated harassment by the police, many young couples face threats in a one-off incident if the police finds them with their partner/lover. They may face police surveillance of expressions of intimacy and affection in public.

By Shruti Arora

April 1, 2022

Public Sex and the Police in Urban Spaces

ISSUE IN FOCUS: LEAVING HOME AND RECLAIMING SELF

As I sit to write this piece, somehow the song Aap Ki Yaad Aati Rahi Raat Bhar from the 1978…

By Chayanika Shah

January 2, 2018

ISSUE IN FOCUS: LEAVING HOME AND RECLAIMING SELF

“How different it would be if for a moment health care providers could feel what we feel when we go to a hospital and are challenged…”

And so, the women sex workers of RedTraSex (Network of Women Sex Workers from Latin America and the Caribbean) developed Ponte en Nuestros Zapatos (re-edited 2015). Now, reaching out to a wider community, is the brand new English version Walk in our Shoes: Good Practices Guide for Health Care Staff (2016, translated by Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani). Yes, it is so brand new that it is not up on their website as yet, though we have permission to use it here.

By RedTraSex

April 18, 2016

Walk in Our Shoes