sexual harassment

Tools of Controlling Mobility
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I consider my daily travel a theatre project, far from the real me: I cover myself from head to toe and wear sunglasses double the size of my face. Why? Because most of the male passengers look at all the women in the compartment as if this is something they get for free along with their ticket.

By Swapna Vasudevan Thampi
October 17, 2016
Tools of Controlling Mobility
Queer Heterosexual, Heterosexual Queer: Two Tales of Queer Love 100 Years Apart
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The lovers enact many recognizable hetero-normative romantic tropes – the wronged petulant woman pacified via kisses and caresses, the woman too tired for sex who then tries to placate the sulking male lover.

By Mamatha Karollil
December 1, 2020
Queer Heterosexual, Heterosexual Queer: Two Tales of Queer Love 100 Years Apart
Claiming One’s Space After False Sexual Harassment Allegations
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Those who are rendered vulnerable due to their gender or sexuality, particularly those who are economically and socially disadvantaged (or less powerful) and lack the agency to speak up for themselves, are more prone to allegations, social ostracism and marginalization.

By Andy Stephen Silveira
April 5, 2021
Claiming One’s Space After False Sexual Harassment Allegations
Editorial: Vulnerability and Sexuality
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Vulnerability – is it a condition we find ourselves in? A state of being we choose? Let’s keep it very simple: it depends on the approach we take to defining it. In the former approach, we are ‘done to’, while in the latter we are consciously ‘doing’.

By TARSHI
April 19, 2021
Editorial: Vulnerability and Sexuality
Editorial: Data and Sexuality
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While we are struggling with the vicissitudes brought on by the pandemic we are also forced to spend more time online, to look for resources in terms of health care or caregivers, to reach out to people and build a communities of care, to take a break, or to try and hook-up online for a while.

By TARSHI
May 15, 2021
Editorial: Data and Sexuality
Interview – Srila Roy
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“Questions of difference should not be a cause for despair. There are examples from history and our own lives that show how we can connect across difference and stand in solidarity with one another…”

By Shikha Aleya
December 12, 2022
Interview – Srila Roy