Sexuality
November 17, 2025
Interview – Tishani Doshi
I’ve essentially thought of movement as a kind of freedom, but one that has the capacity to destabilise you in some way. My most creative moments are when I’m not moving, when I am in fact rooted and still.
By Shikha Aleya
May 3, 2022
Interview – Shylashri Shankar
So why do we have to have fixed notions of gender roles and food?
By Shikha Aleya
July 5, 2023
Interview – Sadam Hanjabam
When we are talking about the theme of embracing equity we can see sports as a neutral space that has the potential to be a space where everyone can connect, together, without language, and without the domination of any community over another.
By Shikha Aleya
April 6, 2023
Interview – Rumi Harish
My assertion of my gender was not because of masculinity, it was because of the feminism which I practised – and that gave me this chance to come back to what I was. To assert what I was and to assert what I am.
By Shikha Aleya
May 19, 2025
Interview – Ritambhara Mehta
Ritambhara Mehta is with Nazariya, a Delhi-based queer feminist resource group. Nazariya works on issues of gender and sexuality with a focus on issues of queer women and trans* persons.
By Shikha Aleya
February 17, 2020
Interview – Raghavi S
Language is one of the most intimate things we share with one another, more than bodies, more than time.
By Shikha Aleya
July 16, 2025
Interview – Radhika Vaz
I think we are still in a trap of a heteronormative, youth biased, light skin biased, sizeist, ableist culture and until we consciously snap out of it we are throwing a cloak over a human being’s ability to really find what their sexuality even looks like.
By Shikha Aleya
May 4, 2023
Interview – Radhika Vaz
I think we are still in a trap of a heteronormative, youth biased, light skin biased, sizeist, ableist culture and until we consciously snap out of it we are throwing a cloak over a human being’s ability to really find what their sexuality even looks like.
By Shikha Aleya
January 13, 2025
Interview – Poornima Sukumar
We advocate the idea of reclaiming spaces in society by creating large wall-mural projects to raise awareness and to create a voice for the community. We are now finding more innovative ways to engage the community to come out in public spaces, also using the Internet and social media, to feel confident, safe and a sense of belonging.
By Shikha Aleya
August 14, 2020
Interview – Padmini Ray Murray
What we lack are digital spaces and infrastructures that are informed by the needs of their end users, that prioritise safety, comfort, joy and care.
By Shikha Aleya
November 20, 2023
Interview – Kiran Bhat
Kiran Bhat is an author and polyglot who speaks 12 languages, and has written in English, Kannada, Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin. His recently published book, We Of the Forsaken World, has been described as “the tales of not just sixteen strangers, but many different lives, who live on this planet, at every second, everywhere”.
By Shikha Aleya
March 2, 2020
Interview – Kiran Bhat
So I am realising now that for me the space of borderlessness applies to everything. It applies to the physical and topographical border as it does to the borders we create between gender and their expressions. I think I would like to argue for a truly borderless understanding of the world.
By Shikha Aleya
March 17, 2023
Interview – Kalpana Viswanath
Dr. Kalpana Viswanath, researcher, and urban safety and gender rights activist, shares her thoughts on issues of Public Safety and Sexuality with In Plainspeak. Co-founder and CEO of SafetiPin, a social enterprise that uses data and technology to build safer, more inclusive and smart cities, Kalpana has led large gender rights projects globally.
By Shikha Aleya
April 1, 2019
Interview – Kallol Datta
Clothes for me are our first line of defence. They are also our first act of providing relief.
By Shikha Aleya
September 20, 2023