Sexuality
The contest of gendered spaces at home
So, even though “home” is supposed to be a place of comfort – a personal space which should allow us to express our gender, sexuality and bodies freely – this notion of home stands defeated in reality, where there are certain unsaid rules which govern the distribution and use of space.
March 5, 2018
Video Page: GHAR – Gay Housing Assistance Resource
Nineteen years ago, Sachin Jain founded G.H.A.R, the Gay Housing Assistance Resource, a revolutionary project which helps LGBT people find safe and friendly housing.
By Curated Content
March 5, 2018
Brushstrokes: Inside Singapore’s Only Shelter For Homeless Transgender Women
June and her late sister Irene (who was also transgender) took it upon themselves to “to give and do more for others”, and together they began the first shelter for homeless transwomen in Singapore.
By Curated Content
Homes away from home – My experiences with the BDSM community
Home is usually the place where we begin exploring all aspects of life. In India, one area that is often…
By Asmi
Editorial: Friendship and Sexuality
The statement “We are just friends”, does it make you wonder? Just friends? As in – merely friends? As in…
By TARSHI
February 15, 2018
‘Couldn’t We Just Be Friends?’
One of the most subtly hurtful and quietly damning of all remarks, perhaps quietly and sweetly delivered on the doorstep…
By Curated Content
February 15, 2018
Slut Shaming and The Friend Zone: Two Sides of The Objectification Coin
“’Slut’ attacks a woman’s right to say yes. ‘Friend zone’ attacks a woman’s right to say no. And ‘bitch’ attacks her…
By Feminism in India
February 15, 2018
Friendship, Sexuality and the Auden Group
Friendship has always remained a thinly coded term for same-sex love within queer discourses, and early writings in favour of…
By Kaustav Bakshi
February 15, 2018
The Love Laws: Lessons from Shah Rukh Khan and Others
“Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how…
By Shweta Krishnan
February 1, 2018
Video Page: Mere Saathi
Saathi IIT Bombay, an LGBTQ resource group of students and staff at IIT Bombay welcomed new entrants in 2015 with…
By Curated Content
February 1, 2018
Interview: Sridhar Rangayan
In this Issue of In Plainspeak, we speak to Sridhar Rangayan about dimensions of friendship and sexuality. Sridhar is an…
By Shikha Aleya
February 1, 2018
Friendships Between Women: Norms, Intimacies and Imaginations
It has troubled me for a long time now that there are hardly any Bollywood block busters that focus on…
By Shruti Arora
February 1, 2018
The Sisterhood of Sexuality
“Order me one too,” a friend said as I secretly purchased a vibrator online during a class so boring, I…
By Aakriti
February 1, 2018
Brushstrokes: Birth Control Tales
Framed as fun conversations between friends, a series of comic strips on different birth control methods –implants, intrauterine devices, injectable, and pill,…
By Curated Content
February 1, 2018
ILLEGALLY ADULT: THE STRANGE CASE OF ALISHA MAJOR
She was 17 when she was rescued from a dance bar. Now she’s 18 and she wants to go back. As an adult. And…
By Bishakha Datta
January 2, 2018