Sexuality
I only ever read your letters
to learn what patterns to avoid
in future relationships.
I knew that I was gay since time knows when. The society made me know. Be it my friend’s snarky…
What is fiction? Is it born of reality? Or does it birth reality, reflecting it back at me until I see the things I do not see? Until I find the person that is me? Until I dance my horse dance under moon, under stars, in a room full of people who like horse dancing just as much as they like the swirly skirt and the pot-bellied person doing the Bhangra.
Her eyes are open now, she looks at him. There is sadness there. “What my love? What happened?” he asks….
Sex robots never have a headache or expect you to contribute to the housekeeping.
A humanitarian crisis situation has different impacts at the individual and community level and is also differently experienced by different…
Growing up is a tedious task in our society because of the institutionalised practices, societal constructs and boxed identities and expressions that we are expected to adhere to. Anything beyond these implies harm, danger, and deviance.
Every part of life, the world too, is storied. Stories are the thread that hold histories and truths together. Stories are at the core of myth-making. Everything that we know is part of multiple crisscrossing relational storylines that we raise and those that we have no power in raising.
Online dating websites and apps are one of those technological innovations that people did not think would ever do well….
Female sexuality isn’t in the closet any more. If you look at the spate of films that have been released in the past couple of years, they seem to tell us that women mouth expletives, watch porn and don’t mind talking about orgasms—things taken for granted when it comes to men.
From not being allowed to work to having their earnings exploited, many women confront economic abuse, a recognised form of domestic abuse.
The only thing this language achieves (and maybe it is also the goal), is to create enough panic so that women themselves police and restrict their own mobility and whereabouts, and keep themselves away from public spaces whenever possible.
For women like me, there is an enormous lack of options in addition to the market that relegates us to a corner of ‘plus-size brands’
I have dealt with having a non-masculine body since the time I was a teenager. I have questioned my sexuality and how it interacted with my non-masculine body.