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Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
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Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality

100 issues, 8 years! Thank you, dear readers and contributors! As we planned for this issue to put on our…
By TARSHI
March 15, 2022
Editorial – Celebrating Sexuality
Editorial – Anthology Jan 2026
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Editorial – Anthology Jan 2026

To remind us of what spaces that are safe, inclusive and self-affirming for each person could look like, we have curated a selection of articles from the last five years of In Plainspeak for this anthology – our gift to wish you a wonderful 2026.

By TARSHI
January 16, 2026
Editorial – Anthology Jan 2026
Editorial – Workplaces and Sexuality
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Editorial – Workplaces and Sexuality

Sexuality and the workplace are closely related, and a safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental human right.
By TARSHI
September 18, 2024
Editorial – Workplaces and Sexuality
Editorial – The Pandemic and Sexuality
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Editorial – The Pandemic and Sexuality

This month’s offering of articles, poems and fiction is an eclectic mix that (mostly) reflects what was borne out of the pandemic, and its impact on sexuality, intimacy, relationships, and more.
By TARSHI
May 16, 2024
Editorial – The Pandemic and Sexuality
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
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Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality

A space can make us feel constricted or liberated, and sometimes even both at the same and at varying times. The combination of spaces that we may be occupying in the moment, as well as those we have in the past, predisposes us to act, feel and experience our sexuality in different ways.
By TARSHI
April 18, 2022
Editorial – Spaces and Sexuality
Editorial – Sexuality and SISA Spaces
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Editorial – Sexuality and SISA Spaces

We envision SISA spaces as non-judgmental, inclusive, rights-based and affirming spaces wherein people’s sexuality, their identities, wellbeing, choices, desires and pleasure are respected.
By TARSHI
January 3, 2022
Editorial – Sexuality and SISA Spaces
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
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Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom

If we are to reimagine coupledom and sexuality, we need to expand and challenge our ideas about togetherness, romance, love, intimacy, desire, sex, attachment, and so on.

By TARSHI
February 15, 2022
Editorial – Sexuality and Coupledom
Editorial – Queering Sexuality
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Editorial – Queering Sexuality

Queering transcends the confines of symmetry and is a way of looking, of breaking established meaning, of making new meaning, and of being and becoming that offers us the promise of fluidity, flux and freedom. 
By TARSHI
December 12, 2022
Editorial – Queering Sexuality
Editorial – Queering as a Way of Life
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Editorial – Queering as a Way of Life

Queering is not about being queer but about doing queer – about going beyond binaries of gender and sexuality, questioning accepted perspectives, and challenging and upending normative ways of being in the world.
By TARSHI
July 22, 2024
Editorial – Queering as a Way of Life
Editorial – Parents, Teachers, and CSE
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Editorial – Parents, Teachers, and CSE

Each time a child or adolescent asks a question that may be (even indirectly) related to sexuality, many parents and teachers get squirmy and nervous. This may be because they themselves do not have the information required, but in most cases, it has more to do with the ‘hush-hush’ that surrounds sexuality.
By TARSHI
December 18, 2024
Editorial – Parents, Teachers, and CSE
Editorial – Language and Sexuality
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Editorial – Language and Sexuality

The glorious heights of self-actualisation to which some words beckon us, the promises lying within others, it’s all language.
By TARSHI
July 16, 2025
Editorial – Language and Sexuality
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality
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Editorial – Gender and Sexuality

Gender and sexuality are like constituent parts of a jigsaw puzzle that keeps morphing in such a way that nothing ever ‘fits’ for long, and the game begins anew each time.
By TARSHI
November 19, 2024
Editorial – Gender and Sexuality
Editorial – Entertainment and Sexuality
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Editorial – Entertainment and Sexuality

So much power and so much reach in the case of entertainment can be used as a force for good or for its opposite.
By TARSHI
March 18, 2024
Editorial – Entertainment and Sexuality
Editorial – Consent and Sexuality
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Editorial – Consent and Sexuality

Looking down upon the earth from many miles up in the sky, the divisions between land masses and water bodies…
By TARSHI
March 17, 2025
Editorial – Consent and Sexuality
Editorial – Anthology Issue
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Editorial – Anthology Issue

Happy New Year! We have curated this anthology to remind you and ourselves of the gift and wonder of possibilities.

By TARSHI
January 3, 2023
Editorial – Anthology Issue
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