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Issue In Focus: Challenging Neo-liberal ‘Equality’ in Consent
A brown woman in a blue top standing amongst a crowd raises a placard that reads in black on a white background, "Keep sex sexy - consent."
Issue In Focus: Challenging Neo-liberal ‘Equality’ in Consent

In an ideal world, this article would read at Tweet-length: “Enthusiastic sexual consent is sexy, and necessary for negotiating unequal…
By Kristin Francoeur
November 1, 2015
Issue In Focus: Challenging Neo-liberal ‘Equality’ in Consent
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
November 1, 2015
Interview: Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani on Sexuality and Social Movements in Latin America
On Feminism, Sexuality and Disability
1857 painting. Eight women showing personifications of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotomania and paralysis in a garden of a hospice facility in Paris.
On Feminism, Sexuality and Disability

  Bula was not happy at being offered a bath and fresh clothes. Food, she would gladly take – but…
By Gunjan Chandak Khemka
November 1, 2015
On Feminism, Sexuality and Disability
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream
Black and white photo of two young women speaking on a stage, reading out from the sheets of paper in their hands. One wears a saree, and has curly hair left open. The other wears a top, and has her hair open falling till her chest. She holds a rectangle-shaped structure in front of her face through which she sees across.
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream

One gets introduced to feminism through various modes: through books, through university courses, through parents and sometimes one does not…
By Jasmine George
November 1, 2015
On Realising a Young Feminist Dream
Of Socks and Sexuality
An anti-suffragette cartoon. A man washing laundry. On the wall, a board reads, "Everybody works but mother: she's a suffragette".
Of Socks and Sexuality

I grew up with a book cupboard where Paul Gallico’s Love of Seven Dolls rubbed shoulders with Germain Greer’s The…
By Shikha Aleya
November 1, 2015
Of Socks and Sexuality
The Editorial: Food, Drink and Sexuality
Various non-veg food items printed on a page of a book.
The Editorial: Food, Drink and Sexuality

“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.” ― Salvador Dalí A Google search with the keywords “food sexuality India”…
By TARSHI
October 15, 2015
The Editorial: Food, Drink and Sexuality
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men
Screenshot of a YouTube page. The video still shows a husband sitting at a dining table. His wife stands nearby, talking to him, pointing to a mixer kept on the table.
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men

Bakasura Chicken Tikka Roll. 100% Wholesome. Made for Real Men. In the home delivery menu card of a local restaurant,…
By Shikha Aleya
October 1, 2015
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men
Review: East Side Sushi (2015)
Sushi on a white plate.
Review: East Side Sushi (2015)

Time: 1hr 47min In English, Spanish and Japanese, with English subtitles “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if…
By Kristin Francoeur
October 1, 2015
Review: East Side Sushi (2015)
The Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda and Sexuality
Painting of several buses or vans moving down a road, leaving behind people lying on the road.
The Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda and Sexuality

“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.” ― Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work Development…
By TARSHI
September 15, 2015
The Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda and Sexuality
Why the Absence of Safe Abortion in the Post-2015 SDGs Matters
Infographic titled, "Banning abortions endangers women's health." Other data given: "222 million women in the developing world have an unmet need for modern contraception"; "47,000 women die yearly...millions more are injured"; "86% abortions take place in the developing world where most abortion laws are highly restrictive."
Why the Absence of Safe Abortion in the Post-2015 SDGs Matters

The eight UN Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) have been rightly criticised because they were too narrow, failed to address the…
By Kristin Francoeur
September 1, 2015
Why the Absence of Safe Abortion in the Post-2015 SDGs Matters
Because ‘Sex-ed’ Classes Taught Us Nothing, And Porn Is Only ‘Entertainment’
A woman reading a very small and thin book.
Because ‘Sex-ed’ Classes Taught Us Nothing, And Porn Is Only ‘Entertainment’

By Kirrat Sachdeva This post is part of TARSHI’s #TalkSexuality campaign on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in collaboration with Youth Ki Awaaz. Talking about the need…
By Curated Content
August 31, 2015
Because ‘Sex-ed’ Classes Taught Us Nothing, And Porn Is Only ‘Entertainment’
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might Have the Wish, I Wish Tonight
Names of several Indian cities are typed all over in grey or black on a white background. Kochi, Dehradun, Jaipur, Cuttak, etc.
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might Have the Wish, I Wish Tonight

While we were researching women’s access to public space in Mumbai under the aegis of the Gender and Space Project,…
By Shilpa Phadke
August 15, 2015
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might Have the Wish, I Wish Tonight
“DON’T LET YOUR FOOT SLIP!” : MESSAGES ON ‘APPROPRIATE’ FEMININITY BY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN MUMBAI
Comic panel. A school teacher offering an apple to a girl and a boy student, while both of them look at it skeptically.
“DON’T LET YOUR FOOT SLIP!” : MESSAGES ON ‘APPROPRIATE’ FEMININITY BY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN MUMBAI

“In Hindi, though there is a word for rape (balaatkaar), it is rarely used by women. Instead they say izzat…
By Juhi Sidharth
August 15, 2015
“DON’T LET YOUR FOOT SLIP!” : MESSAGES ON ‘APPROPRIATE’ FEMININITY BY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN MUMBAI
Brushstrokes: Word’s Worth
A poster that reads, "Female condom is a polyurethane sheath that has a flexible ring at both ends. It is approximately 3 inches wide and 7 inches long. Its efficacy is known to be around 79-95%. It reduces the risk of STI and HIV transmission." In the background is an image of a dictionary and a condom with a female face."
Brushstrokes: Word’s Worth

[slideshow_deploy id=’6411′] In a culture where sex is depicted all over media messaging, it’s funny how the word itself is…
By Curated Content
August 15, 2015
Brushstrokes: Word’s Worth
Open Letter to Parents-Who-Are-Katti-With-The-Daughter-Mumbai-Police-Illegally-Harassed
Some ten policemen in uniforms walking through a jungle in a queue.
Open Letter to Parents-Who-Are-Katti-With-The-Daughter-Mumbai-Police-Illegally-Harassed

Dear Parents-of-the-Young-Woman-Picked-Up-By-Moral-Mumbai-Police, I write this as a citizen, outraged by the actions of the Mumbai Police in picking up consenting…
By Shilpa Phadke
August 11, 2015
Open Letter to Parents-Who-Are-Katti-With-The-Daughter-Mumbai-Police-Illegally-Harassed
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