Time

Editorial – Accessibility and Sexuality
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If you were the CEO of a company and your office were on the 40th floor of a building in…

By TARSHI
February 16, 2023
Editorial – Accessibility and Sexuality
Two Poems: ‘A room of one’s own’ & ‘Sunshine’
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You couldn’t begin to say the self Before someone helps you finish — Self-centred Self-serving Selfish
By Carol D'Souza
September 19, 2022
Two Poems: ‘A room of one’s own’ & ‘Sunshine’
Editorial – Movement and Sexuality
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This issue of In Plainspeak while inviting us to embrace the joys and pleasure in movement, also questions the ways in which movements are facilitated or obstructed, visibilised or invisibilised, and the spaces that we must envision to find freedom in/to movement.

By TARSHI
May 19, 2022
Editorial – Movement and Sexuality
Interview – Tishani Doshi
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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 – Tishani Doshi
Three Poems: ‘Untitled’, ‘Alchemy’ & ‘Third date’
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He said ‘tender’ today/in such a way/I thought/I’d definitely like him saying/dirty things to me

By Carol D'Souza
February 1, 2022
Three Poems: ‘Untitled’, ‘Alchemy’ & ‘Third date’
Editorial: Time and Sexuality
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Take Time. Add Sexuality to it. How does it move? In a straight line, in circles, or does it zig…

By TARSHI
November 15, 2017
Editorial: Time and Sexuality
FILMS OF DESIRE/BODIES OF DESIRE
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The Church says: the body is a sin Science says: the body is a machine Advertising says: the body is…

By Geetanjali Misra
November 15, 2017
FILMS OF DESIRE/BODIES OF DESIRE
Nostalgia, Love and Desire: A Personal Narrative
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I met Benjamin on a hot summer day in 20xx. I was still young, single, and blissfully unaware of the…

By Curated Content
November 15, 2017
Nostalgia, Love and Desire: A Personal Narrative