Happy New Year! May we all have more to celebrate, enjoy and be happy about!<\/p>\n
We bring you this anniversary issue of In Plainspeak<\/em> with a selection of articles from older issues.<\/p>\n As we walk into a new year, many of us reflect on the journeys, both actual and metaphorical, that we have made in our lives. In the Issue in Focus<\/a>, Chayanika Shah reminds us of the many journeys people are forced to make because they do not fit the norm; they must leave home, often at great cost and danger, to live their own lives. Social rules and expectations bog us all down. In the Interview<\/a>, Nivedita Menon talks about feminism and gender and encourages us to question how we use various terms and position them, including the term \u201cwoman\u201d.<\/p>\n In the Voices section Bishakha Datta<\/a> interrogates art, sexiness, obscenity and many other concepts through a rather curious case, Jhilmil Breckeridge<\/a> expounds on the joys of masturbation for women, teenaged Zoya Achanta<\/a> wonders what it would be like to grow up queer, Alankaar Sharma<\/a> explains how comprehensive sexuality education can prevent sexual abuse and Almas Shamim brings us a beautiful poem<\/a>. In the Review section Shohini Ghosh\u2019s film Tales of the Night Fairies<\/a><\/em> is reviewed by Moulshri Mohan. The I column has Shilpa Phadke telling us about the perils and pleasures of feminist mothering and Shikha Aleya<\/a> reflecting on how fiction made her more \u2018real\u2019. Brushstrokes <\/a>carries delightful illustrations by Caroline Kee. Video page has Nina Paley\u2019s evergreen Sita Sings the Blues<\/a><\/em>. In Hindi we have two translations: one is about a boy coming out <\/a>and the other is about an \u2018odd couple<\/a>\u2019. The Corners carry fun stuff for you to discover. A pretty eclectic selection and one that we hope you will enjoy.<\/p>\n A line in Almas Shamim\u2019s poem says, \u201cLove can kiss wrinkles, scars and sagging breasts.\u201d May love kiss you all through 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy New Year! May we all have more to celebrate, enjoy and be happy about! We bring you this anniversary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1484,1,65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anniversary-issue-january-2018","8":"category-categories","9":"category-editorial"},"menu_order":823,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12881"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12902,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions\/12902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}