{"id":26515,"date":"2024-03-18T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=26515"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:27:53","slug":"quick-bytes-with-vikramjeet-sinha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/quick-bytes-with-vikramjeet-sinha\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Bytes with Vikramjeet Sinha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At <em>In Plainspeak<\/em>, we\u2019re always brainstorming about ways to engage with the great diversity you represent as readers, and to connect you to each other! This year, we\u2019ve planned to add a short, almost micro feature, to our regular crop of articles. We call it, quite simply: <strong>Quick Bytes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick Bytes is based on short responses to cue questions that we ask those who agree to participate in this micro feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vikramjeet Sinha gives us our first Quick Bytes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vikram says<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One line to <strong>describe me<\/strong>: I am a cultural cartographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>word Sexuality<\/strong> brings to mind: Self-expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I <strong>connect<\/strong> Entertainment and Sexuality in these ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the co-opting of sexuality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the possibility of pushback against the mainstream<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a sanitised approach towards sexuality, and at the same time it&#8217;s also worn out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a certain Imagination being built by a certain class, caste, culture and this influences our imagination and our symbolic reality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Self- affirming and joyful<\/strong> in this context for me: I like queer dramas because there is a sense of belonging to the larger culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something to think about, as a <strong>last word<\/strong>: To explore eros, which is beyond sexuality \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Put together by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/author\/shikha-aleya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shikha Aleya<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><br><em>Cover Image: Photo courtesy of Vikramjeet Sinha.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Bytes is based on short responses to cue questions that we ask those who agree to participate in this micro feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":26520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4358,4399],"tags":[4438,4437,1249,26,4434,4435,25,4436],"class_list":{"0":"post-26515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment-and-sexuality","8":"category-quick-bytes","9":"tag-boat","10":"tag-building-on-art-therapy","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gender","13":"tag-microfeature","14":"tag-quick-bytes","15":"tag-sexualities","16":"tag-vikramjeet-sinha"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515","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\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26515"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26548,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515\/revisions\/26548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}