We are one year old! Yes, In Plainspeak has been publishing articles from around the Global South, especially India and the South and South East Asia region for a year now.<\/p>\n
In our first anniversary issue and to commemorate Human Rights Day we bring back some articles on sexuality and rights that were published over the year…<\/p>\n
The Issue in Focus section has three articles: Oishik Sircar\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Desire against Desire\u2019<\/a>\u00a0featured in the Law and Sexuality issue, emphasises the role played by law in the development of nuanced thinking around sexuality.\u00a0\u2018Sexual Rights<\/a>\u2019 featured in the issue of the same name and written by Radhika Chandiramani highlights why sexual rights matter. As we head into 2015 and discussions on the post-2015 agenda, we also feature Shweta Krishnan\u2019s article, \u2018Beyond the Simple Formulas<\/a>\u2019 on Family Planning and sexual rights, featured originally in the issue on Women.<\/p>\n In the interview section read Payoshini Mitra\u2019s<\/a> experience working as a researcher and activist in the area of Gender Issues in Sports, originally featured in the Sports and Sexuality issue,and watch\u00a0Pramada Menon<\/a> talk about her inspiring work and life as well as her stand up performance \u2018Fat, Feminist and Free\u2019 <\/a>in her interview from the issue on Body Image.<\/p>\n Talking about body image we also have from the same issue the I-column written by Ekta Oza<\/a> about being the \u2018wrong size\u2019,and a personal account from Malini Chib<\/a> who has written about sex, love and relationships for a woman living with disabilities published in the \u2018Disability and Sexuality\u2019 issue.<\/p>\n We revisit Bishakha Datta\u2019s review of the film \u2018Blue is the Warmest Color\u2019<\/a> from the issue on Women and Neha Naqvi\u2019s review of the exhibit \u2018Bound to be Free<\/a>\u2019 featured in the Queer Rights issue.<\/p>\n The Voices section relooks at the articles \u2018Providing sexual services to persons with disabilities\u2019 <\/a>by Rachael Wotton, featured in the Disability and Sexuality issue, the\u00a0Dove campaign<\/a> by Parigya Sharma featured in the Body Image issue, and Sheema Kirmani\u2019s interview<\/a>\u00a0 featured in the Art and Activism issue.<\/p>\n Brushstrokes features works of\u00a0Shilo Suleman as seen in\u2018The Fearless Campaign\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0The Video section has the short film\u00a0\u2018Lost and Found<\/a>\u2019 by Shrenik featured in the Queer Rights issue. Gazal\u2019s interview<\/a> from the same issue, \u2018Women we are proud of\u2019<\/a>\u00a0from the issue on Women and an article on consent <\/a>from the Consent and Violence issue are in the Hindi section.<\/p>\n Also, please take a look at the content for the popular posts at our different corners: FAQs, <\/a>Innovations<\/a> as well as the\u00a0Food corners<\/a>.\u00a0TARSHI’s corner<\/a> features a new Manual on Integrated Counselling which is a joint effort of TARSHI and IPPF SARO. We also have the results of a blog survey in TARSHI’s corner this time – thank you to those of you who took the time to respond to the survey last month!<\/p>\n As the year is coming to a close, and we look back and ahead, let\u2019s also begin to think about what we have done this year and what we want to do differently in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are one year old! 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