{"id":9085,"date":"2016-06-24T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T05:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=9085"},"modified":"2018-08-22T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T10:49:03","slug":"editorial-work-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/editorial-work-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Editorial: Work and Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sexuality can be said to influence and be influenced by every aspect of our lives. Talking about sexuality, however, is widely tabooed, especially at the workplace. Anything that evinces sexuality is at once mired in controversy \u2013 from clothing choices (of women, especially) to sexual harassment cases, from gender role-challenging career choices to sex work. Why is anything to do with sexuality seen as taking away the gravitas of work? (So much so that sex work isn\u2019t even recognised<\/a> as work!) This month\u2019s articles on Work and Sexuality tackle the need to redefine general mores of professionalism, and, from the prism of sexuality, reframe what constitutes work.<\/p>\n

The Issue in Focus for the month has Shikha Aleya venturing to understand how gender roles function in work<\/a> in contemporary times. In her Review, Niyati Dave introduces us to Mierle Laderman Ukeles\u2019 defiant art on maintenance work<\/a>, work that is mostly gendered and disregarded.<\/p>\n

Brushtrokes features glimpses into the lives<\/a> of diverse women at diverse workplaces from across the world. As for the Video Page of the month, we\u2019re surprised this brilliant video<\/a> about a typical middle-class urban woman hasn\u2019t got the recognition it deserves.<\/p>\n

In her I-Column piece, Smriti Dhingra narrates a sweet love story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Hindi section has Reena Khatoon\u2019s take on workplace romances<\/a>, and an excerpt<\/a> from Partners for Law in Development\u2019s book on sexual harassment at the workplace, Karyasthal Par Mahilaon Ka Yaun Utpeedan<\/em> (2015).<\/p>\n

The Corner for the month is The Life of Science<\/a><\/em>, a blog on Indian women who work in science.<\/p>\n

The mid-month issue is led by Bishakha Datta\u2019s Voices article on the strange case of Alisha Major<\/a>, the 18-year-old bar dancer in Mumbai. Shaifali Agrawal interviews Rath Wang \u2013\u00a0founding member of Nijiro Diversity,\u00a0Japan\u2019s first non-profit organisation promoting LGBT equality in the workplace\u00a0\u2013\u00a0on LGBT inclusiveness at workplaces in Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Blog Roll has an interesting medley of articles. Linguistics academic Deborah Tannen writes about how everything women do tells a story about them<\/a> while men can have the privilege of choosing to be invisible. Diksha Madhok probes into what happened to the promising young women<\/a> who graduated from the IITs in the \u201990s. \u201cThe maternal wall is as unyielding as the glass ceiling,\u201d she finds. Alejandra Sard\u00e1 observes how cis feminists who have never\u00a0engaged in sex work have a lot to learn from travestis and\u00a0trans women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Do you like reading our magazine? If yes, we\u2019d love to know; and if not, we\u2019d appreciate knowing what we need to do to improve. So please take this quick and easy survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Have you contributed your writing or art to our magazine? We’d like to hear about your experience with that<\/a>\u00a0as well!<\/p>\n

More from us in July. Next month\u2019s theme is Science and Sexuality. Do send in your contributions.<\/p>\n

Till then, happy reading!<\/p>\n

The TARSHI Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sexuality can be said to influence and be influenced by every aspect of our lives. Talking about sexuality, however, is widely tabooed, especially at the workplace. Anything that evinces sexuality is at once mired in controversy \u2013 from clothing choices (of women, especially) to sexual harassment cases, from gender role-challenging career choices to sex work. Why is anything to do with sexuality seen as taking away the gravitas of work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,65,688],"tags":[25,617],"class_list":{"0":"post-9085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-editorial","9":"category-work-and-sexuality","10":"tag-sexualities","11":"tag-work"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9085","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=9085"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14925,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9085\/revisions\/14925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}