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From Sex Work Geographies to Intimate Cities: An Interview with Manjima Bhattacharjya SM Cards English
Manjima tells us about the shifting landscape of sex work, and its history!
Jun 28, 2022
Why AOI Started The Masturbation Shayari Contest
A behind-the-scenes peek into the mischievous history of challenging me-time stigma
May 06, 2025
#ThiraktaThursday- The AOI Philosophy of Dance
Bole toh why we jiggy, twist and twirl on Thursdays (and all days)
Apr 28, 2025
The Rasas of Intimacy: A Memoir
Intimate Rasas and the secret juice of life
Mar 31, 2025
Could I Have Been Misogynist Even Though I Was a Woman? Why?
Today, I feel to an utmost certainty that I am not pretty, and even slightly indulging in dressing up makes me feel like a fraud.
Jan 20, 2025
The Lesbian Postbox of New Delhi
How did lesbian women meet before the internet? Read the story of how queer women sent letters to a 1990s Indian lesbian collective to find friendship, community, and sexual identity – the analog way!
Dec 13, 2024
AOI’s Abortion Resources
A list of AOI posts that help in understanding your laws and rights, and also help you navigate this emotional journey with support from your community
Sep 28, 2024
Why Does Pleasure Matter?
Anne Philpott (Founder, The Pleasure Project) and Paromita Vohra (Founder, Agents of Ishq) discuss this in their joint editorial in the latest SRHM Journal on Sexual Pleasure
Aug 30, 2024
Unhooked and Unapologetic
How I found strength and liberation beyond bra expectations
Aug 19, 2024
When Noor Jahan fed Lata with her own hands between Wagah and Attari
When the two legends couldn’t cross the border to meet each other, they reunited in no-man’s land and shared a picnic filled with love, remembrance and friendship
Aug 14, 2024
Anarkali: a poem by Pragya
Anarkali aisi ki Salim chunwa de apne aap ko
Jun 26, 2024
The History of India’s First Protest Against Section 377
How Delhi-based ABVA started talking about the discrimination against the queer community and led India’s first protest against Section 377
Jun 19, 2024
Misogyny, terrorism, and incels- a history of the no-fap movement
Founded in 2011, the no-fap movement is now a full industry with influencers and rehab centres, lacking only in scientific data
May 31, 2024
The Manifesto Matrimonial That (Shoulda) Made History
Why be a bahu when you can be bahurupi?
Mar 22, 2024
How We Wrote The Famous Sex-Ed Book, Lal Kitaab, in 1980s India: An Interview With Indira Pancholi
"Shareer ki Jankaari" aka Indian feminist movement ki famous "Laal Kitaab" was co-created by Indira Pancholi and 75 rural women during a government-run health campaign. Read the story of how these women made a book for their own bodies, in their own language against all odds.
Mar 08, 2023
Finding Fatima Sheikh
The story of a woman who in the 1800s co-founded 18 schools for girls, fighting caste and gender prejudice at each step
Jan 10, 2024
‘Every month I’d be lying in the principal’s room, waiting to die’
Pavitra was told that experiencing period pain was to be expected, even when the pain she was experiencing was debilitating. Why did it take so long for someone to take her pain seriously, she wonders.
Nov 20, 2023
Pleasure Politics: Excerpts From The AOI Manifesto
Could pleasure politics include aspects of us that sometimes feel left out in sex positivity?
Nov 10, 2023
Why Are Most Contraceptives Only For Those Who Can Get Pregnant? The Gender Discrimination in Contraception
If there was a male birth control pill in the market, would you use it (or ask your partner to use it)?
Sep 26, 2023
Why Do We Talk About Histories of Ishq and Sexuality?
What do stories of Rukhmabai, Pillay, Lal Kitaab enable for us in the present?
Sep 15, 2023
The Agents of Ishq Approach to Sex-Ed
Yaniki why we talk about sex the way we do!
Sep 01, 2023
How the Phule's Home Became A Space Where Widows Were Safe from Sexual Exploitation
This International Widows’ Day, we ask why society seeks control of women’s lives (even today), by curbing their access to pleasure.
Jun 23, 2023
Why did 13000 sugarcane cutters in Maharashtra 'choose' to have thier uterus removed? A History of Hysterectomy in India
A brief history of women's reproductive health, sterilization and choice in modern India.
May 10, 2023
"Birth Control is the only Sovereign Specific" BR Ambedkar on Contraception, Women's Right to Choice, and Accepting Sexual Pleasure
Ambedkar's thoughts on Birth Control from his speech in 1938!
Apr 14, 2023
How We Wrote a Sex-Ed Book in 80's India: An Interview with Indira Pancholi
The story behind "Shareer ki Jankaari" and the women behind it!
Mar 07, 2023
Grown-Up Girls - A Series of Short Videos About Young Women & Adulthood In Collaboration With CREA SELF Academy
Jan 31, 2023
Aika To The Baika - A Music Video about Gender Based Violence In Collaboration With Majlis Law
Jan 31, 2023
The Political Power of Pleasure - An AOI Manifesto (Plain Text Version)
Jan 01, 1970
The Political Power of Pleasure - An AOI Manifesto
Jan 27, 2023
“Leisure is like an answer to oppression”: Interview with Surabhi Yadav
What happens when women let themselves be completely at rest? Read more to find out.
Jan 13, 2023
To End Violence Against Women, We Need To Talk About Pleasure! #16DaysOfActivism
Why #PleasurePolitics is necessary to take the conversation on gender-based violence forward!
Nov 25, 2022
From Sex Work Geographies to Intimate Cities: An Interview with Manjima Bhattacharjya
Manjima tells us about the shifting landscape of sex work, and its history!
Jun 28, 2022
Reckless In Love, Powerful In Sisterhood - Vijeta Kumar Interviews Asha Kowtal
Asha was General Secretary of All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) for eleven years
Jun 28, 2022
This Month at AOI - Who Is A #GrownAssWoman?
Mar 04, 2022
“Without Vulnerability There is No Revolution” – Bole Toh? The AOI Chhotu Essay!
Is #VulnerABILITY just a personal maamla or something more?
Jun 28, 2022
How to Muse a Man
Why are always men finding muse in women in books and films?
Feb 08, 2021
The Curious Case of Absent Serenading Heroines in My Life
Where to find those Bollywood heroines who serenade the hero?
Feb 03, 2021
Tamil films! Where’s The Single Ladies, The Soup Girls, The Un-settled Women?
What is Tamil cinema's relationship with messy, complicated, thriving Single Women?
Aug 17, 2020
‘Not because I have wisdom, but because I care’: An Interview with Suniti Namjoshi
Poet, fabulist, lesbian - She tells AOI about her journey as a writer, lover & person!
Jun 17, 2020
Personal Life aur Political Empowerment Linked Hai Kya?
The stories of these five women show us how they reimagined their adult lives
Apr 24, 2019
Watch These #GrownUpGirls Re-Define Adulthood
Seven young women talk about the sparkling futures they envision for themselves
Apr 30, 2019
Main Apni Sabse Favourite Hoon: Chronicles of an Instaspam Queen
What is it about being a woman on Instagram that is so joyous, so satisfying – and so annoying to men?
Apr 25, 2019
Quotes from The Courts About Women and the Right to Consent!
When courtrooms recognize women as individuals and their right to choose, the quotes are bound to be dhamakedar!
Mar 14, 2019
Know These 19th Century folks and Their Hatke Ideas on Marriage, Sex and Women?
Here's some people who stirred up the the debate on child marriage and women's rights!
Mar 09, 2019
This Month on AOI: What Kind of Woman Would You Like to Be?
We're finding new ways of thinking what it means to be a woman
Mar 01, 2019
Why are People Opposing the Surrogacy Bill?
Here’s a guide to help you out.
Jan 11, 2019
The Masculinity Detox Diet
Easy tips to cleanse your system of toxic masculinity.
Nov 22, 2018
If You're Unsure What POSH, LoSHA, ICC & Other Terms Are, This Is For You.
Some common terms being used in the #MeToo conversation, explained.
Oct 20, 2018
Changing the Conversation on Consent with A Nayi Emotional Bhasha
Have you seen Love in the Garden of Consent/Ishq ke Baagh mein Marzi hai Minimum yet?
Sep 02, 2018
IT’S TIME WE STOPPED LINKING ABORTION TO THE BAD SEX RATIO
If there is a connection between abortion and female infanticide it is this: the reasons for both are mostly intertwined with sexism.
Dec 28, 2017
NIGHTS FULL OF WOMEN
Women out at night, filling it up, in the pictures of Anushree Fadnavis
Aug 10, 2017
Hot Mama: Or How I Went from Comfortably Numb to Shape of You
May 13, 2017
15 years of Women Talking About Their Vaginas To The Public -- The Vagina Monologues in India Celebrates Happy Birthday
Apr 01, 2017
Her Lovely Naked Body
“It’s the curves of her body, the stillness in her eyes and the long, cascading hair that I find very beautiful.”
Dec 11, 2016
March on Women: In conversation with columnist Paromita Vohra, activist Trupti Desai - CNN IBN
Mar 12, 2016
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