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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
My Asexual Fantasy
We asked – What does intimacy mean to you? What’s a fantasy you’ve always had? What’s something you’d like to do with a date or partner? 8 ace people responded with their imaginations of desire and pleasure.
Oct 30, 2024
Genital Hygiene Ka Piddi Sa Primer
Pubic hair? Intimate hygiene products? What is the way to go?
Sep 08, 2024
Pleasure Matters: AOI, SRHM and TPP collaborate for a webinar
Join us for a discussion on why pleasure politics is essential in SRHR work
Aug 14, 2024
Boochies In Your Coochie
Yes, there can be lice in your pubic hair too. Here’s what you need to know about them
May 12, 2024
Male Actors Ke (Almost) Nude Bods - And Our Desire!
Ranveer Singh’s latest photoshoot is viral on the internet and everyone is here with their thoughts and thirst comments! But male celebrities in the (almost) nude and our desire to look at them is not a new 2022 thing!
Jul 22, 2022
Bind It!
A guide to chest binding from what to, to, how to use your binder
Mar 03, 2024
D se Disability, D se Desire
How do we expand the world to make room for all kinds of bodies and minds and loves and lives? Some awesome people with disabilities shared their stories with us. On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we are sharing them with you.
Dec 03, 2022
Are There Desi Books About Queer Women In Indian Languages?
We're bring you recommendations of narratives that talk about women loving women in desi languages other than English. All curated for your reading pleasure!
Apr 28, 2023
My bisexual panic
Of course, there were some guys I thought looked good. Who’d turn away from Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds? But would I date a guy if I could?
Feb 05, 2024
Me, My M.I.L and My Abortion
Based on Ibis Reproductive Health's qualitative research with 43 medication abortion users in rural and urban India
Jan 15, 2024
I Thought It Was A Dream Date. But I Am Bipolar, So Was It Just A Dream?
This date wasn’t supposed to be a rebound, but still hit me in the face, and everywhere else
Dec 18, 2023
Dreams, Fears and Friendship: A Story about Abortion-and Love
A comic created by Agents of Ishq in collaboration with Ibis Reproductive Health, building on their research on self-managed abortions.
Aug 12, 2023
Iss compliment ko main kya naam doon?
Yes, I am Ms Something Else. I wish the men I met were too!
Oct 25, 2023
Thoda flirt bhi karo, dikra!
Out on a date with a person with disability? Our Guest Editor Abhishek Anicca shares the dos and don’ts to keep in mind!
Oct 23, 2023
Some Sundays
Over copious cups, I waited for a romance to brew, and found myself left with nothing but green tea!
Oct 20, 2023
Where Is A Sex Toy I Can Use?
Buying a sex toy can be a difficult process when you are a person with disabilities. These are the obstacles one faces:
Oct 18, 2023
Tinder And The Saga Of “Blind” Dates
I dipped my toes in the world of online dating with care and caution. But I got swept away anyway.
Oct 16, 2023
No Privacy With Disability? Here Are Some Hacks
This Sunday Sex-ed we bring masturbation privacy hacks: Disability Edition
Oct 15, 2023
Firdaus Kanga: The Man Who Wrote About Queerness, Disability And Desire In 90s India!
Today’s #HistoriesofIshq celebrates the Parsi man whose life and work allows us to imagine a limitless world
Dec 10, 2023
“Should I announce my disability?”
“Do I pick the venue?”
Dating tips and advice for disabled people, from disabled people
Nov 10, 2023
7 of My Favourite Works of Art
by Abhishek Anicca
Oct 08, 2023
How Much Of A Man Is A Disabled Man?
What does disability reveal about the idea of masculinity?
Oct 06, 2023
Erotic Poems For October
This month, our Tharki Tuesdays are blessed with erotic poems shared by Om
Oct 03, 2023
Juvenile Arthritis Meant That I Couldn’t Touch My Penis. Then, I Discovered Mindgasms
Naveen shares how he discovered the power of fantasy after being bedridden at the age of 13
Oct 02, 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
What The Hickey! The AOI Guide To Leaving That Lovely Love Bite
Giving a hickey is not about the biting. There’s technique and science in the recipe!
Jul 07, 2023
If Life is Box Full of Chocolate Boys!
#HappyChocolateDay to the men who smile, are vulnerable, and make our dils do a new type of dhak-dhak!
Jul 06, 2023
Maitri Karar: A Gujarati custom that allow queer relationships legitimacy
When polygamy was banned in 1956, the Maitri Karar was invented to allow men to support their mistresses. And then, queer couples used it to live together legally.
Jun 16, 2023
From Sapphic Seasides to Political Pyaar! A Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans History of Mumbai
Where did the LBT Mumbaikar go for politics, party and pyaar!
Sep 21, 2022
Can You Orgasm Without Sex or Touching Yourself? Yes! Yesss! Yesssss!
A mini-guide to hands-free orgasms!
May 21, 2023
Talking To My Daughter About Sex, And The Body, Changed Me As a Parent and a Person
I wanted to be the kind of parent who could respond honestly to my daughter's questions about sex.
May 14, 2023
Love was a stereotype. Friendship was radical. And then, I met her.
If witnessing a relationship slowly die out like a star collapsing into itself were a color, it would be tangerine.
Aug 05, 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
Why Does The LGBTQ+ Community Love Frogs?
World Wildlife Day pe ek investigation!
Mar 03, 2023
Happy Birthday to Mirza Ghalib, Woh Shayar Badnaam
Nov 23, 2022
Songs That Switched On Our Libido Lightbulbs: Sexy Saturday Songs
Nov 22, 2022
Pill Da Maamla Hai! Starring OBGYNji
Birth control pills, i-pill and abortion pills - difference kya hai?
Nov 06, 2022
Bishakha Dutta's Sexy Saturday Songs
Sep 29, 2022
Shikha Biswas's Sexy Saturday Songs
Sep 29, 2022
My Clients Celebrate Relationships With Me That They Can’t Even Mention Outside The Therapy Room: A Therapist’s Diary
A therapist wonders if we can relook how we approach 'problematic' relationships
Jul 14, 2022
Love Paranoia
After every rejection I ask, is it my disability?
Apr 01, 2022
The Many Journeys of an Old-Fashioned Butch: An Interview With Dr. Shruti Chakravarty
Dr. Shruti Chakravarty talks to us about queerness, gender, labels, community and love.
Mar 22, 2022
“It’s simple, to live life emotions are very important so why should you suppress them?” Lesbian Love and Freedom Journeys with Maya Sharma
An interview with Maya Sharma
Mar 13, 2022
Ek Se Bhale Do - The Story Behind AOI’s Two Laadli Awards!
The making of #AikaToTheBaika and #LesbianLetterExchange!
Dec 07, 2021
Kabhi Alvida Kehna! How I Said Ta-Ta Bye-Bye to Gender Norms and Became Beautiful
It was not easy to dress like a girl outside; only in the secrecy of my room.
Sep 17, 2021
Discovering My Sexual Self Through Therapy
Now that I have been living by myself, the quietness has given me time to take off these masks.
Oct 13, 2021
You Are My Di!
What keeps an intense friendship alive in a world that defines love & friendship separately?
Aug 04, 2021
How Vulnerability Can Fill Our Lives with Love!
#PyaariVulnerability
Jul 28, 2021
Can Your Vulnerability Make You Mean? Mine Did.
What memories can a unexpected apology from a childhood bully bring up?
Jul 22, 2021
Whose is the Voice in our Head? The (Mis)adventures of Vulnerability and Vetaal
A series of comics on what #VulnerABILITY says to us in our worst moments.
Jul 19, 2021
“Being well-adjusted to this world is no measure of being well”- Vulnerability, Strength and Mental Health
A conversation with Sonal Giani!
Jul 26, 2021
I Will Not Write About The Boy I Like
The world is imploding. I should not be writing about the boy I like, who recently told me he likes me too.
Jul 01, 2021
How Do Vulnerabilities Play Out in Sex?
Why do we make sexual choices that make us vulnerable? Can one #VulnerABILITY lead to another?
Jul 12, 2021
7 Kinds of Vulnerability We Glimpse in Films
From Deewar, to Frances Ha - what vulnerabilities do films bring out?
Jul 09, 2021
Six People on What They Learned About Vulnerability By Working At A Helpline
What listening to people at their most vulnerable moment can teach us about resilience.
Jul 07, 2021
“Without Vulnerability There is No Revolution” – Bole Toh? The AOI Chhotu Essay!
Is #VulnerABILITY just a personal maamla or something more?
Jun 28, 2022
Why We Need Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Why CSE helps dismantle the sexual vulnerability time-bomb!
Jul 03, 2021
5 Laws and Policies That Were Meant To Help Adolescents - So Why Didn't They?
Do these laws #Care for Indian adolescents? Or do they just seek to #Control?
Jun 24, 2021
Some of us need to be understood differently: Breaking Up and Mental Illness
Rukmini writes about her relationship and break-up, and how as a person with mental-illness, she wishes it could have been done differently.
Jul 29, 2021
Happy Ending - A Poem
A poem about moving on from emotionally unavailable people
Mar 06, 2021
The Vicious Ability of Ableism: What do you do when you're explicitly told that you're unlovable, over and over again?
Jul 15, 2021
If Love is A Rose, Mine is Rather Grotesque
Once bitten, twice shy – Can one learn to trust again?
Jul 04, 2021
WHY MEN DON'T TALK ABOUT MASTURBATORS - AND OTHER QUESTIONS YOU NEVER THOUGHT TO ASK
How restricting sex to peno-vaginal intercourse hinders possibilities of self-pleasure
Mar 04, 2021
To Think Of All the Bisexual Love I’ve Missed!
I’m 28 and I recently realized I’m bisexual.
Feb 22, 2021
What Does A Dictionary Of Digital Dating Tell Us About Dating?
Ease of access to hurtful behaviour- the many attitudes that digital dating reveal.
Jan 13, 2021
I am Big and Beautiful
A fat woman rises to own her sexuality, desire and desirability
Nov 21, 2020
THE OTHER F WORD - A Poem
Running into woman-on-woman porn to rediscover sex
Dec 21, 2020
How Masturbation Helped Me Cope With Heartbreak
Masturbation and other remedies for rejection.
Oct 29, 2020
READING MINDS - 8 Indian Books About Experiencing Mental Illness
Books to help understand mental and emotional turmoil
Oct 22, 2020
My Body In Bed Isn’t Any Kind of Map To Pleasure
What is intimacy like when it’s traumatic to live in your body/head?
Oct 12, 2020
It Was ‘Twilight’. I Woke Up Bisexual.
How one can stumble upon one's (bi)sexuality with the help of fiction / fan-fiction
Sep 23, 2020
Looking For Privacy In Laws
A list of laws which play a part in governing private lives
Sep 15, 2020
To All the Boys I Couldn't Love Before
What fleeting connections with many interesting men tell you about having the hots for none of them.
Aug 04, 2020
HINDI MOVIES UNLOCKED MY LOCKDOWN LIBIDO aka CORONA PYAAR HAI RETURNS
Learning the art and drama of distancing in times of Corona from Hindi movies.
Jul 20, 2020
NON BINARY PEOPLE'S DAY - A PRIMER
Oct 21, 2020
June Rewind - #WhenWomenLoveWomen, All In One Place
Stories, histories and resources for queer women - ek dhamakedar package!
Jun 30, 2020
You've Got Mail! Letters Between An Older and A Younger Lesbian - Plain Text Version
Jun 24, 2020
Secret Loves And Broken Hearts: A Comic
A comic about queer desire, love, and loss.
Jun 26, 2020
Satrangi Ladki, Atrangi Khiladi: A Comic About Shiela
The many romances and realities of this dashing woman!
Jun 28, 2020
Steamy Shayari Alert! #WhenWomenLoveWomen in 19th Century Awadh
Some seductive Chapti poems from India's past!
Jun 23, 2020
Pehle App! Online Dating Tips for Queer Ladies from Queer Ladies
Confused about how to begin? Here's some tips from our queer Agents!
Jun 19, 2020
You’ve Got Mail! Letters Between An Older and A Younger Lesbian
How much has changed for women who love women in urban India?
Jun 24, 2020
Shiela Ki Jawaani Ki Anokhi Kahaani
An excerpt from Maya Sharma's Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India
Jun 13, 2020
THE L WORD - KONJUM HISTORY, ZARA GEOGRAPHY, THODA POLITICS
The many variations, slangs and slurs for the word 'lesbian' across the world!
Jun 11, 2020
"So Many Women, But It's Her I Love"
An excerpt from Maya Sharma's Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India
Jun 07, 2020
I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It - 7 Queer Women Tell Us About Their First Kiss With A Girl
Stories of people's first taste of pleasure and tenderness
Jun 01, 2020
What Falling For My Friend As A Lesbian Taught Me About How We Express Friendship
Does queerness complicate the experience of falling for a friend?
Jun 15, 2020
I Have a Disability. Why Does Everyone Keep Saying That Love is Not For Me?
It took me way too long to realise that I, too, was allowed to love. That I, too, was worthy of it.
Mar 23, 2020
AOI Tutions with Bitti: Sex, Pregnancy and Abortion! #MyBodyMyChoice
Get your sex-ed fundas right with Bitti!
Feb 19, 2020
The (Secret) Porn That Turns Me On
Must our fantasies mirror our real-life sexual preferences?
Jan 27, 2020
I Believe in the Promises Made by Passing Strangers: Cruising and the City
Leaving behind the threshold of our homes, what other boundaries do we cross?
Jul 23, 2019
Hair, There and Everywhere: The AOI Body Hair Survey
What we learned from 665 people's answers about body hair
Jul 09, 2019
More Than An Identity: How I Realised My Struggle Was With Being Sexual, Not Homosexual
My identity as a queer person became a bit of a shield from the world of love, the world of sex
Jun 11, 2019
‘Queer’ Kya Hai?
Your favourite agents are here with another #SuperSaralExplainer!
Jun 04, 2019
Genital Jaankari
Have you wondered what pushes their pleasure buttons, but felt too unsure to ask?
May 02, 2019
Pubic and Private: Remove or Don't Remove Body Hair?
Does body hair have anything to do with sexual pleasure?
Apr 16, 2019
Dil Ki Rani, Rishton Ka Rajya
A look at the many kinds of relationships in the realm of rishtas!
Feb 28, 2019
How My Relationships Made Me Question Pyaar, Azaadi aur Accountability
Is ‘demanding accountability’ just a euphemism for trying to control someone?
Feb 26, 2019
Contraception Ka Swayamvaar: Choose Your Perfect Contraception Partner!
Feb 05, 2019
Things Young Men Say to Me During Sex-Ed Workshops
From ‘What is a clitoris?’ to sharing stories of heartbreak, a sexuality educator tells us some of the burning issues on men’s minds
Jan 15, 2019
Wondering Why People are Protesting the Anti-Trafficking Bill? Here’s a Quick Guide
In past days you would have seen that people are protesting the Anti-Trafficking Bill alongside the Trans Rights Bill. The two Bills are flawed on their own. But they are also connected in some ways.
Dec 29, 2018
Not Sure Why People Are Protesting the Trans Bill? Here's A Quick Guide
Many amendments have been made to the Bill since it was drafted, but activists say it is still discriminatory, mainly for the following reasons.
Dec 26, 2018
How I Grew Out of My Turbulent Teens
Life as a schoolgirl was about trying to fit in; to be seen and not seen; self-hate and self-harm. Talking about it to other people was the first step in a new direction
Jan 17, 2019
Homosexuality in India: Old or New?
Here’s what Sahapedia has to say about Indian tradition and the current arguments about homosexuality in India’s Supreme Court
Jul 25, 2018
Inside the World of Puu – A Beautiful Comic about Love
Puu is a webcomic about Saboor and Jameel, two housemates in Chennai, and other people whose lives intersect with theirs.
Jun 26, 2018
Being Equal, Being Queer Rozana
May 17, 2018
Dance Your Body, Love Your Baby
A fun video made by Agents of Ishq and Point of View.
May 07, 2018
What Is It Like To Have Sex and Love With Both Men and Women
Sex with men and with women is actually very different but it’s difficult to articulate the difference in sensation.
Mar 22, 2018
Libido Lightbulb Moments: What movie first turned you on?
Here are several kinds of movie sexiness that people told us marked the first time a movie made them horny.
Jan 11, 2018
LOVE, SEX AND KHICHDI
I just wanted to hold him tight and never let go. I wanted to make sure he would come back and I wanted to scream at him for untangling the ‘not’s in my chest.
Dec 12, 2017
#Unfinished Business: A Conversation about Sudden Heartbreaks
Expert tips on dealing with a broken heart.
Oct 17, 2017
LOVE, SEX AUR DIMAAG: A VIDEO ABOUT MENTAL SEXUAL HEALTH
Oct 16, 2017
PUBIC AND PRIVATE: THE PROS AND CONS OF REMOVING BODY HAIR
To remove or not to remove?
Nov 24, 2017
WHAT DOCTORS (REALLY) THINK ABOUT SEX, ABORTION AND VIRGINITY
A doctor’s account of gender and moral biases that are rife in the health care system.
Oct 24, 2017
Jugni Songs and the Traveling Sparks of Freedoms
Freedom has no fixed address. It’s meanings are always changing, always on the move. Like Jugni.
Aug 15, 2017
I Came Out To My Mom And Now I Think She's Fomosexual
A mother's totally unexpected response to her daughter's coming out!
Aug 22, 2017
WHAT INDIAN MEN FEEL ABOUT THEIR PENIS
Apr 26, 2017
Every Navratri Falguni Made Me Feel That Queer Is Ekdum Cool
A song of ishq for Falguni Pathak!
Oct 05, 2016
HETERO HOMO BI BI: SHIT BISEXUALS HAVE TO HEAR
Shit bisexuals have to hear.
Sep 23, 2016
I CALL HER MOSAMBI
Sep 23, 2016
WHITE PUBIC HAIR
Sep 08, 2016
HOW WAS THE SEX-ED FOR YOU?
Aug 22, 2016
Birds Do It. Bees Do It.
Aug 19, 2016
Opening Up About Your Sexual Self
GIFS that express the pain of hiding your sexual self
Aug 01, 2016
LOVE ALL: THE UNLIMITED WAYS OF PANSEXUALITY
Today is International Pansexuality Awareness and Visibility Day! Read the unlimited ways Love Pans out! #AOIQuickies
Jun 28, 2022
Jewels like Flowers: About Men's Bodies and Women's Desires
We are always made aware of the beauty of the feminine, but what about the masculine figures? Read this essay by Elisa Brune to know a woman’s love for the opposite sex.
Feb 01, 2016
Ek Se Bhale Do – The Story Behind AOI’s Two Laadli Awards!
Dec 15, 2021
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