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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
'I feel HIV much easier to live with than even diabetes or high blood pressure'
Adopted kids, gave birth, joined a corporate workspace, became an athlete… Persons living with HIV share that testing positive wasn’t the end of the world
Dec 01, 2024
Sexual Surrogacy: Bole Toh, A Practicals Wala Therapy That Can Help You Become Thoda Confident During Sex
You can't just line up. Your therapist will have to recommend one
Oct 27, 2024
The Boy Who Stole Babur's Heart
Discovering a different side of the Mughal Emperor – bashful, poetic and queer
Oct 04, 2024
‘Mom told me not to peek out of blanket and go back to sleep’
Seven people share the moment they realised that their parents were sexual beings, too
Sep 17, 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
In India we don’t say I have got my periods…
From talking about being “out of the house” to being a traffic stopper, a list of desi euphemisms for menstruation
Aug 27, 2024
What do you call 'Home'?
In a map of different words for home, different meanings of home
Aug 15, 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
Gym Se Gym Tak: A History of Naked Men (With Abs)
Tracing the image of the nude, fit masculine figure through space and time – from Apollo’s gymnasium in Ancient Greece to today’s Indian ‘hero’
Aug 13, 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
Love Has Come Into My Life. But It Has Also Left My Life As Quickly
I am a trans woman. I wonder now if I will ever find love
Jun 17, 2024
Blood Donation Safety: Why Are Trans People and MSMs Not Allowed to Donate Blood in India?
Is blood donation in India inclusive, accessible and equitable?
Jun 14, 2024
Queer Kisses On Screen From 1958
India has shown queer intimacies on screen for decades. Here are a few snapshots
Jun 11, 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 Bullying I Faced In School, And How It Shaped What I Do Today
From the time I started speaking, I used feminine pronouns. And it made me the target of my classmates, teachers and even my father
May 20, 2024
The Story of Miss Shefali – Calcutta’s Cabaret Queen
How one artiste danced and defied her way to becoming the ‘numero uno’ of the city’s entertainment scene
Apr 29, 2024
Love Served With a Side of Mutton Sukka, Chicken Curry and Coconut Chutney
The impromptu meal Babasaheb Ambedkar cooked for friends and family
Apr 14, 2024
The Dil Lootne Waale Tomboys – AOI’s Sexy Saturday Songs
Bollywood has long celebrated the boisterous, adventurous, gender-bending tomboys – sometimes in complete songs, and sometimes in hard-to-forget glimpses
Mar 30, 2024
The Manifesto Matrimonial That (Shoulda) Made History
Why be a bahu when you can be bahurupi?
Mar 22, 2024
A Queer Party Called Life
We talked about the queer history of Mumbai...Aur baarish ke mausam mein the room was filled with the warmth of stories and pyaar. To creating more such spaces!
Jun 30, 2022
What Do Students Say When There's No Sex-Ed?
Pesh hai anecdotes from AOI's archives about situations students face all alone when there's no Sex-Ed!
Jul 15, 2022
What's The Controversy Around Gender Testing In Sports?
What is the deal about it really? Why is it being challenged by athletes across the world? Read on to know
Aug 29, 2022
Tomboy! A Thrilling History of Gender — Bole Toh? The AOI Chhotu Essay!
The Tomboy versus heterocapitalism.
Mar 08, 2024
What Is The Difference Between A Psychologist, A Psychiatrist and A Counsellor?
Did you know not all mental health professionals do the same thing? Their training and specializations vary. Read on to how what Counselling Psychologist Utkarsha Jagga says -
Oct 05, 2022
How Can You Look Out For Your Child's Mental Health?
Counselling Psycholgist Utkarsha Jagga suggests six tips on how you can care for your children's mental health while protecting their privacy.
Oct 10, 2022
Is Good Touch/Bad Touch Really An Effective Way To Educate Kids About Consent?
Sex educator Srinidhi asks - what do we miss out about children’s consent and agency when we limit touch to ‘good’ and ‘bad’?
Nov 23, 2022
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
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
Why Is There A Pleasure Premium On ‘Tight’ Vaginas?
A doctor asks: Can we please have conversations around (hetero)sexual pleasure that don’t focus on ‘editing’ women’s bodies for men’s sake?
Mar 15, 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
Ayye! The rebellion I staged to save my “dirty” Sidney Sheldons
Amma shamed me in front of my crush, and so I had to have my revenge too, publicly!
Jan 08, 2024
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 does talking about sex-ed make us so squeamish?
AOI unpacks the many issues at the heart of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's statement about sex-education in the Bihar legslative assembly, and all the furore around it
Nov 09, 2023
Peg, Peg Karne Laga: The Mazedaar History of Pegging and Why It Matters
How the term ‘pegging’ came to be and the larger questions it raises about gender roles and sex
Nov 03, 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
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
How Much Of A Man Is A Disabled Man?
What does disability reveal about the idea of masculinity?
Oct 06, 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
Chocolate: A Hindi Book On Homosexuality That Caused Much Debate In The 1920s
Written by Ugra, aka Pandey Bechan Sharma, the book was a a bestseller, but its critics were many too #HindiDiwas
Aug 14, 2023
Teachers Across India Share The AOI Material They Used And How Their Students Reacted To It!
#HappyTeachersDay
Sep 05, 2023
The Agents of Ishq Approach to Sex-Ed
Yaniki why we talk about sex the way we do!
Sep 01, 2023
Did You Know Speed Dating Was Created By A Jewish Rabbi?
Let's find out more about this mutual swayamvar aka 90's ka tinder!
Aug 11, 2023
Have You Heard of Ninkasi: The Goddess of Beer!
This ancient Mesopotamian tale has more drama than Game of Thrones! #HappyInternationalBeerDay
Aug 04, 2023
History of Internet In 10 Sexy Phrases
Here are 10 phrases that track how the Internet changed sex over the years!
Aug 01, 2023
How Caste and Colonialism Shaped the History of STIs in India
When the firang soldiers came to India, they brought Syphilis. What happened next is the story of how caste marginalization plays out and affects health policies!
Jul 28, 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
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
Kailash Puri - The Punjabi Sex-Ed Agony Aunty from the 50's
She invented Punjabi words for genitals like "Madan Chhatri" for "clitoris"
Jun 10, 2022
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
Dr Alyappin Padmanabba Pillay and His Anti No-Fap Crusade in 1940's India
How one sexologist addressed the 'semen anxiety' of anxious young men in modern India.
May 12, 2023
Did You Know The First Vibrators Were Used By Men?
How did the vibrator go from being used in medicine to being used for orgasms?
May 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
What Does Fictosexual Mean?
Falling in lou with fictional characters koi fiction nahin!
Mar 17, 2023
"Conscious Uncoupling is more about emotional freedom from the negative patterns of the past" An Interview with Dr. Suchitra
Dr. Suchitra tells us how to end relationships in an empowered and dignified way!
Mar 09, 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
Drowning In Love - A Valentines Month Reading List
5 books on big big love stories where love defined itself differently in different relationships.
Jan 01, 1970
Political Parties Which Made Love a Political Platform
They wanted to win not just hearts, but elections too!
Feb 10, 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
Queer Art We Love!
From romantic lesbian anthems to photography that capture queer lives!
Jan 19, 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
What is Sex-Tech? Can It Change Our Sex Lives for The Better?
Jan 04, 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
What's A Sexual Fantasy You Are Afraid of Being Judged For?
Nov 24, 2022
Rukhmabai Vs Dadaji Case
Nov 24, 2022
Asexuality Ki ABC - An AOI Primer
Can asexuality transform how we see pleasure itself?
Oct 30, 2022
What Are We Really Asking For When We Say We Want To Be Touched? An Interview with Ratnaboli Ray
Psychologist and mental health activist Ratnaboli Ray discusses skin hunger, touch and mental health.
Jul 21, 2022
Teachers Tell Us Why They Need Sex-Ed In Schools! AOI x The Gender Lab
35 teachers share their stories, needs and demands for Sex-Ed in schools!
Jul 14, 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
Ageing Through A Queer Eye - What is Queer Gerontology?
Can a queer lens change how we think about old age?
Mar 25, 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
Bad Habits, Good Women: My Conversations with Nuns
Unmarried, celibate, religious – is every nun the same kind of woman? Nikhita finds out!
Mar 01, 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
This Month at AOI - Who Is A #GrownAssWoman?
Mar 04, 2022
The Woman In The Closet
"I never considered my ajji was not always my ajji"
Jun 28, 2022
Fantasy, Feminism, Erotics, Politics: An Interview with Jaya Sharma
Jaya Sharma tells us about BDSM, fantasy and reality ka khel!
Feb 19, 2022
Without Fantasy There is No Liberty! Bole Toh? An AOI Chhotu Essay
Can fantasy allow us to rethink reality?
Feb 05, 2022
Dilbadar: A Dating Manifesto Minus The Bad Advice
Putting the pleasure back in online dating!
Dec 11, 2021
Stories From A Survey: Chandu's Story
Nov 01, 2021
How Vulnerability Can Fill Our Lives with Love!
#PyaariVulnerability
Jul 28, 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
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
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
Ten Tashan-Filled Tales On Being Trans : AOI’s Reading List for Transgender Day of Visibility
Ten books on being trans in India!
Mar 31, 2021
Ten Thundering Tips for Internet Ishq with Digital Security!
Steps to retain your intimate and private internet-self
Jan 15, 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
SAFE-TY NET: Tips For Parents to Provide Safe Internet Playtime For Their Kids
How to play on the internet safely without spoiling its maza for your kids?
Jan 11, 2021
WHAT IS PRIVACY
The AOI Guide To Privacy
Nov 02, 2020
SIX SIMPLE SUGGESTIONS TO HELP PARENTS LOOK OUT FOR THEIR CHILD’S MENTAL HEALTH
A little help for parents to understand for their children's mental health.
Oct 19, 2020
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
What Did Your Father Do?
In a Father’s Day special, Swati recalls the most special moments spent with her "un-special" Baba.
Jun 21, 2020
Call Me Rama: Reading Baba
A woman re-discovers the man her father was through his writings.
Jun 21, 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
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
Love Stole My Heart, Caste Broke It
If caste were not a factor, I would have been married to my first boyfriend because there was no other issue.
Apr 17, 2020
Love x Sex x Caste: A Reading List
Will you read about love with us?
Apr 15, 2020
Stuff People Said They Miss In Porn!
What people wish porn also included.
Jan 31, 2020
Sunny Leone: The Porn Star Even Your Granny Knows
How did a porn star become a household name in India?
Jan 16, 2020
Skin Hunger: The AOI Guide to Mental Health and Touch
A fun explainer, in comics form, about why touch is so important for our well-being.
Oct 03, 2019
Who is a ‘Tight’ Vagina Meant to be Pleasurable For?
A doctor asks: can we please have conversations around (hetero)sexual pleasure that don’t focus on ‘editing’ women’s bodies for men’s sake?
Sep 09, 2019
100 Things in My Body
What else do we have in this world apart from our bodies?
Jul 25, 2019
Here's How Laws on Sexual Autonomy Have Changed for Women
Sometimes the law is ahead of how people actually live, and sometimes it’s behind
Sep 12, 2019
Masculinity and Femininity Are Up For Grabs! - An Interview with The Patchworks Ensemble
A conversation with theatre artists Puja Sarup and Sheena Khalid on how they used the form to expand the ideas of gender and sexuality.
Jun 25, 2019
Hair, There and Everywhere: The AOI Body Hair Survey
What we learned from 665 people's answers about body hair
Jul 09, 2019
Remembering the Life of Sweet Maria Through Art
A unique monument to the murdered trans activist reminds us of her life as well as the violence that trans people face in India
Jun 19, 2019
Caster Semenya, Hormone Fallacies and Some Not-So-Sporting Double Standards
Is everything we think we know about gender wrong?
May 06, 2019
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
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
I Make the Kind of Goddesses that I Want to See
A Brooklyn-based artist and sculptor on six works that mean a lot to her
Mar 07, 2019
Do You Have A Chosen Family? A Few Agents Tell Us About Their Family Like Bonds
We asked you about your closest rishtas and here's love you expressed!
Feb 22, 2019
Why are Bheem and Hidimba the Real Deal?
We spoke to the artist and graphic novelist Amruta Patil about the different ways in which love and relationships exist in her work.
Feb 12, 2019
Muh Bole Rishte - 6 People Describe Their Chosen Families
Society might say “Only family is forever”, but here are stories of 6 people forming their closest bonds, beyond blood.
Feb 20, 2019
What the Law Tells Us about Relationships in India
You might be surprised – in good and bad ways.
Feb 19, 2019
When it Comes to Sex-Ed, What Do Young People Want to Talk About?
At a workshop for adolescents, we saw young people work through their fears and apprehensions to speak about their crushes.
Jan 29, 2019
Why are People Opposing the Surrogacy Bill?
Here’s a guide to help you out.
Jan 11, 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
We Asked: Has #MeToo Changed Anything for You? Here’s What You Told Us
Nov 29, 2018
Are You a Man? Has #MeToo Changed Anything for You?
If you identify as a man, this is for you.
Nov 01, 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
How Ideas of Purity Damage Our Mental Sexual Health (And Happiness)
The unconscious sexual caste system that undercuts our relationships with self and others.
Oct 10, 2018
Five Helpful Folks Giving Us Resources On Safe Abortion You Need To Follow
Sep 28, 2018
Have You Watched This Sweet Film About Anshuman Travelling on the Metro?
The film is a lovely portrait of it sparkling protagonist finding his way in the world
Sep 14, 2018
'Aap Karthe Mere Saath Sex?'
The day my research interview with a Hyderabad auto driver went off script to include sex, desire and consent
Aug 09, 2018
Why My Photo for My Lover Ruffled So Many Feathers
I had taken the photo years ago on my phone and sent it to my boyfriend, but it had stayed with me in my head.
Jun 11, 2018
Why Write About Love: A Conversation With Annie Zaidi
What goes into a love story? Why is it important to write about love? Can writing about love be an act of dissent?
May 31, 2018
Flirting: Whats Okay? Whats Not Okay?
Mar 17, 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
Meri “Baingan” Wali Story
My bainganwali story took place in Delhi, declared one of the unsafest cities in general, but for women in particular.
Dec 15, 2017
#MardonWaliBaatein: A Twitter Conversation About Men and Sexual Emotions
Twitter chat with Manak Matiyani and Devanik Saha storified
Nov 19, 2017
What Men Talk About When They Talk About Sex
As boys grow up and start having their first experiences, the conversation is similar to sharing newfound facts about sex in childhood: “You won’t believe what I did!” “how did it feel?” “this is how it is.”
Nov 17, 2017
Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki? The Big Fat Indian Break-Up
Two love stories in which Family played very different roles.
Nov 10, 2017
What Being a Sexologist Taught Me About People
Stigma has been my prime nemesis.
Nov 15, 2017
LOVE, SEX AUR DIMAAG: A VIDEO ABOUT MENTAL SEXUAL HEALTH
Oct 16, 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
How I Helped My Mother Watch Porn and Other Stories
Can a young woman learn to accept her mother too is a sexual being?
Aug 28, 2017
Diary of An Indian Sex Educator
It was a co-ed school. But the boys were not going to learn about the body.
Jul 31, 2017
A Long Time Ago In Our Own Country: Meet The Stars of Indian Sex-Ed
‘Modern’ India has had many doctors, activists, researchers, and writers doing very important work like beginning programmes for birth control, saying women have the right to enjoy sexual pleasure and talking about the never-satisfied public’s sex dilemmas.
Sep 05, 2017
Things People Tell Me About Sex: Diary Of A Gynaecologist
A gynaecologist gives us an insight into how (little) sex is understood even in marriage
Aug 01, 2017
How To Understand Your Body As You Grow Older
Jun 13, 2017
WHAT INDIAN MEN FEEL ABOUT THEIR PENIS
Apr 26, 2017
WHY I DECIDED TO PAINT SEXY PICTURES OF MALE MOVIE STARS
Mar 24, 2017
MY 1.2 FOOT VAGINA
Mar 21, 2017
Dear MTV, Please Excuse But Orgasms DO Have A Gender
Mar 10, 2017
Sex Pe Charcha With Parivaar
At Agents of Ishq we’ve been wondering if all conversations that reveal family members to each other as sexual beings necessarily involve shock, haw, khamoshi, behoshi, fainting, door-slamming and the fear that you will be married off the next week?
Apr 10, 2017
Those City Love Affairs
I find love in conversations, and in what I can never quite completely understand about the other person.
Feb 24, 2017
Artist Tarini Sethi: "Everyone is the same, we all have imperfections"
Everyone is awkward about themselves in some way or another. It’s okay to hate parts of your body, but these parts are what define you and one has to learn to love them instead of hide them.
Dec 18, 2016
Images and Imaginations of Sex
Before we can create something, we have to imagine it.
Dec 12, 2016
#SexPeCharcha Twitter Chat
Dec 09, 2016
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
HETERO HOMO BI BI: SHIT BISEXUALS HAVE TO HEAR
Shit bisexuals have to hear.
Sep 23, 2016
Grim Hairy Tales: A Depilator’s Diary - Plain Text
Sep 14, 2016
GRIM HAIRY TALES: A DEPILATOR'S DIARY
Mummy never needed to wax or shave her legs or underarms. Her lower leg was quite hairy, but were always concealed from view, as were those of all desi aunties we knew.
Sep 14, 2016
MARDON WALI BAATEIN: Things Boys Told Us About Their Feelings
We tried to unpack what the young men felt about love, sex, relationships, society and a man's place vis-a-vis these things.
Sep 21, 2016
HOW WAS THE SEX-ED FOR YOU?
Aug 22, 2016
Birds Do It. Bees Do It.
Aug 19, 2016
The A Film or Maybe It's OK to be Lost: On BR Ishara's Chetna (1970)
Jun 28, 2022
WHAT INDIAN MEN FEEL ABOUT THEIR PENIS: RESULTS OF THE GREAT INDIAN PENIS SURVEY
Jun 28, 2022
March on Women: In conversation with columnist Paromita Vohra, activist Trupti Desai - CNN IBN
Mar 12, 2016
Opening Up About Your Sexual Self
GIFS that express the pain of hiding your sexual self
Aug 01, 2016
KINKY IS QUEER
A poem on finding freedom in the Kinky and the Queer!
Jun 28, 2022
The Inheritance of Sex-Ed
Sex-Ed, through the generations - an inheritance from a father to a daughter.
May 23, 2016
Today My Mother Came Home
A mother struggles to come to terms with her son’s sexuality. A son struggles to accept his mother’s disapproval. Love and chicken curry help in the struggle. A moving story of family, choice and acceptance.
Dec 03, 2015
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