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Tag: sexuality
With ‘The Right to Sex’, Amia Srinivasan Wants to Revitalise Feminism
Amia Srinivasan’s new essay collection is less a manifesto than an attempt to think through the concerns of contemporary feminism.
Reimagining Aesthetics: The Trouble With Lookism
How beauty biases are reinforced in many ways, including at the workplace.
Our Bodies Are Political
How did the land of the alluringly sensual 'Kama Sutra' become a place of caged desires, closeted sexuality, and coveted freedom?
The Wrong Reasons
A short guide on consent, physical intimacy, sex and everything else that you were never told about.
14 Questions I Asked Google
A poem on asking a search engine about being gay.
‘Padhke Kya Hi Kar Logi’: How Patriarchy Turns Women Against Women
When the women around me value other women's child-bearing ability and submissiveness, how am I to fight the patriarchy?
My PCOS Body: Fighting Shame and Conservatism
Society is still not ready to view a woman’s ovarian cysts outside the stereotypical male gaze.
Beate Uhse: The Woman Behind the World’s First Sex Shop
In the post world war period, Beate Uhse — a former pilot — would sell brochures and pamphlets on marital hygiene to women in Flensberg, Germany.
Disabled LGBT+ Young People Face a Battle Just to Be Taken Seriously
Interviewees report being told their identity is just a 'phase'.