Genderandsexuality

The Queer Take: Lessons from Tina Turner, Princess Diana and Rekha's revenge lookbooks

There must be a reason that tragic female figures making public statements through their image hold sway over the queer imagination.

The double lives of gay men in China's Hainan province: Navigating visibility and invisibility in public spaces

How gay men in Hainan understand themselves, build communities and negotiate the pressures to conform to the heterosexual life script of marriage and reproduction.

Bangladesh's Boishakhi TV hires country’s first-ever transgender news anchor, to champion trans visibility and rights

Tashnuva Anan Shishir, who previously worked as a rights activist and actress, debuted on Dhaka-based Boishakhi TV on Monday, International Women’s Day.

In COVID-ravaged America, much ado about masturbation: What Jeffrey Toobin's Zoom faux pas exposes

This week, the world of the autoerotic was thrown into the spotlight: Jeffrey Toobin, scholar, author and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker, was suspended after he was spotted masturbating on a Zoom event.

The Queer Take: Viewing TikTok and Instagram as spaces of love and desire, where queer expression is realised

Why did TikTok feel like a queer space? Because it is.

The Queer Take: Contemplating 'allyship', 'safe spaces' and my refusal of new-found properties in LGBTQ+ discourse

As I write this column just after Pride Month and I realise I haven’t always been this grumpy gay that doesn't want to join the parties and parades. So what changed?

Growing up mixed-race, queer and femme, how Saroj Khan provided me the keys to the vehicle of my body

In hindsight, I was always meant to fall in love with Saroj Khan. So here’s our convoluted love story: are you ready?

Faced with daunting challenges in lockdown, trans men in India rely on online, offline support from community

The lockdown has not only caused trans men in rural and urban India to be stuck in unsupportive quarantine spaces, but also increased the inaccessibility of regular testosterone shots and gender affirming surgery, thus adding to their dysphoria and other mental health issues.

Schitt's Creek to Made in Heaven, why wave of LGBTQ+ content has met with complicated reception from queer folk

In speaking to queer people from across generations, it seems there is a complicated reception to this new tsunami of LGBTQ+ content.

Crux of 'bois locker room' case lies in unpacking link between performance of masculinity and sexual violence

As the criminal justice system is set in motion in the #boislockerroom case, it is important that we keenly focus on how notions of masculinity — especially amongst adolescents — contribute to sexual violence, and how societal responses, including legal action against the accused, need to account for these factors