Throughout history and mainstream media the glorification and sexualization of lesbians and bisexual women is ever present and sits on the verge of coming of age culture. The hyper-sexualization of queer women, especially femme embodying queer women drowns out the reality and authenticity of true intimate connections made by queer women. Fetishising girl-on-girl pornography has … Continue reading
Featured Image by Siddharth Sapre the kitchen in my ancestral home is my grandma’s fortress, home to the women and a guesthouse to the men in my family. 6:00 am knows my grandma’s morning face, her unpinned saree and tangled grey hair. stored in the creases of her palms are untold stories of her very … Continue reading
Featured Image by Ishani Das Deep slumber has met its end I get off my bed a black waterfall rises and falls beyond my shoulders a million streams of water dark as the night relish in their freedom just as I grab a hair tie tie them up and get to the day. Hours … Continue reading
By Shaily Mishra Shaily Mishra is a final-year undergraduate student of journalism at Kalindi College, Delhi University. She is a budding cinematographer who likes to be called a feminist visual storyteller. She mostly drifts around mining the repository of forgotten and underrated Indian Cinema or attempts to unclog her writer’s block. She can be found … Continue reading
Featured Artwork by Sanno Singh The internet dawned on me, much after, it did on my generation of internet users. While my friends made Facebook and Club Penguin Accounts, streamed movies online, and wrote elaborate emails to each other, I was still waiting in line with my library card in the school library, week after … Continue reading
Featured Artwork by Ellen Von Wiegand I’ve let several hands roam over this body; seeking resolutions to all my conflicts Holding on to pocket-sized phrases from one night stands, and injecting them in my spine In an attempt to stand a little taller than I am. I’ve let pulsating fingers scuffle through my hair in … Continue reading
Featured Artwork by Saloni Goel Chorus 1 In archwayed roofs we sit beneath our lives that’ll continue moving without stopping to rearrange for what we most need. Chorus 2 When silence stops on the corner to eat & the food cart. … Continue reading
Human life, from the inception of documented and discovered evidence, has been deeply and markedly engulfed by art. Our lives often find themselves transposing across mediums, at least for the few moments of entanglement with the artwork. A gist of solace and easement unfurls itself in our conversations with and around art – our being … Continue reading
Featured Artwork by Tara Anand This is a poem. This is a poem about a poem – about all the poems, clogged in my mind, entrapped by my mind – lurking beneath the cracks and crevices of my mind – incessantly toiling – to come out and see the light of this laptop screen This … Continue reading
Featured Artwork by Kira Issar New growth can be panoramically different from other phases of life. Chrysalising into a newer semblance of personhood is as painful as the nostalgia of readjusting to a previous life, an entire pathway unknown. Why are we fascinated with blackholes? Is it because we are exceptionally curious or is it … Continue reading
