Sexual Health While Living with the HIV The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that damages the immunity system of an individual. In most cases, a person with this virus is asymptomatic. They start showing symptoms of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) like fever, fatigue, night sweats, etc. HIV spreads in several ways in which […]
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A Widow’s Yearning: The Loss of Sex Introduction: Death and Grief Death hits all of us hard. It is often said that the sadness, the despair and the aching pain that stems from the loss of a loved one lessens as time passes, but it isn’t true. Not for everyone at least. For some people,
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Bras: to wear or not to wear? Written by- Medha Sharma and Suhasi Dewan Breaking the Myths around Bras There are ample amounts of myths about going braless that dictate our lives since time immemorial. The sociological constructs are so rigid and programmed in our society that it gives little to no space for a conflicting idea
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What a Slut! Written by- Abhivyakti Gupta & Vagmi Sharma Who is a Sex Worker? “Unethical! Illegal! What a disgrace! This is socially unacceptable!! Shameless!” These are often the words that come to one’s mind when they hear the word ‘sex worker’. According to WHO, sex work is defined as the provision of sexual services for money or
Benevolent Sexism Written by- Aadya Gupta and Nandini Shukl The Uglier Side of Sexism Sexism has two sides, the hostile and well recognized, which consists of denying women access to areas deemed ‘important’, and the other (falsely) benevolent, which involves praising their skills in traditionally feminine and undervalued tasks. These two sides combine to form ambivalent
Breaking Down the ‘Ideal Body’ Written by- Asher Kaul The Vitruvian Man One of the first and most widely accepted variants of the ideal body type was by Leonardo da Vinci, in the form of the Vitruvian Man. This concept had been around for a long time, but his take on it was quite unique. This rendering of
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Plan B: An insight into emergency contraceptives In the previous blog, we covered pre-planned oral contraception pills aka Plan A. But what do you do when things don’t turn out the way you had planned? You resort to Plan B! When it comes to contraceptives, this plan B is known as emergency contraceptive pill or morning
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Oral Contraceptive : All About Plan A All of us have experienced peer pressure in our lives. Remember the time we begged our parents for the trendiest phone that the other kids had? Or wanted that little black dress worn by our bestie. Well, dating for some is no different either. You might not even
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AUD QueerFest From March 5-7, Pratisandhi participated at the Queer fest hosted by the Queer Collective of Ambedkar University, Kashmere Gate, New Delhi. The fest sprang from the collective belief in the carnivalesque form of building solidarities. It considers queerness as any process that challenges the normative, the dominant, the majority. The fest contextualizes the
Donation Dive: Traversing the Streets of Hyderabad On the 26th and 31st of December 2018, Pratisandhi Hyderabad took to the slums of Miyapur and the Chenchu tribes of Srisailam for the first and second halves of their donation drive. In both the areas, the young and the old are struggling to lead hygienic lives. Our
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