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Breaking The Binary: Answers To Your Questions About The LGBTQIA+ Community

Breaking The Binary: Answers To Your Questions About The LGBTQIA+ Community As we revel in this pride month, we often tend to forget that pride month is more than just a way for big multinational companies to express support towards the LGBTQIA+ community. It is more than a market gimmick rather than showing allyship. Adding […]

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Vex-Ed About Sex-Ed: An Interview With Mallika and Vartika

Vex-Ed About Sex-Ed: An Interview With Mallika and Vartika Saairah Mehta had the opportunity to interview the co-founders of a sex-ed organization, Vex-Ed, Mallika Bawa, and Vartika. Mallika and Vartika attended school together and have been friends ever since. Mallika studies zoology at St. Xaviers University, Mumbai, and Vartika studies biomedical sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Vex-Ed

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Finer Things Club: Portrait of a Metrosexual Being

Finer Things Club: Portrait of a Metrosexual Being Metrosexual is a portmanteau of a metropolitan male of any sexual orientation who spends time and money on their external appearance, cultivates an aesthetic lifestyle, and won’t hesitate to burn a hole to get that Prada suit. This term was first used by British journalist Mark Simpson and caused

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Let’s talk! Sexual rights in India and Persons with Disability (PwD)

Let’s talk! Sexual rights in India and Persons with Disability (PwD) Sexual rights, often misunderstood to a limited understanding of one’s right to sexuality. These human rights also include freedom, equality, privacy, security, etc. The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) defined, “Sexual rights embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international human rights

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Demisexuality, the need to normalize sexual orientations on the margins.

Demisexuality, the need to normalize sexual orientations on the margins. Nikita Ghodke writes, demisexuality has nothing to do with one’s gender identity. It neither can be confused with asexuality. However, demisexuals come under the asexual umbrella or the asexual spectrum. People that identify as demisexuals find themselves experiencing sexual attraction only if a strong emotional

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