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What ‘Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’ Tells Us About Mothers |How Family System Influence Us|
"Everything Everywhere All At Once" dives into family systems. Evelyn's love for her daughter Joy creates friction, as Joy craves acceptance for her choices....

Your First Relationship ≠ Your Last |Examining The Pressure To Stay In A Relationship|
This excerpt examines the pressure to stay in a first relationship. While the initial excitement may fade, societal expectations, family influence, and the fear...

Leaving The Closet?
Things to think about before making up your mind. Coming out and living openly aren’t something you do once, or even for a...

Voices of Pride: Aniruddha's Journey
I met my mother thirty-three years ago, in the closed ward of a maternity clinic hidden away in one of Bombay’s many suburbs (the...

Voices of Pride: Soham’s Journey
Being queer is beautiful. Being queer is liberating. But it wasn’t always this way for me. When I first started to realise that I...

Voice of Pride: Akruti's Journey
Since childhood, I observed that the only accepted and “normalised” form of romantic relationship was between two “heterosexuals”. As a teenager, I always felt...

Voices of Pride: Aarohi's Journey
I’ve always liked women in a way that I liked men but I’ve never been able to say it out aloud because of the...

When A Loved One Come out To You
How to find the right way to respond? We have all used this GIF at least once in our chats, whether it is to...

At The Intersection Of Brownness, Queerness & Womanhood
“If you also put in a little effort, you’d look beautiful too!”, was a common platitude I was used to receiving from well-wishers throughout...

Food & LGBTQ+
The relationships between gender identity, sexuality, body image and perceptions about shape and size are complex. There are certain stressors that only LGBTQ+ individuals...

How Do You Know You're Straight?
“When did you know that you’re straight?”“It took me a lecture on gender and sexuality in the second year of my bachelor’s course to...