sexuality

Beyond Clickbait: A Reporter’s Guide to Representing Queer Lives in Regional Media

The TTE-queerbeat Fellowship Programme is a collaboration that seeks to produce, mentor and platform stories by queer folks in Hindi. These stories explore sexuality in the rural context, through the facets of consent, desire, romance and risk, and aim to understand how debates in the wider sexuality discourse and grassroots organisations speak to the realities of queer individuals outside big cities.

Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Pehli Raat

On the first night after their wedding, a bride and groom are consumed with anticipation. The million-dollar question is: Who will make the first move?

Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Shaadi

As Bollywood has taught us, weddings are self-replicating phenomenons: one leads to the other. In this playfully pious shebang, when two strangers meet, not one word is needed for everything to be communicated.

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Should I Feel Disgusted By My Sexual Fantasies?

From an early age, I felt a constant need to express myself sexually. I wouldn’t call myself ‘sexual’ (even as the sexuality educator in me screams, ‘There’s nothing wrong with being sexual!’). On the sexuality spectrum, I lean towards demisexuality.

Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Bulli Ka Photo

A tuition class takes no time to transform into a jungle in the absence of the teacher and shy Jehan is an easy prey for the young bullying girls of Pakur, Jharkhand. If you have ever wondered if Gossip Girl could be set in rural India, this episode is your answer.

Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Magazine Se Lekar Suhaagraat Tak

Where does one actually receive sex education? How does one know what to do and what to expect on the first night after marriage? F se Field, Issh se Isshq is a series of audio stories emerging from the lived realities, desires and fantasies of young and middle aged persons engaged in development and education work.

Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Love Bite

What happens when a study session between two friends is interrupted by a shocking confession? Will it leave their friendship unharmed or are there darker secrets to be kept?

Feminist Stories of Ishq in Hindi

F se Field, Issh se Ishq: Khel Khel Mein

Can a playful joke turn into a moment of revelation for two mischievous friends? We bring to you a taste of what it means for a young adult to feel all the feelings, straight from Pakur, Jharkhand.