You are the object.
She comes and asks me who I am
Asks me to grip harder.
When the moon is unreachable
I push myself into the breachable
Her eyes feel my insides and suddenly
I am nobody.
By Q Dec 12 2019 |
You fumble and drop sentences, your leg trembles and beats a staccato rhythm on the pavement while she patiently hears out your half-complete, constantly backtracking stories, nods and keeps brushing her hair back.
By Ria Nov 19 2019 |
Intersex people spend a lot of their lives doing this emotional labor for others because they are inherently responsible to be born an error.
By Mohammed Nov 11 2019 |
Sadat’s book is a heartfelt coming-of-age story of a young boy who not only has to deal with the struggles of being gay in a conservative society but also has to survive war, starvation and intense loss while doing so.
By Kudrat Wadhwa Nov 5 2019 |
Artwork by
acrylicelephant
I hate that I wallow
That I bury my face into my hands
Slam the door behind me
And cry all day
I hate that my diary …
By Riya Gurnani Nov 4 2019 |
she's a habit. an 8 am class that I take, a 5 pm phone call that I make, my best/worst muse.
By Tanya Sharma Oct 14 2019 |
This is a story of a girl who falls in love with an ethereal being who literally tears out her heart.
By Riya Nagendra Sep 26 2019 |
This question took me back all those years ago and I vividly saw her pushing some kid out of the way to crouch down in front of the place he was about to step on.
By Hashi Risus Sep 25 2019 |
When I joined the course, I was excited to share my experiences with the class. But with time I realised not everyone was interested. Most of them didn't interact with me, asked questions, or exchange their experiences.
By Anonymous Sep 16 2019 |
Hindi Poem by Shubhshree Mathur.
By Shubhshree Mathur Sep 9 2019 |
If I wasn’t feeling like shit because I was turned on by girls (one girl in particular), I’m sure I would have found something else to hate myself for. I was young, female, loud, and had a body. Society does this to you. It moulds you till you are all soft woundable spots, and then it makes you kick yourself.
By Rohini Malur Sep 6 2019 |
I tried to remember if the booth on screen is the same booth that I and my partner usually go and get a security check from. I couldn’t recognise it. I stopped thinking and concentrated on the film.
By anonymous Sep 4 2019 |
I want to tell him how I feel,
How I struggle to sleep,
That fear of the two letter word,
Makes me weep,
He is The Only One.
By Neil M Sep 3 2019 |
how do you know it's girls?
i wonder as my friend comes out to me
how do you know the limit of your love?
and somehow, weird quizzes dragged me all over the internet
By Eshita Shrawan Aug 28 2019 |
Meera made a friend in the glass case she suffocated in for 25 years.
By Ritu Aug 14 2019 |
The universe tells you nothing.
But when I first laid my eyes upon her left shoulder,
and saw a tiny, black mole
all this logic was gone.
By Sayuri Aug 6 2019 |
Loving someone who is in the closet taught me how to manage my feelings and changed the way our everyday lives unfolded. I realised that being with someone who is in the closet means respecting them and their privacy, and being supportive.
By Anonymous Aug 1 2019 |
An intellectual phenomenon, almost
Ready for you to stare at but never touch
And debate what these clothes mean, this hair, this skin, this nail hanging limply at the end of my
finger
By Anshumaan Sathe Jul 22 2019 |
An armchair critic up to the age of 30. I finally decided to take the plunge and come out publicly in 2004. I had been out to close friends and family for a decade. The catalyst for my activism was the Islamist movement and its growing influence within communities like mine in Luton.
By Ejel Khan Jul 18 2019 |
The luminous room was welcoming,
A place where he was transformed,
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes,
This is where his life reformed.
By Swaraj Kasar Jul 12 2019 |
