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Sexual Rights and Social Movements in India
How do you fight with empty hands?
Rare are the circumstances anywhere in the world today where we are able to understand and feel safe within our bodies, to name, seek, and express our desires, and to be able to articulate dynamic and wide-ranging understandings of our sexualities.
Rarer still are understandings of sexuality that reach beyond sex, violence, disease on the one hand, and reproduction, marriage, and silence on the other. For all of us, however we identify or understand our sexualities, dominant discourses of truth – medicine, law, religion, culture, nation – determine how we are able to experience and understand sexuality.
Globally and locally, our faith, our science, our identities, and our cultures deny us space for articulation and exploration, refuse us inclusive and interconnected definitions of sexuality that speak of power and politics as much as about the act of sex, or simply take from us languages and spaces of protest.
