Governing Intimacies | Keynote Address | Paromita Vohra

The above address was delivered as a part of a two day research meeting for "Governing Intimacies", a multi-institutional research project located in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It intends to build new scholarship and a new generation of scholars on gender and sexuality in India and East and South Africa. The meeting was held on 5th September 2019, at the India International Centre in New Delhi.
About the Talk:
"What we don't talk about when we don't talk about love"
The need for sex-education, and a sex-positive conversation has been an urgent and necessary one in the light of cultural and political stigmatizations of and prohibitions on desire. The idea that sex and love are separated from each other and that sex is not spoken of and thus, becomes an area of shame has propelled ‘open’ conversations about sex. But in the process the conversation about romantic love remains unexplored and relatively untouched. This in fact emphasizes the schism between love and sex, between feeling and sensation. Through discussing my work on modern love and Agents of Ishq, a multimedia project on sex and desire in India, I would like to discuss the need for a radical emotional approach and vocabulary to create possibilities for a love-sex revolution.
Full transcript here: / what-we-dont-talk-abou...
About the Speaker:
Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose work mixes fiction and non-fiction to explore themes of urban life, popular culture, love, desire and gender. She publishes a weekly opinion column called "Paronormal Activity" in Sunday Midday and is the founder and creative director of Agents of Ishq, the hugely popular website about sex and desire.

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