India’s Sodomy Ban, Ruled Illegal in 2018, Was a British Colonial Legacy
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Shiva Has Both Male and Female Features
Images of Shiva usually show him to have an androgynous, if not feminine, appearance, yet he is a male god. Sometimes, he is actually pictured as being split down the middle, one half being the male god Shiva, the other half being his wife, Parvati. While earlier beliefs about Shiva saw him as a rough-and-tumble he-man, Hindus now see him as neither male nor female. In fact, many Hindu gods are androgynous and neither classified as male nor female. Via
Intro: Gray Sorrenti shot the SS2020 ‘Loewe Paula’s Ibiza collection’ in New Delhi. Creative Director JW Anderson describes the scene: “the protagonists are captured at private parties in Dilliwalen Havelis, riding scooters and tuk-tuks along rarely seen corners of the capital’s streets, BMXing on rooftops, and amongst members of its B-Boy subculture, creating a feeling of bonding that is not imagined, but real.”
Couple the Loewe campaign with the release of Vogue Italia’s May 2020 gender-bending collab with L’Uomo — and AOC is prompted to share a series of articles to expand the conversation within a sociological-cultural backdrop.
Relevant also is AOC’s commentary on Txema Yeste’s brilliant editorial in the recent Numero #122. ~ Anne
