This part of the project involves creation of material in accessible Hindi on issues of sexuality. The material will be aimed at NGO staff members and activists linked to movements who are working at the community level. It can also be read by teachers and others with higher levels of education.

The materials will seek to identify and analyse the norms governing sexuality, including the linkages with gender, caste, class, religion and disability. The material will also address gender transgression – i.e. challenging rules that seek to ensure that those who are biologically women, look and behave in the way that women are ‘meant to’ and that those who are born biological men are ‘masculine’.

The material will actively draw upon life stories as a means of raising and building an understanding of issues. The material will also draw upon existing cultural practices and spaces. A start has been made by an effort to collect songs sung during marriages and festivals in a part of Bundelkhand, in U.P.

Another important dimension of the material will be the linkages between issues of sexuality and the community work, including in the areas of violence against women, health and education.

While being rooted in experience, the material will also draw upon emerging theoretical work in the area of sexuality, including engaging with areas that are being debated, such as those related to the strengths and limitations of identity politics. It will also draw upon research in the area of sexuality.