UK and India
She/Her
2021 Cohort
Ipsita is a feminist illustrator, researcher & gender advocate from India. She explores various themes of sexuality, pleasure, power and collective care through creative methodologies. She is a strong believer of hope-based communications and loves to capture a shared humanitarian worldview through her art. She currently works with UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report on research around sexuality education.
100 Stories of Pleasure 
Ipsita is a feminist illustrator, researcher & gender advocate from India. She explores various themes of sexuality, pleasure, power and collective care through creative methodologies. She is a strong believer of hope-based communications and loves to capture a shared humanitarian worldview through her art. She currently works with UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report on research around sexuality education.
During the Pleasure Fellowship, Ipsita worked along Rhiana and Leeza on a project called ‘100 Stories of Pleasure’. Through their work, they compiled very diverse and sexy stories from all over the world around pleasure. Ipsita remains engaged to The Pleasure Project through different activities. She has recently helped with illustrations for the systematic review and meta analysis co-developed by The Pleasure Project and WHO. She has also illustrated and envisioned ‘Pleasure Town’ on The Pleasure Principles. Additionally, she has done illustrations for an online advocacy module on pleasure-based sexual health for IPPF. Ipsita has collaborated along other pleasure fellows, like Leeza and Aida, for their own projects.
Ipsita is currently working for her Master’s degree in Global Education Policy at the University of Glasgow. Recently, Ipsita has been working along with UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report on research around sexuality education and has contributed on a series of projects and illustrations for The Pleasure Project, including making illustrations for the systematic review and meta analysis research conducted by The Pleasure Project and WHO and an illustration on ‘Pleasure Town’ on The Pleasure Principles.
Highlights
100 Stories of Pleasure is from a desire to undo the silencing that stifles discussion on pleasure and bring about sex positive, joyful discussions on pleasure.
In most cultures and societies today, we are taught from a young age that to talk about sex and pleasure is uncomfortable, uncivilized, unladylike, unacceptable – the list goes on. When we do talk about sex, at school, at home, or in a health care setting, we often receive the message that sex is dangerous, that you will get an STI or fall pregnant... and you will die (quote Coach Car from Mean Girls)! Why are we never told how pleasurable sex can be! 100 Stories of Pleasure aims to collect and curate a digital anthology of pleasure positive stories from 100 pleasure enthusiasts around the world!
“When I started it, I had a very brief understanding of pleasure, and I didn't have maybe a holistic understanding of it. With the discussions and specially when we had those break out rooms - where we discussed these topics - it was really interesting because I could understand how to talk about it in a more evidence-based way”.
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