Leeza Mangaldas - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Sessions

Day 1
7:15 pm
Gandhada Gudi

The Sex Book

Leeza Mangaldas with Gayatri Gill

Bio

Leeza Mangaldas is the author of The Sex Book (published by HarperCollins) and India’s foremost sex education content creator. She established her now immensely popular sex-ed platforms on YouTube and Instagram in 2017 hoping to help normalize conversations around sexuality, sexual health, gender and the body. Her videos now reach millions of people in India and around the world, daily. She also hosts ‘The Sex Podcast’, a Spotify exclusive, in Hindi. She is a UN Women Ally, as well as the recipient of The Pleasure Project Fellowship.

She has won several awards for her work, including Sexual Health Influencer of the Year 2021–22 at the Cosmopolitan India Blogger Awards, and has featured on GQ’s list of Most Influential Young Indians in 2021 and 2022.

Leeza studied English literature and visual art at Columbia University with a focus on gender and sexuality. She lives in Goa with her dog, Mouse. The Sex Book is her first book.