I was raped
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In this heart-warming video, students of IIT-Bombay speak about their first love, including the kind that dares speak its name and break the silence around it.
Essays, poems and a short story on love for V-Day 2013
One year after coming out to her parents as trans, Brenda still finds them in denial and hoping she will return to being their son.
A short story by Mujeebur Rahman.
Musings on the fludiity of desire sparked by the author’s experiences of living in Chennai in the 1980s, with additional reflections on what this could mean for gay rights discourse that was taking root in India in the ’90s.
Everything seemed so auspicious. I was bathed in turmeric powder…