Poem: Half My Love Poems
Video from Airplane Poetry Movement’s Poetry Performance: Taboo! at High Spirits in Pune on February 22, 2015.
Hues may vary but humanity does not | வண்ணங்கள் வேற்றுமைப் பட்டால் – அதில் மானுடர் வேற்றுமை இல்லை
Video from Airplane Poetry Movement’s Poetry Performance: Taboo! at High Spirits in Pune on February 22, 2015.
Manasi Nene is the founder of the Pune Poetry Slam. She is - as of April 2015 - a student at the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education. Manasi loves anything that questions dominant culture, and writes about it. Currently, her only aim in life is to meet Carrie Brownstein. Manasi can be found on Twitter at @manasi_nene.
poem by Priyank Pillai
The database collects my name / But cannot understand it / Yet the database decides / Where I will go in this life
I was in the unofficial ‘gay’ compartment of a local train coming home from CST, Mumbai. His gaze locked into mine in that timeless ritual of acknowledgement of our unspoken desires.
L.Ramakrishnan’s poem “Conversation with parents”
In this hangout, some of Orinam’s members who are gay, talk about their respective journeys of realizing and accepting their sexuality and their coming out stories.
Transcript and audio recording of Apphia Kumar’s talk on queer youth activism: LGBT panel of the Harvard India 2014 conference, Feb 16, 2014
Wonderful!
‘Half my love poems will not be heard until all the love is treated equally!’
Brilliant !