Video: I am Trans
Playwright and performer Deen shares his story in this truly amazing video, made for TransPeopleSpeak.org
Deen is a transman of South Indian origin.
Hues may vary but humanity does not | வண்ணங்கள் வேற்றுமைப் பட்டால் – அதில் மானுடர் வேற்றுமை இல்லை
Playwright and performer Deen shares his story in this truly amazing video, made for TransPeopleSpeak.org
Deen is a transman of South Indian origin.
Orinam.net is a bilingual website (Tamil and English) associated with the Chennai-based social-support-arts-advocacy group Orinam. The site contains information on alternate sexualities and gender identities and resources for the public, media, healthcare, educational institutions, workplaces, and family members of LGBT people. Our voices – The Orinam blog features news and views, personal stories and creative writing by Queers and allies.
Calling all you creative folks out to there to suggest Tamil and English slogans for placards, posters and banners for Chennai Rainbow Pride march.
The Right to Privacy judgements most certainly include the right to one’s self-identified gender identity as upheld in NALSA v. Union of India.
That people were making this very linear connection between my request for a gender-neutral certificate and trans* identity alarmed me. To lay claim to trans* identity, in today’s world, is to lay claim to certain narratives and lived experiences that are not mine.
Chennai’s queer community mourns the loss of one of its own, a young man who took his life Sept 20, 2014. Condolence gathering on Sept 28, 2014, at Marina beach.
Poem text and video from Orinam’s Chennai Pride 2018 edition of Quilt: June 17, 2018
“Coming Out”, Vikranth Prasanna’s poem
Touching.. Courageous!
This was beautiful. I am straight and I couldn’t help appreciate this. I cried. I never cry. I cried like a small boy. I am still crying. This was amazing.