Orientation with a difference: Saathi reaches out to incoming students at IIT Bombay
Saathi, the LGBTQ group at IIT Bombay, organised a structured orientation for incoming students. Report by Aaditya Joshi, with links to resource materials.
Friends of Queers: IIT Bombay’s 2015 fresher orientation video
Saathi, IIT Bombay’s LGBTQ resource group, oriented the 2015 incoming batch students on LGBTQ issues with a video featuring allies.
A Hesitant Hug: video against homophobia and transphobia from Mumbai
On the occasion of IDAHOT 2015, student initiative Techfest and Saathi at IIT Bombray launched ‘A Hesitant Hug’, a campaign to end homophobia and transphobia.
Kashish Forward: reaching out through queer cinema at IIT-Bombay
Aaditya Joshi reports on ‘Kashish Forward’, a campus event of IIT-Bombay group Saathi on Sept 17 2014, that reached out to LGBTQ people and straight allies through cinema.
LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Service Providers
This listing attempts to compile contact information of LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Service Providers who have been recommended by clients from the LGBTIQA+ community as professionals who affirm their orientations/identities. It is Chennai-centric, but we are trying to add resources from other cities and towns in India. Note: This searchable database is provided as a free resource…
Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2023
ELEVENTH EDITION OF REEL DESIRES: CHENNAI INTERNATIONAL QUEER FILM FESTIVAL, SHOWCASES DIVERSE GENDER AND SEXUALITIES AUGUST 18-20, 2023 MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stills are available for download at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vUnmOyBYLb2jvHrljE1D5EPVClwsPGv7?usp=share_link Brochure is available here. For more information, contact 98433-73433 or 98415-57983, email [email protected] or visit www.ciqff.org. The eleventh annual edition of Reel Desires: Chennai International…
Marriage Equality: Letter to Tamil Nadu Government from LGBTQIA+ Communities
Points from LGBTQIA+ community discussion [Chennai April 23, 2023] on Marriage Equality shared with the Government of Tamil Nadu.
Our Own Hurt Us the Most: Centering Familial Violence in the lives of Queer and Trans Persons in the Marriage Equality Debates
This report is about the families that are assigned to us and those that often are the biggest road blocks to being able to live the way we want to. The families that are supposed to be spaces of nurture, care and support, turn against their own children (often at very young ages), treat them with utter disregard and violence, and force them to conform to socially accepted ideas of what is “normal” without any regard to the individual’s dignity or personhood.
Locked Down in the Time of COVID-19: Safety and Self-Care for Queer and Trans Persons
Some coping tips from community members, peer counselors and therapists
for LGBTIQA+ folks staying home in isolation and/or in abusive family situations
Minutes of third pride planning meeting for 2018: Chennai, Saturday, April 7, 2018
Third Pride Planning Meet for CRP2018 Sahodaran: 7 April 2018, 3:20 PM to 5:15 PM Day Date Event Friday June 1 Press meet (inclusive of allies such as family members and media sensitization on appropriate terminology) Saturday June 2 Play ‘Parayan Marana Kadhai’: Kattiyakari with Dwaya and Nirangal Saturday June 9 Sexual health workshops (2…