Hues may vary but humanity does not | வண்ணங்கள் வேற்றுமைப் பட்டால் – அதில் மானுடர் வேற்றுமை இல்லை
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”Suitors with bow ties and roses came and went , Her eyes, however, were reserved for HER… ” – Tania.
This line from Terribly Tiny Tales inspired the following piece of art by Rajat Saini, a 22 y.o. undergraduate student in Delhi. Check out his other work on the FB page ‘श्यामश्वेत : colors of life’ here.
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Interview with Malobika, founder-member of Sappho, Kolkata, one of India’s oldest support groups for lesbian and bisexual women and transmen.
A timeline of responses to Nandini Krishnan’s 2018 book ‘Invisible Men: Inside India’s Transmasculine Network’.
Poem by Karthik Hebbar
A movie like Vishwaroopam takes us even farther back in its retrogressive portrayal of queer masculinity as deviance. Such portrayal by a mass hero will only reinforce the already prevalent hatred and prejudice against the much maligned sexual and gender minorities.
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Arvind Narrain reflects on Brazlian queer activist Marielle Franco (1979-2018) and the need to remember otherwise forgotten queer lives in the Indian context.
31st March, 2014: The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, the original…
