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.
Govt of India asks Supreme Court to clarify/modify NALSA judgement
‘Government objects to SC empowering third gender’ screamed the title…
Remembering an ally: GE Vahanvati’s unique contribution
GE Vahanvati (1949-2014) who represented the Union of India in challenging the Koushal judgement, was a champion of empathetic reasoning
Remembering GE Vahanvati, an advocate for LGBT rights in India
GE Vahanvati (1949-2014), former Attorney General of India, was a strong advocate of decriminalisation of homosexuality,
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.
First Love: a video by IIT-B students
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.
Queering film festivals – #CIQFF2014 – from the audience
Until main stream cinema makes a movie portraying a Queer…
Film review: ‘The World Before Her’
Review of ‘The World Before Her’, a must-watch for those interested in documentary films and for all equality supporters, including queer people and feminists.
Just concluded: Historic meet of Transmasculine, Intersex and Intergender people, Mumbai 2014
Sampoorna convened the first-ever event of this kind in South Asia: the Sampoorna Transmasculine, Intersex and Intergender meet in Mumbai, May 30 – June1, 2014
Sampoorna Rejoinder to Jackuline Mary verdict
We are very happy that the judgment also strongly condemns forced sex testing and recognises the bodily integrity of persons with intersex variations. However, we are concerned about the conflation of the categories of ftm and intersex.