Breaking Binaries
Angad navigates a gender-bent path in a thoroughly unbendable profession.
Gee Semmalar on Trans Health Care
Barriers transgender people face in accessing basic healthcare and gender-affirmative interventions. TransForm conference, Dec 2016, CLPR, Bangalore
Queering the Red: Asmita Sarkar, Jadavpur University
Asmita Sarkar represents LGBTIQ+ issues as a candidate for student elections at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal.
The making of India’s first disability-accessible Pride: Namma Pride, Bengaluru, 2016
Experiences and lessons from making Namma Pride (Bengaluru, 2016) accessible to persons with disability.
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It took me 27 years to admit I wasn’t straight.
The biggest exam of my life: Bubbly comes out to family in Chennai
Bubbly writes to her parents and sister in Chennai, explaining why she cancelled her engagement.
A teacher’s rewards
My law students’ group work turned out to be a reward in the otherwise daunting journey of my attempts to sensitise the campus community on LGBT issues.
Ondede report on human rights violations against transgender people in Karnataka
Prerana Kudur from Ondede and Gowthaman Ranganathan from Alternative Law Forum have compiled powerful testimonies of transgender people in Karnataka.
‘The smartphone freed me’: a journey of dating as a transwoman
In which Nadika describes how Second Life, a smart phone, and dating sites helped her explore dating as a transwoman.
Rethinking gender and language in the face of privilege
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.