Hues may vary but humanity does not | வண்ணங்கள் வேற்றுமைப் பட்டால் – அதில் மானுடர் வேற்றுமை இல்லை
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A simple yet powerful It Gets Better video by Destiny aka DesiGirl58. In this video Destiny talks about realizing her identity, coming out to her mother, the hatred she faced and how things got better for her.
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Videocast of panel discussion on queer and women’s representation in mainstream cinema: Feb 18, 2017, Hyderabad Queer Film Festival.
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.
*Trigger alert* A queer man speaks about surviving rape.
Vinodhan follows up on his post on living with depression by sharing how he copes with it.
“We need to fight all out against all institutionalized oppressions of human right to freedom of choice and self-expression – unabashed, without any compromise and fear” says Anis Ray Chaudhuri, in response to Neel’s “A Critique of Pride”. Read the full post.
Poem text and video from Orinam’s Chennai Pride 2018 edition of Quilt: June 17, 2018
