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.
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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 тАЬnormalтАЭ without any regard to the individualтАЩs dignity or personhood.
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[poem] My Name is a Spell
The database collects my name / But cannot understand it / Yet the database decides / Where I will go in this life
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[poem] Curly
Poem by Karthik Hebbar
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For endorsement: Gender nonconforming/trans/non-binary students’ Open Statement to NCERT and Education Ministry
Endorse this open statement to NCERT from gender non-binary, gender non-conforming students, former students, and trans-queer groups.
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[poem] Digital тАЬdatingтАЭ Dystopia?
What have we become in this digital age /
Staring at screens lying on our couches -
First Generation Queer South Asian Immigrant Rant
Coming out is not a one time thanksgiving dinner table announcement but a recurring repetitive struggle that can be dreadfully frightening for some. We are shedding our skin in baby steps!
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Madras Week 2020: Tales of the Queer City
Video of Madras Week 2020 online discussion on the involvement and contributions of queer and trans communities to Madras culture, social history and life: August 28, 2020.
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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 -
Minuscule Minorities, #StandWithKerala
An appeal to our rainbow communities to support ongoing relief efforts in Kerala
