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[poem] Am I queer enough?
Poem by Illahi
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Pride Anthem, Carnatic
Pride anthem, composed and rendered by Chennai-based Abishek Chandrasekar in the rAga bEhAg.
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To My Beloved Chennai…
You are a contradiction – history tangled with progress, caution woven into care. You hold us, yes, but sometimes at armтАЩs length, with unspoken conditions pressing between us. You are a city that not just welcomes but lets people thrive – vandhaarai vaazha vaikkum Chennai – but only if we learn how to navigate you, how to create our own shelter within your vastness.
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My Gayest Dream
When we’re in the state of love, we attract love. To attract love, we must become love.
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On Being Asexual
Nothing I have ever done for anybody has been motivated by sexual desire. It sometimes seems that I canтАЩt relate to this world at all. Must I always be afraid that any friendly gesture to a person of a different sex would be interpreted as a sexual advance?
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The many transings of my gender
Poetry by Abigail Silversmith Irfan
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[poem] For Us
For Us, a poem from Visveshwar’s debut collection ‘Boy From the Poems’ (Dec 2023: Notion Press).
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[story] Strangers and Unspoken Connections
Life lessons from a stranger on a bus in Kerala.
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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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Standing Out
We must focus on how we can be better humans: not what someone wears or who they sleep with.
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