Telling Our Stories
“Telling Our Stories” – Sivagami Subbaraman [Talks given at various Washington DC Asian and S. Asian LGBTQ community organizations]
Queering (my) Bharatanatyam
After the concert when I went to do my pranaams to Ma, her foster son remarked to her in Bangla, Ma! Look at this child! What bhakti! She looked into my eyes while she answered him, No! It is more than Bhakti. I was glad someone understood it and my eyes went watery.
Yet Another Tale Of Love
Despite where we are with each other, he still is my favorite “Murattu Payal” and the very thought of him still brings a smile on my face.
Poem : Symbols
Tribute to Christy & Rukmani
From the closet to the Community – Part 1
Here’s what I would like to see your generation add to this movement. Grow the movement beyond the small number of us on these lists. Go beyond the big cities. Go beyond the web. Go beyond the English press. Say you are gay and say it as loudly and proudly and as often as you can.
On Faith and Homosexuality
Love child narrates how he reconciled his sexuality with his Christian faith.
Queering Gender
Queering Gender – Transliberation and Our Lesbigay Movements (Article that appeared in Trikone Magazine. July issue. 14(3): 6-8 & 18)
From Academia to America
Despite the existence of desi queer collectives and communities here in DC, the responses and reactions of many Americans (both white and black people) to the visible presence of a queer person coming from India (me, in this case) have been a wee bit strange for me.
Game’s Up
It is very unfortunate that the first, open representation of homosexuality in Tamil movies should happen this way, writes Aniruddhan Vasudevan