Archive for the tag Culture
The most substantial thing I as an artist can ask is for the audience is to relate to my music or my work. To find relevance in people’s lives and experiences is the most excellent feeling ever.
Graphic Story: Love in the Delhi Metro [In Hindi]
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Queering Desires On Instagram: 12 Queer Erotic Art Pages You Should Insta Follow!
Erotic art based in queer lives often blurs the line between pleasure and heterosexual fetishization and objectification.
Book Review: “A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi – A Candid Biography of India’s First Transgender Principal” By Manobi Bandhopadhyay with Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey
Manobi, like most trans persons, has lived through her share of ordeals to emerge resilient. Furthermore, she has formidable credentials, with a PhD in Bengali Literature and authorship to multiple other books, magazines, and hundreds of newspaper articles.
Theatre Show: One Night Only
A regular boy searching for his father and wishing to be part of a story greater than himself, Aravan’s life changes forever on discovering he is the son of the great Pandava warrior Arjuna.
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8 LGBT Parenting Myth Busters
Homoparental/queer families are creations of love just like any other family. They are made to support, to raise and to fall back on.
Our Chosen Family: 6 Queer Indians Share Their Stories
Our chosen families are those bits of our heart that have been around when our biological families haven’t been.
Poem: A Naïve Sin
I stand still looking down at your hand holding the knife,
My body is trembling with fear but you want me to pay you with my life.
The spectators want me to plead for forgiveness in this time,
So forgive me, for I didn't know love was a crime.
Desi Queer Horror Zine: Call For Submissions
Horror is everything that doesn’t quite ‘fit in’ with societal norms; it is a celebration of our biggest fears, an acknowledgement of our realities with the volume slightly turned up.
Poem: From Bindi With Love
A piece of adhesive
Of the colour red.
The scream of a woman -
“Chakka hai ki ladki?”
Her spectacled eyes
Upon my bindi.
Who’s The Freak? A Photo Exhibition Exploring Fashion And The Politics Of Identity.
Through calling this exhibition ‘Who’s the freak’, Ahuja is placing their audience in front of the final exasperated WTF question to the cis, the hetero and the ignorant.
Not Just A ‘Tomboy’
All my three years as an undergraduate in sound school, I was the only girl in an entire batch of around 70 students. I figured I’d have no problem blending in with other boys as I always thought we were very much alike. But apparently, they didn’t see it that way.
Graphic Story: Surprise!
This Lesbian Visibility Day, we're talking about how ‘surprising’ it is that two women end up together even though they’ve obviously been going out.
My Worst Fears
As Sita grew up, she learned new things about mitochondria and Wilde and atoms and what not. She even learned where her name came from, but the one thing that always troubled her most was the mystery of why she was asked about her future partner.
Film Review: Super Deluxe
Super Deluxe steals you away for the entire show. It’s a brilliant piece of work. Unfortunately, in the theatre, I heard a few mocking laughs and snickers during the scenes with Shilpa, who is transgender.
Me, Your Desi-Drag King
A lot of people have questioned my gender identity. I have a rather dominant masculine exterior which is often mistaken for me wanting to be a man.
Poem: She
She calms me,
Like the ocean after a life in the harsh desert.
I touch her and the pulse paints a vivid picture,
In my inward eye, she’s my Austen and my Kahlo.
Gaysi Presents 2×2 Bar Nights: Flashback To The 90s
Gaysi's 2x2 Bar Night this time is scheduled on a Saturday and promises to be an open, warm and safe space for anyone and everyone to join in.
Taking The Bully By Its Horn [In Hindi]
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