As an openly gay person, I am truly frightened of what is happening in the country. The CAB-NRC puts every minority, religious or otherwise, in the line of fire. Part of me wonders whether the overturning of Section 377 was a mere fluke before the country began to irrevocably burn.
By Nikita Saxena Jan 21 2020 |
It didn’t take me a while to understand why this tweet against him started trending. Now I can connect the dots: Kaushal made them — the upper-caste, heterosexual and patriarchal regime — uncomfortable by being a Dalit, queer and, on top of that, being from JNU, now DSE.
By Saurabh Sharma Jan 20 2020 |
I boarded the Queer Express in June 2016- it was the first time I considered the idea that the reason I felt nervous around pretty girls, and always felt a guilty excitement at the thought of reading lesbian fan-fiction- was because I experience attraction to women.
By Asfiyah Jan 16 2020 |
In person– or on the laptop screen as we talk– Sufi is warm and brilliant, much like her Instagram username, @sufi.sun. She is articulate and reflective, determined to say the right things, thinking over her answers carefully each time.
By Saachi Gupta Jan 13 2020 |
To my astonishment, and fiendish delight, I witnessed a sight unbeknown to me. A man wearing a… saree? A spurt of giggles escaped my mouth as I prodded my mother, and pointed conspicuously towards the window.
By Asfiyah Jan 7 2020 |
The attack on Jamia was not only a politically relevant event for me, but it was also a personal trauma caused even in absence. I was not inside the campus when the incidents transpired, but from what I have heard from friends, it violated the right to safety and equality.
By Raqeeb Jan 6 2020 |
Come January 25th, you’ll be pitting your hitting prowess against other queers who are baddy bad asses.
By Events Updates Jan 3 2020 |
I started college and along with that came new people, new stories, new ideas. Suddenly I had a friend who was thinking about transitioning, exchange students who didn’t fall into the binary segregation and even a gay couple in their fifties giving us a talk about gender and sex dynamics. But this isn’t when everything changed, it changed when a girl with dimples and superhero t-shirts told me she liked me.
By Sayuri Jan 2 2020 |
At the macro level, Brinson postulated that the dominant social imaginary surrounding homosexuality changed twice in the U.S: from mental illness to deviant behavior between 1969 and 1974 and from deviant behavior to collective identity between 1987 and 1992.
By Kanav Narayan Sahgal Dec 30 2019 |
Here’s a guide to coming out – as compiled from an amalgamation of my personal experience, the experiences of people I know, and some elementary research.
By Asfiyah Dec 26 2019 |
She stayed quiet for a few seconds, before sighing, "I just– I thought they'd call, I suppose. My parents. It's silly to hope, but I couldn't help it."
By Saachi Gupta Dec 24 2019 |
She spoke of songs, music, rock and Cobain
She spoke of boys, home, and love
I listened
By Rachelle Bharathi Chandran Dec 23 2019 |
now that the private is political
am i a liberal because i don't kink shame myself
or because i go around calling marx "karl daddy"
By Nakul Grover Dec 16 2019 |
You like being around people – you like the way their hair curls when it grows too long, and the crinkles that make themselves at home around the corners of their eyes when they smile wide enough.
By Asfiyah Dec 14 2019 |
He felt completely at ease now and lay down comfortably. I sat down beside him and he promptly started showing me photos on his phone. The very first one he showed me was of his nephew – sister’s son – who was born that very day!
By SimpleArt Dec 13 2019 |
You are the object.
She comes and asks me who I am
Asks me to grip harder.
When the moon is unreachable
I push myself into the breachable
Her eyes feel my insides and suddenly
I am nobody.
By Q Dec 12 2019 |
Here are 8 things we can all do on Human Rights Day this year – and hopefully, continue to practise for the rest of the year.
By Asfiyah Dec 11 2019 |
You come in less than a minute after I do
But always after me
And I wish you'd stay for a while and talk about the day- your day with me
But the line goes dead soon after
By Dhruv Dec 9 2019 |
It’s essential to account for the fact that a vast majority of queer individuals in India are born into humble middle-class backgrounds, thereby, restricting their ability to invest large amounts of money into gender neutral clothing or queer-specific products.
By Asfiyah Dec 2 2019 |
As a neurodivergent queer person, I have always had problems with sudden input of triggering content.
By Abigail Nov 30 2019 |
