Poem: A Transwoman’s Apology
I sit in my room every day now
Waiting for your call
To hear an “i love you” from you
With ‘you’ being all of me.
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Three Little Pigs – A Queer Re-telling
This is the story of three little pigs,
One built a house of hay, and the other of twigs,
And the mightiest, most pompous of the three,
Built a house of bricks under a Banyan tree.
Love Is An Ever-Evolving State Of Being
Two people came along that sparked off another incredible alchemy within me. A messy change that scooped the confetti off the ground and merrily tossed it into the air again.
Gender Representation By Allies In Media
As a cisgender person, I also know that representation of people with other gender identities is rare. As a writer, it is one of my responsibilities, I believe, to depict a diverse group of people and make them feel visible, something that a lot of us did not have at a younger age.
My Body Is Not An Error
Intersex people spend a lot of their lives doing this emotional labor for others because they are inherently responsible to be born an error.
Hansel And Gretel: A Queer Re-telling
Gigantic, and covered in striped rainbow tiers,
The house was called, “Safe Space for Our Fellow Queers”
A wondrous haven, a serendipitous find,
Here, Gretel could love freely and Hansel could bind.
Anirban Ghosh’s Inktober Series
Inspired by official prompts from #Inktober, which included suggestive words like #Sling, #Wild, #Ride, #Catch, #Ripe, etc. – Ghosh decided to give his illustrations a kinky twist.
Fan-Fiction: Crybaby
Tae struggles to breathe. The air from his lungs rushes out as if escaping him. A pool of red grows larger and larger under him, and he feels it through his skin.
Welcome To The Land Of Desi Queers
Understand that the only time you can experience and express your authentic gender identity, is during college functions or your behen ki shaadi, when clothes and cosmetics suddenly adopt a universal tenor.
Featured– In Conversation With The Hosts Of “Dyking Out”.
In honour of their 100th episode, which aired on September 24th, 2019 – the producers of Dyking Out managed to snag an episode with comedian and bisexual “dykon” (dyke icon), Margaret Cho.
One Secret Down
It's been on my mind
For a month or two now
I'm not any different from who I used to be,
Just one secret down.
Dear Beloved.
As a kid, I wanted to be the strongest girl in class; I wanted to hand-wrestle better than any of the boys, and have them stare at me in admiration. They did. I could beat all of them in a single sitting.
Fear In, Fear Out: An Interactive Zine-Making Workshop
On the 19th of October, Gaysi Family has put together a day of exploration and creation around a theme we love and have been working around for and since our horror zine, Normal.
How To Not Be Offensive – A Guide For The Average Non Queer Person
Follow these simple rules, and you’ll never have to worry about being labeled ‘offensive’.
Desi Non-Binary Artist Teenasai aka GrapeGuitar Box Talks Indie Music, Coming Out, Mental Health & More
From growing up learning Carnatic music to launching their YouTube channel performing covers to finally becoming a full-time indie-pop artist, Teenasai's journey is a celebration for the desi queer community.
Poem: Wild And Windswept
I am taught by these women
fortunate enough to have had them raise me
whether in my house or oceans away
across time
[Pre-Order NOW] Indian Queer Horror Zine “NORMAL” And Get FREE Delivery
The idea behind NORMAL was to not only pay homage to the genre of horror – from some of its cult tropes, to taking it in extreme spaces – but do it while holding on to an inherently Indian, desi, voice.
Film Review: “If You Dare Desire” By Debalina Majumder
If You Dare Desire (or Abar Jaadi Ichcha Kardo) directed by Debalina Majumder, wishes a hopeful trajectory of Swapna and Sucheta’s life, one where they do not leave a six-page suicide letter but run away from their village to be together.
All Poets Have A Sad Story
If I wasn’t feeling like shit because I was turned on by girls (one girl in particular), I’m sure I would have found something else to hate myself for. I was young, female, loud, and had a body. Society does this to you. It moulds you till you are all soft woundable spots, and then it makes you kick yourself.
A Beginners’ Guide To Being A Bisexual Muslim
It’s a chilly, Friday evening when Maulana – with his wide, expressive eyes and ochre, paan-stained teeth – announces that Islam considers the marriage of a man and a woman to be a contract. You giggle and blush, unaccustomed to conversations about the M-word.
