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.
Archive for the tag India
Video Release: Proud To Be More
For many of us, our queer identity is the one that is most questioned, attacked, and ridiculed - as though our lives, journeys and fights start and end with not conforming to the status quo.
She Prefers The Pronouns They
If you don't know a person's preferred pronouns, always ask, or just use they instead of he/she.
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.
Book Review “Jacob Tobia’s Sissy” – Your Essential Read For Trans Awareness Week
The book opens with Tobia's childhood in the section Kiddo, where they speak about their fixation with Barbie (and the hunky-dory Ken too!) and their curiosity about ‘pee-pees’ and 'wee-wees' if you know what I mean.
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.
Dear Queer Old Person
Convinced that she was comatose, the two girls stared at each other for a second or hundred – the squeaky titters ceased.
Does Language Have Gender? [In Malayalam]
If you or anyone you know would like to translate content for us or write for us in languages other than English, find us at gaysifamily[at]gmail[dot]com.
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.
Book Review: “The Carpet Weaver” By Nemat Sadat
Sadat’s book is a heartfelt coming-of-age story of a young boy who not only has to deal with the struggles of being gay in a conservative society but also has to survive war, starvation and intense loss while doing so.
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.
Performance Arts Event: ‘Four Play’ By Patruni Chidananda Sastry And Sajiv Palasa
A recently concluded presentation, 'Four Play' is an interactive performance art piece, curated and performed by Patruni Chidananda Sastry, a dancer and performance artist – along with theatre artist, Sajiv Palasa.
Film Review: “A Little More Blue” By Sugandha Bansal
A Little More Blue does not merely represent the suffering of trans people trapped in the wrong body, but it represents how trans people’s mental health is impacted.
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.
Book Review: ‘Criminal Love? – Queer Theory, Culture, And Politics In India’ By R. Raj Rao
Published by SAGE Publications Rao's book is a collection of nine essays strung around themes of investigating an every-person view of queer theory.
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.
Confessions
she's a habit. an 8 am class that I take, a 5 pm phone call that I make, my best/worst muse.
