Let us strengthen our ties with trans and non-binary community members who have proactively worked to create a safe world for everyone, be it through zany artworks, heart-wrenching life experiences, valuable tips, or the power of humor.
By NOFILTERSASSY Apr 1 2020 |
I took 25 years to reclaim my womanhood in a world that militantly tried to make me believe I was a man. This lie was declared at birth and reinforced throughout childhood, at home, at school, in short, in every institution that was meant for my development.
By NOFILTERSASSY Mar 31 2020 |
the giggle bubbling at the edge of her throat and eyes glinting with mischief
figures can't encompass the unadulterated joy of playing a prank
By Yashvi Peeti Mar 23 2020 |
The thing I have noticed clearly and have heard from other queer people is that the spaces with cishet moderators often have an air of safety being at least partially compromised, facing ‘cishet-splaining’ of queer issues to downright domination of queer spaces.
By Abigail Mar 14 2020 |
Don’t get me wrong,
My fight is not with that woman, I am just a different kind of woman.
By Gagan Feb 27 2020 |
It's ironic that we were just talking about borders in class that day. Invisible borders. The rope was a physical manifestation of the border between the crowd of men and women, and me, a person who was neither.
By queerphiliac Feb 25 2020 |
During the Colonial period, emerged the beginning of an era of unnerving portrayal of art on stage which marked almost a revolutionary growth of theatre companies all around the country. While predominantly, theatre became the mode of entertainment for the upper elite crust of the population, ‘jatras’ or ‘nautankis’ swept over the masses.
By Aritra Sarkar Feb 20 2020 |
The L Word, problematic as it was, helped me amongst many other young queer millennials discover and/or accept their sexualities.
By Nikita Saxena Feb 18 2020 |
Watch Sanchita and Bharat, Chaitak's parents in this adorable story of acceptance, love and great lip colour.
By Aritra Sarkar Feb 17 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 |
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 city of joy had its first pride, also India's first-ever pride, in the year 1999. It was called the Friendship Walk. We have certainly come a long way since then, with hundreds of people attending this year's pride.
By Raqeeb Dec 31 2019 |
He says things to me, he does things to me.
Shh, don’t tell them, we’ll be embarrassed.
Two loveless souls trying to fill each other’s voids.
We make love, and tame those devils.
Animals we were, but don’t you see that this is our way of love?
By Mandar Gupte Dec 30 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 |
Although this book is a recommended read for anyone interested in sex research, it’s important to remember that the nature of sex research differs depending on disciplinary focus.
By Kanav Narayan Sahgal Dec 17 2019 |
As a neurodivergent queer person, I have always had problems with sudden input of triggering content.
By Abigail Nov 30 2019 |
Jyothi and Purushi, artists from Aravani Art Project tell us how how they are proud to be more than the society's made-up versions of their worth.
By Pooja Nair Nov 28 2019 |
This article has been drafted with inputs from Philip C. Philip, a Delhi-based genderqueer social activist who currently works with the Human Rights Law Network on transgender initiatives.
By NOFILTERSASSY Nov 26 2019 |
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.
By Abigail Nov 20 2019 |
If you don't know a person's preferred pronouns, always ask, or just use they instead of he/she.
By Pooja Nair Nov 14 2019 |
