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Comment on Sahodaran-UNESCO: Bullying of sexual/gender minority students in Tamil Nadu by Silence is NOT golden: #16DaysOfActivism with Shadhika - Shadhika

Silence is NOT golden: #16DaysOfActivism with Shadhika - Shadhika — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 06:41:43 +0000

[…] identifying outside mainstream sexual identities reported bullying incidents to school authorities (2018 study by Sahodaran, a male sexual health project, and UNESCO).Note: We could not find a comprehensive […]

Comment on Hyderabad (re)makes history with pride by Qatha: On the uses of ‘sil-batta’ to make you straight & more queer tales (part 3) | Varta Trust

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:47:11 +0000

[…] us more about the ‘YaariaN99’ conference in […]

Comment on Hyderabad (re)makes history with pride by Qatha: On the uses of ‘sil-batta’ to make you straight & more queer tales (part 2) | Varta Trust

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:43:39 +0000

[…] thought why can’t we have a conference? We had a very huge [national level] conference called ‘YaariaN99’ [possibly Hyderabad’s first major queer activist event held on February 13-14, […]

Comment on R.I.P. Shakuntala Devi, math-evangelist and ally of the queer community by Shakuntala Devi’s literary legacy went beyond numbers—homosexuality, caste, murder, astrology – https://bhartiyanews24x7.com

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 07:33:54 +0000

[…] it is the first educational book in the area of homosexuality in post-colonial India. Devi later acknowledged in an interview, which was part of the 2001 documentary For Straights only, that her failed […]

Comment on India’s LGBT activism history: early 1990s by Conversations between movements, collaborations across identities, 10 years on | Varta Trust

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:59:58 +0000

[…] had documents from the early 1990s (the Delhi-based AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan – ABVA’s 1992 demonstration against police brutality towards LGBT people) to the early 2000s (the 172nd report of the Law […]

Comment on Breaking the Binary: a LABIA research study by Beyond Marriage Equality

Beyond Marriage Equality — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:15:44 +0000

[…] queer people often find themselves at the receiving end of family violence when they are seen to challenge traditional expectations. This ‘challenge’ comes in the form of […]

Comment on Response to Law Commission of India on Uniform Civil Code by Re-imagining intimacy, re-configuring kinship: Some notes on friendship | Varta Trust

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 13:11:19 +0000

[…] friendships and other significant relationships outside the natal family in the form of a ‘legal representative’. Something has shifted in the mythological place romance holds in our lives. And while we may not […]

Comment on My Boyfriend is a Scam by Being conned on LGBTQIA+ dating apps and how to deal with it – The News Minute - Web Generation

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 23:17:26 +0000

[…] the cybercrime police for cyber extortion cases.In this blogpost for Orinam collective titled My Boyfriend is a Scam, Vinay lists several suggestions for people in such situations, from getting your bank to block the […]

Comment on Tamil Nadu gazette publishes LGBTQIA+ glossary, Aug 2022 by J

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 05:52:17 +0000

Could you point me to guides for pronouns in Tamil. Have been asking for a gender neutral Tamil pronouns for the longest time!

Comment on On learning why pronouns matter! A tribute to a friend by Rajorshi

Rajorshi — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:20:06 +0000

I wonder if your friend (with the teddy) was uncomfortable because it would have outed him or his partner. Often, as a teaching assistant, I just make it optional for students to share their pronouns. I usually stick to “they/them” when someone hasn’t specified any.