The many transings of my gender
Poetry by Abigail Silversmith Irfan
Hues may vary but humanity does not | வண்ணங்கள் வேற்றுமைப் பட்டால் – அதில் மானுடர் வேற்றுமை இல்லை
Poetry by Abigail Silversmith Irfan
For Us, a poem from Visveshwar’s debut collection ‘Boy From the Poems’ (Dec 2023: Notion Press).
Reflections on the Pope’s announcement by Ruby Almeida, Indian-origin queer activist, and chair of LGBT+ Catholics, Westminster, UK.
Responding to Prasanna’s petition, Madras High Court has asked for the Tamil Nadu government to consider the proposal for a Deed of Family Association to protect the rights of LGBTQIA+ couples.
Life lessons from a stranger on a bus in Kerala.
We urge community members, service providers (health, education, livelihood, legal) and policy professionals to understand the issues specific to trans men as well as cross-cutting issues, in order to ensure truly inclusive services and policies. We urge that diverse community representation be ensured in consultations for policy development.
Dr. Anirudh Kala’s reflections on Indian psychiatry’s chequered relationship with homosexuality and conversion therapies.
Points from LGBTQIA+ community discussion [Chennai April 23, 2023] on Marriage Equality shared with the Government of Tamil Nadu.
This report is about the families that are assigned to us and those that often are the biggest road blocks to being able to live the way we want to. The families that are supposed to be spaces of nurture, care and support, turn against their own children (often at very young ages), treat them with utter disregard and violence, and force them to conform to socially accepted ideas of what is “normal” without any regard to the individual’s dignity or personhood.
The database collects my name / But cannot understand it / Yet the database decides / Where I will go in this life