With the decriminalization of homosexuality in 2018, it was taken for granted that India’s largely anti-LGBT climate would gradually change itself. Although the country has taken baby steps towards progress, …
NCERT Scraps Teacher Training Manual for Transgender Children Read More »
“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” – Marsha P. Johnson Pride Month has been celebrated across the globe for several decades now. Every year …
Pride Archive: A Chronicle of Queer History and the Birth of Pride Month Read More »
The taboo surrounding menstrual hygiene hangs like a dark cloud above India’s head. Sedimentation of generations’ worth of myth, superstition and a general dearth of awareness, specifically in the country’s …
‘The Crimson Project’, and the battle against menstrual taboo Read More »
Even today, conversion therapy is largely used on queer people to, as the urban lingo goes, ‘pray the gay away.’ Quite simply put, ‘queer conversion therapies’ are pseudoscientific practices used …
Queer Conversion Therapy in India- Inception and Aftermath Read More »
For the past few months now, Parvathi’s life has been a flurry of arbitrary violence. (Al Jazeera)The nationwide lockdown across India has forced the country to shut their doors to …
Domestic Violence: Lockdown and its After-Effects Read More »
Nearly 80 years after the demise of the genre, the lesbian pulp fiction phenomenon that gripped the mid-20th century seems now both ridiculous and sad. The overbearing melodrama of the …
The group had initially emerged as a collective protest against the French law supporting same-sex marriage in the year 2012. In the first year, about 200,000 people gathered to protest …
For several months now, a strange stillness seems to have gripped the red-light areas in India. While the maxi-clad women still hang about doors, ready to beckon customers in, their …
