LGBTQ

Video Page: Sexuality and the Indian LGBT Movement
An Indian woman sitting in her speaking to a camera. She is wearing a green saree with red blouse, and a red bindi.

“For the first time in India, 20 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) persons in four cities open up in…

By Curated Content
December 5, 2016
Video Page: Sexuality and the Indian LGBT Movement
How young Kashmiris are finding love in the time of conflict and curfew
A young (Kashmiri) couple sitting on a bench facing backwards, looking at the garden.

The internet is playing a major role in activism in the Valley, and love and relationships too Onaiza Drabu Since…

By Curated Content
June 15, 2017
How young Kashmiris are finding love in the time of conflict and curfew
Video Page: Mere Saathi
Saathi: IIT

Saathi IIT Bombay, an LGBTQ resource group of students and staff at IIT Bombay welcomed new entrants in 2015 with…

By Curated Content
February 1, 2018
Video Page: Mere Saathi
Acceptance, Agency, and A Womens’ Hostel
a room

In a way, Mrs Chatterjee’s worst fears had been confirmed. The hostel was indeed dangerous – not because of “raging hormones”, but because wewere constantly initiating discussions and circumstances which challenged the patriarchal status quo.

By Anonymous
March 5, 2018
Acceptance, Agency, and A Womens’ Hostel
Video: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Up Queer and Invisible
Screengrab of the video which shows an animated girl, drawn in a pink outline, holding up a placard with messages that educate about queerness and invisbility.

This video series draws upon childhood and teenage memories to offer an insightful, humorous and often poignant Beginner’s Guide to Growing Up Queer and Invisible.

By Curated Content
April 2, 2018
Video: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Up Queer and Invisible
AIDS, Melancholia & Queer memory
Debanuj DasGupta with Mathew Stuart Jarret. Stewart Jarret plays the character of Belize in the play & the Bethesda Fountain is one of the key Manhattan sites recreated on stage for the play Angels in America.

In this essay, I revisit my early struggles with AIDS diagnosis during the summer of 2003. The recollections allow me to rethink how the New York cityscape and coming out about my HIV status to my parents in India shapes a racialised experience with HIV and AIDS, family relations, and transnational migration. Such a racialised experience is erased within Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.

By Debanuj DasGupta
April 16, 2018
AIDS, Melancholia & Queer memory
The Absence of a Queer ‘Mother Tongue’

Many queer Indians who converse largely in their respective regional languages find it difficult to put a name to their queer identity in their ‘mother tongue’.

By Anonymous
May 1, 2018
The Absence of a Queer ‘Mother Tongue’
Can’t We Anticipate Stonewall?
A picture from a pride parade; in the center, a woman in a black shirt holds up a pride flag, to her right, a trans woman in a bright orange saree wears a golden mask, and to her left, a woman in a green top holds up a placard with a slogan

If your one step – addressed to everyone irrespective of caste, class, gender, religion,  and sexuality –  is a giant leap for marginalised and oppressed people, Stonewall will not be far behind.

By Anupom Kumar Hazarika
July 2, 2018
Can’t We Anticipate Stonewall?
The Good Boy with ‘Unspeakable’ Desires: The Queer Testimonio of ‘Nacher Chhele’

In Nacher Chhele, a 38 year old Avijit stands outside himself, takes a long look at his past, and writes an intense testimonio, which would resonate with many middle class Bengali queer men who grew up in the pre-global, pre-Internet city of Calcutta in the 80s and 90s.

By Kaustav Bakshi
August 1, 2018
The Good Boy with ‘Unspeakable’ Desires: The Queer Testimonio of ‘Nacher Chhele’
Interview: ‘Desire is Never Straightforward. In Fact, there is Nothing Straight about Desire at All’
Picture of author Madhavi Menon. She is wearing a yellow saree.

Desire is never straightforward, and it cannot be straitjacketed – in fact, there is nothing straight about desire at all. Any issue dealing with desire, therefore, is wasted if viewed through a monochromatic lens.

By Curated Content
August 14, 2018
Interview: ‘Desire is Never Straightforward. In Fact, there is Nothing Straight about Desire at All’
Mid-Air Between Heaven and Earth

The concluding chapter reiterates the aims of the book, i.e., “to start critical conversations within the disciplines of psychology, social work, childhood studies, and family studies in India and to think about exclusions inherent in these disciplines.

By Madhu Kewalramani
August 14, 2018
Mid-Air Between Heaven and Earth
Nanette: Of Universality and Difference
Black and white picture of stand-up comic Hannah Gadsby. She has short hair and wears dark glasses.

In Nanette, Hannah Gadsby’s hour-long Netflix special that transcends the very notions of stand-up comedy, forces of reclamation, protest, and rage culminate to form a darkly hilarious but heartbreaking diatribe against patriarchy, heteronormativity, violence and marginalisation.

By Anonymous
September 4, 2018
Nanette: Of Universality and Difference
Interview – Alok Vaid-Menon
Gender non-conforming poet Alok Vaid Menon. They are dressed in a vibrant sleeveless dress, jewellery and makeup.

In an e-mail conversation with TARSHI, Alok Vaid-Menon talks about both performativity and poetic performance.

By TARSHI Team
September 4, 2018
Interview – Alok Vaid-Menon
Video Page: Baby Steps
Screengrab from "Baby Steps", a gay couple sit together in front of a laptop in an intimate pose

In the short film, Baby Steps, a seemingly mundane Skype conversation between a mother and son turns into something more.

By Curated Content
September 4, 2018
Video Page: Baby Steps
In Transit
Picture of two trains, one already present on the platform, and another approaching the platform. They are both green in colour with off-white stripes on them

I could have called it transformation instead of transitioning. But it became clear to me that transitioning does not necessarily imply a caterpillar-butterfly story but that it means a gradual acceptance of the self (and the self is ever-transitioning); of being comfortable in your own skin (even if it means shedding skin); of perfecting your act (even if it means learning a few new things).

By Rishit Wishit
September 17, 2018
In Transit
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