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Worlds Within Queer Worlds: Presence, Politics and Diversity
People marching at queer pride, with colourful clothes on

There is no singular way of being queer or performing queerness. We are all products of converging and diverging histories and our queerness is shaped by forces tangible and intangible in the everyday.

By Sohini Chatterjee
May 1, 2019
Worlds Within Queer Worlds: Presence, Politics and Diversity
Worlds Within Queer Worlds: Presence, Politics And Diversity

Many among us are called names, are greeted with aggressive taunts and jeers on the very streets we boldly occupy at least once every year,so we go on living docilely until the next Pride, when performative reclamation of spaces becomes possible.

By Sohini Chatterjee
January 2, 2020
Worlds Within Queer Worlds: Presence, Politics And Diversity
Why Drag?
A drag queen dressed in a long dress and with a red wig and makeup

In my 27 years of existence, I’ve embodied various personas and roles. Even today, I behave slightly differently in the office, around parents, at a party and when I’m alone in my room. In the mornings I’m often a lawyer, whereas during evenings I become an artist.

By Curated Content
May 15, 2019
Why Drag?
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
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
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
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
The Metro and Desires
A picture of the Delhi metro

People in the city move from their homes to their workplaces and back to their homes. The production of this everyday rhythm of the city makes people accustomed to the sexual overtones that come with it.

By Manvendra
August 1, 2019
The Metro and Desires
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’
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’
Short Film: Oruvannukku Oruththi? (A Man For a Woman?)
A still from the film 'Oruvannukku Oruththi'

Our sexuality is often in flux – being manoeuvred (sometimes in ways we cannot control) by the crashing waves of societal expectations, circumstances, and our own choices and experiences. But the world continues to uphold a fixed, rigid idea of sexuality, and continues to confine us within this idea, and therein lies the conflict.

By Curated Content
August 1, 2019
Short Film: Oruvannukku Oruththi? (A Man For a Woman?)
Sexuality: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
an image of a rainbow pride flag being carried by a large crowd

Sexual rights include the right to express one’s sexuality freely, without discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, and to have access to provisions in the legal framework that are all-inclusive and offer protection whenever the need arises.

By Sanya Talwar
December 2, 2019
Sexuality: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
Queer Fanfiction and the Possibility of Queer Happy Endings
fanart of harry and draco from harry potter, reimagined as a queer couple

Fanfiction was more than just writing your own stories about the characters or the setting of your favourite book or TV show; it was a questioning of the dominant mainstream pop culture narrative as a whole.

By Rohini Banerjee
December 15, 2018
Queer Fanfiction and the Possibility of Queer Happy Endings
Not Just A Portrait Of A Lady On Fire…
A still from the film 'portrait of a lady on fire'

As the fire rages on and licks of flames get higher and higher, the burning desire, tension and sexual chemistry between the two rises to a crescendo. Heloise gets so consumed that a part of her dress catches fire, but it is quickly put out by the other women present there.

By Anubha Sarkar
December 2, 2019
Not Just A Portrait Of A Lady On Fire…
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
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