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A Guide To Affordable Mental Health Care For The Queer Community
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A Guide To Affordable Mental Health Care For The Queer Community

In a country like India where both mental health and non-binary identities are topics that are neglected despite being essential parts of an individual’s identity, it can be quite challenging to navigate through issues regarding the same. Accessibility to affordable and quality mental health services is a serious difficulty that the queer Indian population faces.
By Curated Content
July 19, 2021
A Guide To Affordable Mental Health Care For The Queer Community
A GARDEN OF ONE’S OWN
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A GARDEN OF ONE’S OWN

Therapy gives us tools and time, but the actual work of dismantling the forest is ours as we are the only persons with access to that forest. So queer affirmative therapy validates our beliefs and helps us identify the poison, cut it down, dissect it, unroot it.
By Poorva Parashar
January 4, 2021
A GARDEN OF ONE’S OWN
A Garden of One’s Own
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A Garden of One’s Own

Therapy is a space to heal and grow. It helped me to accept my identity as an anxious, cisgender, South Asian, bisexual woman. Moreover, I have come up with the perfect response next time someone asks me, “But why do you think you are bisexual?”
By Poorva Parashar
August 3, 2020
A Garden of One’s Own
A Dream of Fairness
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A Dream of Fairness

My pain becomes their profit, and the planet pays the price
By Alka Burnwal
September 18, 2025
A Dream of Fairness
#MardonWaliBaat – The Journey between ‘Listening’ and ‘Being Heard’
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#MardonWaliBaat – The Journey between ‘Listening’ and ‘Being Heard’

In the fast-paced digital world of clickbaits and instant gratification, where you can be ‘cancelled’ or ‘trending’ within the same minute, the very act of men talking to other men about alternative masculinities, has the ability to disrupt hierarchies of power, to disrupt the algorithm, to disrupt patriarchy.
By Mariyam Sara and Nida Ansari
May 19, 2025
#MardonWaliBaat – The Journey between ‘Listening’ and ‘Being Heard’
“Breathe. All is Well” — How I Dealt With My Panic Attacks
Shikha Aleya writes about her experiences with panic attacks, and travelling with her dog Dusty
“Breathe. All is Well” — How I Dealt With My Panic Attacks

I am not pleased about everything that happened, but I accept that these are my experiences. I accept that I have grown through them, built more invisible muscle. Most of all I accept that it is with the help and support of a diverse array of souls, relationships, and ordinary chuff-chuffing that I can do and be many of the things my spirit is; my life is more than the parts that panicked, and I accept and look after those bits too.
By Curated Content
November 15, 2019
“Breathe. All is Well” — How I Dealt With My Panic Attacks
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