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Mar 27, 2024

Access intimacy in therapy shelters queer disabled hope

By
Anna Maria
What access intimacy is and how some therapists are incorporating it in their practice to make it inclusive of queer and disabled people.
Mar 13, 2024

How a trans woman found herself through her chosen families

By
Sejal Patel
Muskan was stifled by her biological family. Her chosen families, despite their transience, helped her grow
Mar 6, 2024

Where do the quiet gays go?

By
Shruti Sunderraman
Not all queerness is loud. Quiet queerness has always been here.
Feb 14, 2024

Caste under the quilt

By
Dhiren Borisa and Akhil Katyal
A Dalit-Queer critique of Lihaf recovers a world of meaning lost in its translation, reminding us that desirability is shaped by caste.
Dec 21, 2023

Why India’s trans people want horizontal reservation

By
Mohsina Malik and Ashish Kumar Kataria
Systemic discrimination deprives trans people of education and employment. Horizontal reservation promises a foot in the door.
Dec 13, 2023

Why gay men in India turn to chemsex

By
Joshua Muyiwa
Lack of support and inclusion within queer communities can drive some gay men seeking intimacy into rooms of drug-fuelled sex.
Nov 18, 2023

How I transformed my body by becoming my own fairy godmother

By
Aniruddha Mahale
Six months, sobriety, and perseverance — the true story of my transformation, from flab to abs
Nov 16, 2023

100 years of representing same sex intimacy in Hindi literature

By
Chintan Girish Modi
On the Edge offers a fascinating window into the evolving literary representation of same-sex desire in India.
Nov 7, 2023

How Kinshuk Gupta queers Hindi literature

By
Chintan Girish Modi
Doctor and writer Kinshuk Gupta on his debut collection of Hindi short stories about queer life in India and challenges of representing LGBTQ+ stories in Hindi publishing
Oct 31, 2023

How Manipur’s ethnic violence ripped a queer friendship apart

By
Schulu Duo
The collapse of a deep Meitei–Kuki friendship shows how Manipur’s nascent queer movement is fraying, threatening its hard-won gains in the violence-torn Indian state.
Oct 24, 2023

Iqbal Ali on Faith and Relearning History Through Queer Heritage Walks

By
Jaishree Kumar
Walking between the narrow bylanes of Old Delhi, Iqbal Ali leads queer heritage walks to revisit and rewrite the city’s heritage through a queer lens, and what Indian history owes queer persons.
Oct 17, 2023

The very queer cookery of food in India

By
Saachi D’Souza
How queer communities in India build and maintain their heritage through food
Oct 10, 2023

A queer coming of age set in 90s India, with a mythological edge

By
Kinshuk Gupta
A novel exploration of consent, intimacy, love and acceptance in Shastri Akella's dazzling debut The Sea Elephants
Oct 3, 2023

Living and loving in the absence of sex and romance

By
Priyanka Chakrabarty
Aromantic and asexual people are doubly invisible — both in the cishet and queer worlds.
Aug 17, 2023

Agency and vulnerability of hijra lives in rural Odisha

By
Chintan Girish Modi
Vaibhav Saria’s book Hijras, Lovers, Brothers, opens a crucial conversation about where hijras live under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella.
Aug 2, 2023

The untamed gaze of Fatima Asghar on loss and belonging

By
Saurabh Sharma
Through the lens of three Muslim-American children, When We Were Sisters sits the poignant intersection of grief, South Asian queer identity, and growing up too soon
Jul 21, 2023

Queer Christians in India cautiously rebuild relationships with their churches

By
Joshua Muyiwa
Driven away by anti-homosexual stigma, some queer Indian Christians are slowly returning to the fold – helped by some churches’ efforts to make safe spaces for them
Jun 6, 2023

Queer Literature for Children is Changing Minds in India

By
Chintan Girish Modi
Indian parents and community libraries are turning to queer literature for children to help them be sensitive to varied sexual and gender identities
May 9, 2023

Onir on Strengthening Queer Gaze in Cinema

By
Anmol Arora
The award-winning director of critically-acclaimed films like “I Am” rejects the cisgender-heteronormative gaze and advocates for queer narratives told by queer people themselves.
Apr 18, 2023

Seen-Unseen

By
Riddhi Dastidar
In cities like Lucknow and Varanasi, multiple barriers prevent queer women from accessing safe mental healthcare. Some of them turn to their community for comfort.
Jan 30, 2023

Long Shadows in the Sunset

By
Vijayta Lalwani
With limited support structures, India’s LGBTQIA+ community has to work harder to plan for ageing and infirmity.
Nov 22, 2022

No Place Like Home

By
Manu Moudgil
Transgender persons in India constantly negotiate their identities with the spaces they grow up in, live in, or move through in search of a home within and outside.

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