Tax laws are the latest frontier in queer couples’ fight for equal rights
When cis-het couples don’t pay tax on gifts they give each other, why should we, ask same-sex couples
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How queer activists platformed trans rights at the CJP protest
In conversation with artist Harshit Singh about the student agitation and why it’s time to talk about the Trans Amendment Act once more.
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Trans and intersex advocacy overlap, but they are not interchangeable. The distinction matters
In conversation with intersex activist Momo on the erasure of intersex lives, trans and intersex solidarity, and the violence of bio-essentialism.
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In India, law, language, and healthcare coalesce to ensure the exclusion of transgender persons
Excerpted from the book Transforming Rights: How Law Shapes Transgender Lives, Identity and Community in India, edited by Jayna Kothari
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How a Bajrang Dal mob disrupted a queer woman’s attempt to escape an abusive marriage
queerbeat interviewed five people closely involved with the case, a Bajrang Dal spokesperson, as well as reviewed the woman’s draft police statement and her hand-written and video statements to a Delhi-based NGO.
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India has less than 600 trans school students, shows government data
Six states and union territories have not recorded a single trans school student over the past four years.
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Less than 1,500 transgender students enrolled in India’s colleges and universities
More than half of them are studying in four states.
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“If we don’t address our differences now, they will become more suffocating later”
Sunil Mohan R on his cricketing journey, activism past and present, and his hopes for the queer future
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A breakup is threatening to transform Bengaluru Pride. What does it reveal about the queer movement?
The collective behind Bengaluru Pride has split into two factions. queerbeat examines the undercurrents that led to the split and what it reveals about the queer movement.
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Supporting queer teachers to be the teachers they needed
The Indian education system is far from queer friendly. Can the efforts of individual queer teachers counteract systemic oppression?
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What the experiences of trans men can teach us about masculinity
Equating masculinity with toxicity is a dangerous, transphobic attitude that leads us away from collective liberation.
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Understanding the queer vote in India
We conducted 32 in-depth interviews with queer people across the country to find out which political parties they voted for and why.
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