LGBTQ
हम ‘टेकीज़’ के शुक्रगुज़ार हैं
आज सोशल मीडिया प्लैटफ़ॉर्मस के रूप में पूरी दुनिया हमारी मुट्ठी में है, और मुझे इस बात का एहसास है कि काफ़ी हद तक मैंने इस ताक़त को हल्के में लिया है।
By Srishti Sarkar
December 18, 2023
एक ‘क्वीयर’ मातृभाषा का अभाव
पूरे देश में ऐसे कई क्वीयर लोग होंगे जो अपनी ‘मातृभाषा’ में अपनी क्वीयर पहचान को एक नाम देने में नाकामयाब रहे हैं।
By Anonymous
June 18, 2024
इच्छाओं की ओर मटरगश्ती
आख़िर डिजिटल माहौलों पर अपना हक़ जताना… मटरगश्ती ही तो है, ख़ासकर अगर वे माहौल वासना, रोमांस, सेक्स, और आनंद पर केंद्रित हों।
By Bishakha Datta
December 18, 2023
Worlds Within Queer Worlds: Presence, Politics and Diversity
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
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
Why Drag?
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
Video: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Up Queer and Invisible
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
Video Page: Sexuality and the Indian LGBT Movement
“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: Mere Saathi
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: Baby Steps
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
The Metro and Desires
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
January 11, 2024
The Metro and Desires
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 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
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
Short Film: Oruvannukku Oruththi? (A Man For a Woman?)
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