trans identities

Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
A still from a 2010 film 'Just Another Love Story'. A middle-aged man dressed in brown kurta-pajama is bowing as if in courtsey to a woman who is wearing heavy jewellery. She is holding a glass of wine or water in one hand, and chinese fan in another. She is wearing a big red bindi, dark mehroon lipstick, and kajal.
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity

By Anonymous for Cake: A while back, when I was toying with the idea of coming out to my parents…
By Curated Content
August 16, 2017
Growing Up In A Bengali Household, How My Language Failed My Queer Identity
Brushstrokes: Alok Vaid-Menon’s Stunning Trans Attire
A right profile of Alok Vaid-Menon with a stub, wearing red lipstick, yellow nosering, big golden and black earrings, and hair parted by the side - with right side "manly" hair, and left - longer and curlier.
Brushstrokes: Alok Vaid-Menon’s Stunning Trans Attire

Alok Vaid-Menon is one half of the trans South Asian performance duo from New York, DarkMatter. Vaid-Menon was gender-assigned male at birth, identifies as transfeminine (that is, identifies with femininity to a greater extent than with masculinity) and prefers the pronouns ‘they’ and ‘their’.
By Curated Content
August 2, 2016
Brushstrokes: Alok Vaid-Menon’s Stunning Trans Attire