Documentary Highlights the Struggles of Kashmir’s Trans Community
A new documentary by Red FM, that premiered on August 5th on Youtube, brings forth the struggles and difficulties faced by the transgender community of Kashmir
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Crowdfunding for Trans Community of Kashmir
Sonzal Welfare Trust is working towards providing 150 families with dry ration kits to enable them to survive for the next two months.
Conversion Therapy Experience of a Kashmiri Lesbian
After Hibba came out to her parents, she was forcibly taken to a local faith healer to exorcise the spirit of homosexuality.
He chanted many Holy vers... Read More...
An Interview with Dr. Aijaz Ahmad, a Trans Rights Activist From Kashmir
Dr. Aijaz Ahmad Bund, a researcher, a social worker and a LGBT activist from Srinagar, was in Delhi. We talked to him about his work related to Transgender righ... Read More...
The Politics of Section 377, IPC (An Excerpt from the book ‘Criminal Love? Queer Theory, Culture, and Politics in India’)
While we were certainly willing to broaden our support base by building coalitions with other groups such as the feminists and the Dalits, it was they who kept away from us, possibly because our cause had to do with sex.
What it is like to be a Lesbian in Kashmir
The most critical problem facing lesbians in Kashmir is the way society simply refuses to recognize them and tries to silence their existence.
Protest Held in Kashmir to Demand Transgender Rights
A sit in protest was held by the transgender community of Kashmir at Press Colony, Srinagar on 13th May against non-implementation of NALSA judgement in Jammu and Kashmir and disregard of transgender rights in the state.
J&K State Budget Makes Provisions For Transgender People, Free SRS, Benefits of BPL and Monthly Pension Promised
Every transgender in the state shall be treated as living under BPL (Below Poverty Line), unless stated otherwise. They would be entitled to all the benefits under the BPL scheme, including cheap food-grains, LPG, electricity connections etc.
PIL Filed in J&K High Court Demanding Rights for Transgender People in the State
The PIL has sought social, economical and political inclusion and rehabilitation of the transgender community in Jammu and Kashmir, and their recognition as a marginalised and vulnerable section of the society.
Book Review : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
TMOUH is primarily a story of margins and marginalized; the ones who are ‘misfit’ for the soceity, the dunya as Anjum rightly called it, where hegemonic majoritarian politics make identities like being Queer, Woman, Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim, Kashmiri, Drug Addict, Syrian Christian, Poor and Uneducated the easy target of unbridled and insatiable hatred.
THE VISIBILITY CAMPAIGN: Faizal’s Story
My gender and sexuality are very important to what makes me the way I am. However, I am sick of being discriminated against
Love Story gone Awry behind Murder of Youth in Srinagar, claims Police
Jammu & Kashmir Police claim to have solved the murder of a 21-year old youth in Srinagar that had led to protests.