The definition of queer friendship is different for everyone but it must find a common ground.It cannot be limited to being a mere lifestyle/relationship choice.
Tag: Brahmanical patriarchy
An Epistolary Poem to Patriarchs
This poem is addressed to All those patriarchal pigs and crackbrained clerics Who use the whip of male power to punish dissenting women. You keep asking women to stop …
Liberate and Let Liberate: A Queertopia
Being queer is not just an identity, but rather a powerful phenomenon that centres on a person’s agency to self-determine. Queerness is resistance and rebellion
Revisiting Nangeli, and the Recasting of Oppressive History
Nangeli's story is about caste- based violence, but history writers continuously ignore the original context and imbue the folklore with borrowed Western ideas of modesty.
Sister-in-Sorrow
A poem on the struggles of women in a world that has privileged men for thousands of years.
My Father Wants A Hindu Rashtra. He’s Now Become A Troll
As my father expresses his unending support for the Modi government, I see the same apathy in his eyes that has defined the response of Indian lawmakers to the …
Identity, Mental Health and the State: Being the Wife of a Political Prisoner
Journalist Prashant Kanojia, arrested for allegedly sharing a morphed post on Twitter, finally got bail last week after spending two months in jail.
The Secret of the Gol Roti
A poem on young girl growing up to discover the patriarchal connotations of marriage.
Women Against CAA, NRC: Breaking the Patriarchy From Within
To the women fighting oppressive regimes – both in their internal and external worlds – know that we are here and we see you.