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Intersex Rights

After relentless efforts of intersex activist Tamil Nadu government releases 2024 data on intersex births

As per a news report appearing in the Tamizh daily newspaper “Daily Thanthi”, the Tamil Nadu government has released, for the first time, the record of intersex births for the…

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January 6, 2025
Contemporary Trans History / Movement

Marking six years of the book burning protests against Nandini Krishnan’s Invisible Men

Six years ago, on January 10, 2019, the Socialist Students Union of Manipur (SSUM), ETA (Empowering Transgender Association) and Nupa Manba (transmen) and Nupi Manbi (transwomen) associations of Manipur conducted…

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December 27, 2024
Education / Research

One Nation One Subscription (ONOS): Dispossessing Ekalavya to feed Elsevier

Through what parliamentary process was a three-year outlay of 6000 crore of public money set aside to purchase academic subscription from global capitalist paywalled academic publishers? How and, more importantly,…

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December 10, 2024
Law

The SC sub-classification verdict not revolutionary, just majoritarian angst: A transgender review

(including a response to Anand Teltumbde’s proposed suppression of reservation benefits) Since the Supreme Court’s 6:1 verdict on sub-classification and “creamy layer” has come to pass there have been multiple…

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August 19, 2024
Law / Policy

Transgender students to get one-time free changes in educational documents in Tamil Nadu: Government Order

Further to a letter dated 29 February, 2024, submitted by trans person K Arun Karthick to the Higher Education Department, the Tamil Nadu government has now released an order dated…

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August 12, 2024
Mythology / Pop Culture

Not your Shikhandi: Eliminating Shikhandi for affirmative trans ideologies

I started working on this essay in 2020 but had to halt writing anything for a considerable period of time. Here I am sharing a slightly edited and expanded version…

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August 1, 2024
Health

Long-term (FTM/NB) hormone therapy: Some key concerns for discussion

The mainstream discussions around transgender healthcare in India has been around surgery – access, cost, perpetual discrimination, botched surgeries, experimentation. Hormone replacement therapies are an equally important area of right…

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July 14, 2024
Pop Culture

A transgender review of Tamizh movie ‘Super Deluxe’ (2019)

Spoiler alert: If you haven't watched it yet, you can watch the film before or after reading, depending on whether you like spoilers or not. The movie ‘Super Deluxe’ released…

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July 8, 2024
Law / Research

Eviscerative equality and (the need for) positive discrimination laws

[This paper was submitted, out of competition, via email dated 24.6.2024, to the 11th Annual Conference 2024 of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination to underscore the issues…

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July 5, 2024
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