I survive as a proud queer person - trans, gay, and more because Babasaheb stood by me. He fought for my rights without hesitation. He said it's normal to be gay in court. I don't get this kinda validation even at home.
So overwhelmed & teary eyed RN. Jai Bhim 💙 Namo Buddhay 🙏🏼
This beautiful painting of Babasaheb Ambedkar made by my Ambedkarite friend on Instagram. They're a beautiful and phenomenal artists. I'll ask them for permission and credit them here. Jai Bhim 💙
And Caste? this is the same issue I have with people wanting female pandits of queer friendly pandits (STILL BRAHMIN) for the weddings. Why does the Indian wokeness always stop at caste? why are people so bee stung to speak about caste?
I love that Chennai pride has a splendid anticaste vibe. I love that Periyar 's efforts towards Suya Mariyadai are recognised.
Jai Bhim 💙 Vazhga Periyar 🖤 Lal salaam ❤️
I don't want to go to a pride where I'm not allowed to say Jai Bhim 💙
Babasaheb Ambedkar is more validating to me than my own parents. He has fought for my rights in court. I exist because he was.
In my darkest moments in 2023, Babasaheb & the Buddha gave me strength and resilience to hold up & fight on when I thought I was better off in the 🪦
I am sharing this pic by the artistic
@nabihaiderali
to share my strength with you. Jai Bhim 💙 Wish you light and healing ✨
harassment by Brother in law for queerness. TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ Transphobia, misinformation, use of slurs, Homophobia, intrusive questions about genitalia and more
@LRamakrishnan
@chennaipride
Now that Gayatri Ranjini are trending, for all the worst reasons, here is some scoop.
This was a tweet liked and shared by the two.
confession by an LGBTQ Carnatic singer.
@guppystweet
@TheBluePen25
@nrithyapillai
please amplify 💪🏼
the homosexuality validation scene in English Vinglish even now gets me teary eyed, but things I notice about Shashi (sridevi's character),
far more progressive than even her daughter who's elitist.
Defies the need for education to be progressive.
To those who aren't Indian, I say Jai Bhim 💙 because Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar - who fought against the caste system, patriarchy and queerphobia, and was a human way ahead of his times - his first name was Bhimrao. I say Jai Bhim because he gives me the guts to face all odds.
I feel all the chef's I watch on YouTube are Savarna.
Sanjeev Kapoor
Venkatesh Bhat
Shilpa Shetty
cook with Parul
Nitin Bhatiya
Harpal Singh
Vikas Khanna
and more.
I feel it's unhealthy that every industry is so dominated by them that there are so many unheard voices.
Sanghi queers - esp. gay men want LGBTQ+ pride to be limited to "love is love". As someone grey ace who knows love is far more complex than that, I'm sick of it honestly. Their love shames polyamory as well. Main point, pride cannot be purely LGBTQ+ centric. Why?
Please get this account suspended for promoting LGBTQ genocide. true hindu culture this is. Killing people who you think you can't share the planet with. Looks like Brahmins learnt nothing from the whole KP exodus incident.
I know Gauri Malur and I also know she's not Dalit because we were in the same profession. And I also know what company she runs in Goa, social Media analysis and all, and who her clients are. I am saying this because I know her caste credentials on PAPER.
Ohh yes Dr, in ISCKON (vizag) that claimed to feed poor kids (the saviour complex) a team of nutritionists from abroad examined the food and found low nutrition and contaminated ingredients. So much for doing "SoCiAl SeRvIcE). when caught they played Hinduphobia card
@sakie339
While children in government schools are given boiled rice and watery 'sambar' without onion and garlic by the same organisation !!!
Only one 'small' side effect is the rampant malnutrition in government/aided school children
#adjustmadi
Delhi pride has just the anti 2ïönï5t energy we'd want. Loving it.
Right wing queers can have VDs for all I care. Not even sorry for being rude.
The kids of Palestine writing their names on their hands for posthumous recognition of their bodies have my heart and love.
Why do I dislike Brahmins? It happened because of my own family extended by society.
1. the Brahmins surrounding me saw caste in everything: food, clothing, language & more. They would use casteist slurs at me for eating eggs as an underweight child & wearing batik print clothes
A person wearing a "Stop Bombing Palestine 🇵🇸" t-shirt, holding a Pride flag 🏳️🌈 ran on the Cricket World Cup Final ground in India. The channel turned away the cameras and played ads. Kudos to this individual’s bravery. Hope the Indian government doesn’t put him behind bars.
If I get
@thenewsminute
inclusive newsroom fellowship, they'd be rescuing me from a very very dark space in my life. I'm looking for ways to keep myself occupied for every wakeful second which keeps me happy and thriving. I just hope it clicks.
So important good news in detail)
I have landed a teaching job (Hope long term) in a Cambridge affiliated School. I teach global citizenship, Global perspectives, English, Philosophy for 11th and Humanities (social sciences). I would like to keep the school name under wraps.
If Subramanian Swamy is entitled to his opinion by saying homosexuality is against Hindutva and needs a cure, then even Periyar is entitled to his opinion in saying that "between a snake and a baman, kill a baman".
When I came out of the closet at home last year, my dad's BP was 200/110 almost. He was like, "my capillaries are gonna burst". (Sure, Jan). He hit himself also. He saw it as a personal failure that I was queer.
I complete 28 in 4 hours. (Nov 1st). I am glad I started reading Dr. Ambedkar, Savitri Bai Phule, Mahatma Phule, Periyar, Fatema Sheikh, Marx, Engels Alexandra Kollontai, Anuradha Gandhy and a few others exactly 5 years ago. on my 23rd birthday.
Let's say
#samesexmarriages
are legalised tomorrow. How many of you gay men are gonna continue fighting for trans rights and help hault the faulty
#transact2019
and the highly unhelpful
#transmanualncert
? Or are you gonna say "we got out pound of flesh, so LG✂️BTQIAP+"?
My first day of work in my new school.
People ask me many questions - why did you teach?
Why did you choose a small school to teach?
If you joined IIT your pay package may have been some 7 digit number
Parents - Always go to an unreserved doctor.
Me - Well I did go to Dr. ES Krishnamurthy who says homosexuality is a mental disorder. He even wrote an article on it. I also went to Bharati Visweshvaran who openly said my orientation is curable. So much for being "meritorious"?
I mean your rhetoric forces exactly that issue-- its like you constantly forget about guys like Mack Beggs....he didn't want to be fighting girls, yall forced that on him.
Today is my second coming-out anniversary :) I came out to my parents today in 2022.
It's also Marsha P Johnson's birthday 🎂
Happy birthday Mommy Marsha 🎉
No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us ✊🏻
My favorite form of serendipity that I came out on her bday.
@AkiretaHK
Adivasi refers to indigenous tribes in India and this Goddess Kali was once their goddess. they called her Shabari - the goddess of hunting. She was far from Brahminical purity politics and was associated with all things brahmins abhor - nudity, sexuality, blood, meat
Indian families favour creepy paedo uncles and cis het men in the family over LGBTQ kids.
In India, casteism> common sense.
More food is wasted in rituals than given to hungry kids.
Isn't safe for neurodivergent people, LGBTQ people and caste Oppressed people. And women also. I don't think it's safe for men either. It's safe for people in power.
I'm an Indian
@Katrafiy
and I love seeing you talk about queer Indians, esp the Hijra community.
Trans women are women
trans men are men
Non binary folks are beyond binaries of Barbie and Ken.
Happy international women's day 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Shock your followers w epic facts:
- Diagnosed (now cured of) abdominal Tuberculosis. Had lost 30+ kg and underwent surgery.
- School first in Tamil
- Mechie too. College senior of Kaush!
My mother taught me to put a Pilayar suzhi at the top of a page. It's an உ with two lines below, a sign of Ganesh. I put it and kept failing in my exams in 7 and 8th and some of 9th. I'd pass finals just by enough marks to go to the next grade. victim of queerphobic bullying.
@KaranfromMars
@Vignesh50880630
@EyesGleamMean
Pride isn't for kids. sorry. kids are optional. Kink shaming isn't an option. Keep your respectability and doormat assimilation politics to yourself. It isn't gonna get you any validation at the end of the day
Under J Jayalalitha, the trans community's per month ration was reduced to 1500 from 3500 under DMK. Under DMK, they were allowed to use the woman's compartment in Porakkum rail.
They didn't need to pay for bus tickets.
Jayalalithaa was Transphobic and Homophobic.
Most oppressor caste parents prefer sons and not daughters because they find Brahminical patriarchy easier to pass on through cis het men, tho it certainly doesn't spare women. It's just that the woman "may" ask questions while the man won't because it benefits him (observation)
To the LGBTQAP+ community:
NEVER tell Intersex people who've been erased, operated without their consent to "cheer up, coz your birth is useful to prove sex isn't binary". It's true intersex conditions prove that biological sex is also found on a spectrum and isn't binary.
fighting solely on pronouns and making it the most important factor that'll empower you is stupidity. We have bigger battles to fight and trust me, pronouns aren't one of them. They make the least difference to trans folks who have bigger battles to fight, like for survival
Patriotism is a privileged emotion. If you can get educated safely, get a dream job, marry whosoever you like, have kids, have family, don't have to fight for any rights - and you don't mind being denied any of these rights also - then you'll automatically be patriotic.
@TheBluePen25
They were both anti capitalism and hierarchy in society, so I think their ideology can segue well together. But if one had to choose, it has to be Babasaheb. 💙
So when I was 5 years old, I witnessed Casteism for the first time extended family I saw that a child my age is given water in a dhonnai (cup made of dry leaves) which couldn't even hold the water. when asked why the steel tumblrs of the house are used for "Naivedhyam" itseems.
@Chinmayi
@iyampettai_
Idk if you're aware of this
1. Jayalalithaa reduced ration for trans people from 3500 in DMK era to 1500. I work with the trans community on ground you got to give me this.
2. She disallowed trans women from getting on the woman's compartment in local trains.
How did Periyar help me? As a child I loved Ganesh a lot. 6-7 years old. And the "Ohh my friend Ganesha" added. Even Krishna (I related, love for Dairy). I liked Kali and Durga, Parvati and Shiva. Ganesha the most. It wasn't even prayer. I saw them as extended family. Very tender
@YesWeExistIndia
I see this very differently,
@YesWeExistIndia
.
Prateek Aryan is a medico who is anti reservation and says he came out of merit. Look at his tweets and comment on Aneesh Bhagat's post. if this person is disallowed from practicing medicine, then it'll also help the LGBTq Community