All hail the frontline worker Come rain, come shine, come covid, come lockdown, come unlock… the NGO field worker has been out there. The work that they have done and the weight that they pulled in the midst of a global crisis has been beyond tremendous.Governments declared a host of services as ‘essential’ but did not guarantee access to...
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(Click here to download the full report) Over the past few months of the pandemic & lockdown, the frontline NGO worker or the field worker has become a lifeline for marginalized communities across the country. Even as Governments deemed certain services as ‘essential’, access to the most to these services was limited to privileged communities....
Read moreDear Amazing & Lovely People, This past weekend, you got together online, cupped your hands into a collective megaphone & broadcast against institutionalized, algorithmic homo/trans-negativity. And you actually did it. You took it down. A quick chronology for those who came in late: Last week, we put out our podcast ‘The Due Normal‘ featuring queer affirmative...
Read moreSo we recorded a podcast on “Conversion Therapy” and the guests mentioned how easy it was to find doctors and counselors who offered the same in India. We decide to give it a try. It took us all but 30 seconds to find this page. A full roster of self-proclaimed Doctors specializing in Sexual Orientation...
Read moreJune is Pride Month… and this year, it’s got the color of rebellion, the noise of rage, smells like red earth & rain, grips you with the full force of love and has the lingering flavor of a new dawn. Welcome to a very special edition of The Coop in which we register the protest – “The discourse is too damn binary!” ...
Read moreTrigger Warning: Suicide, Queer/Trans-Negativity Aarambh India · Conversation on Conversion Therapy On the 12th of May, 2020, 21 year old queer student Anjana Harish killed herself in Goa, India. In a video testimony recorded prior to her death, she described the violations she had to suffer in ‘conversion therapy’ centers’ that her parents admitted...
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