Pride Month: “Why be normal when you can be Special?”

Pride Month: “Why be normal when you can be Special?”

This thirst for justice is etched in me since my teenagerhood. I cannot stand inequality and injustice. These imbalances in our system made me aware that not all individuals are treated equally and enjoy their fundamental human rights entirely. Since 2013, I fought...
Why is Pride month still significant in 2021?

Why is Pride month still significant in 2021?

On a hot summer’s night in New York on June 28, 1969, the police raided the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, the United States. This was a catalyst to the existing discrimination and ostracization faced by LGBTQ people. The raid evolved rapidly into a protest,...
International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

Little tippy toes through the many years growing up; the gender lines blurred – getting called by the aunts as “my little girl”; wearing the high heels of mom’s oversized shoes, getting decked up in the fancy dresses of big sister, or the lipsticks savagely adoring...
I-Story: Velani

I-Story: Velani

I am Velani, aged 27 years old and working in the NGO sector for 3 years now. As young as being 8 years old, I knew that I was born in the wrong body. Though being biologically a boy, I always felt attracted by boys and friendlier with girls. My parents even inquired...

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