A Married Woman: Manju Kapur
Manju Kapur’s second novel, A Married Woman, begins with the following line “Astha was brought up properly, as befits of a woman, with large supplements of fear”. Astha’s parents are …
LGBTQ Movies
2 Essential Reasons Why Pride Matters
Gay Pride is a series of exciting events that happen in small and big cities all over the world to commemorate and celebrate being gay in a world that’s traditionally …
A Happy Movie for the Happiest Season
The Christmas movie is a hallmark of Western Hollywood cinema. Netflix has a whole universe of these, by the way, if you find you like them. The Christmas movie has …
We Are Each Other’s Family – a review of Uncle Frank, a movie
*Uncle Frank* is a movie that deserved a big screen theatre release. It is a movie to watch, with your friends, with allies and the family of your heart – …
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Your idea of gender is so fragile, all a man has to do is wear eyeliner to break it
The Paurashpur trailer dropped on December 7th, revealing an orgy of sexual violence against women, hints of queer desire, Milind Soman wearing jewellery (SHOCK, HORROR!) and also carrying a sword (cognitive dissonance, …
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Write With AYA, LGBTQ Stories. Part 2
To celebrate Pride Month i.e. June 2020, at AYA, we organised a writing competion on the Sheroes platform. Here are the LGBTQ stories, expressions and words of solidarity, which were submitted …
10 Best LGBTQ Movies of All Time 2020
Movies teach us how to view others—and how to view ourselves. This has been truly evident in how the film has depicted queer characters from its earliest days as a …