Have you attended queer film screenings or film festivals? Today, there are many festivals that celebrate LGBTQIA+ cinema from across the world. For #RewindingPride this week, let’s go back and talk about one of the first queer film festivals in India. 1/n

This is not an 'interview' this is a Modi press release newsweek.com/2024/04/19/exc…

Growing up in northern India, journalist Ankur Paliwal (Ankur Paliwal) found the media's portrayal of queer individuals troubling. queerbeat is filling that gap in coverage.

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We are soooo excited to be a part of this amazing cohort put together by Asian Dispatch DataLEADS !
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New from the series I have been editing: As anti-LGBTQ rhetoric rises in Kenya, Jackson Okata spent weeks speaking to trans and intersex people about how they have to routinely bribe police, healthcare providers & landlords just to get by in the country. edition.cnn.com/interactive/as…

This is ahmazing!!! Congratulations Amruta Byatnal 🎉🎉

New from As Equals: the story of one woman's journey to get a body to match her gender identity.

Not trans or non-binary people feel they need surgery, but for some, gender dysphoria can take a heavy mental toll edition.cnn.com/interactive/as…
Story by Mailee Osten-Tan, edited by Ankur Paliwal

Of sensational media reporting and queer advocacy in the 80s!

Another queer history gem dug out by fabulous Anmol |ਅਨਮੋਲ| of queerbeat

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Tomorrow on queerbeat:

Why Access Intimacy Matters to Queer Disabled Folks

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Art by Mia Jose (linesbyjose on IG)

📢PART TWO of 'The costs of Reliance's wildlife ambitions' by m rajshekhar, OUT NOW!

Part 1 looked at Vantara's history and elephants. 🐘
Now we look at other animals and what it has taken to get so many of them so fast. 🦛 🦜🐒🦘🦌

Full story here:
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Part 2 of m rajshekhar's terrific investigation into Reliance's wildlife ambitions is now out. It has even more punch than Part 1 -- plus hippos! 🦛🦛🦛

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“People still perceive HIV only as a sexual disease. Many newborns r left in maternity hospitals right after their birth.”
My piece as Mercury Phoenix Trust HIV/AIDS Reporting Fellow Internews Health Journalism Network (HJN) hima moh
Thankyou Kathryn Cleary Ankur Paliwal Roman Gautam
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