the draconian trans bill has become an act in india on the international trans day of visibility. the people responsible for this will forever be remembered for their crimes against humanity. our collective fight is far from over, but our collective grief is just as valid rn.

A few years ago I was approached by a TV channel to do an entertainment industry focussed talk show. On the very first day for the interview I walked in on about 4-5 men going through my Instagram profile casted on the TV on the wall. They quickly closed it but - ick. Next I go

the fact that there is no mass Western response to the policy is making me feel insane. this policy is the most explicit act of institutionalized genocide since Cambodia, if not the Holocaust itself.

Just so we're clear, Israel is now the first state to have an ethnicity-based death penalty since Nazi Germany.

This is how you deal with a threat to humanity.

1300 doctors had written to the President to withhold assent to the Trans Bill, a day before the President signed it. Hundreds of lawyers, Thousands of community members had also written to the President, in vain.

what doesn't kill you makes you cry on your birthday and even during your meals and even during travelling in a public transport and even during holidays and even during a sunset and even during gazing a sky full of stars and even when you're alone and even when you're not.

Not even an exaggeration when I say that all sanitation workers should be paid an insane amount of money. The risks they take to keep our cities free from filth and disease??

Sylvia Plath

Apartheid.

Women working at UP CM Helpline 1076 and staging protest near 1090 Chauraha in Lucknow, demanding salary hike and reduction in workload, were detained by the police.

Indian Media be like

people out here moralfagging over that video of tan if you had engaged with the protests and movement in any meanigful way youd know how much theyve done to organize it all and just how generous they have been to the media weeks of explaining your humanity to strangers will tire

Are you people genuinely illiterate? Comma before and makes a massive difference in the meaning of sentences. I love my parents, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. I love my parents, Taylor Swift, and Travis Kelce. You can easily see the difference in meaning.

this is why women’s orgs, Left and student groups’ working with younger communities and children feels so important. We’re in a freefall, and the monied can study abroad and escape all this, while scores of other young women are being radicalised and will be most affected by it.

As long as people get to watch Dhurandhar and dance on mosques what is the problem?

In my school in Agra, UC boys used 'safai karamchari' as a term of abuse, along with the more explicit casteist expletives. People who write these long posts about public filth as civic sense or status issue without so much as mentioning caste are either very ignorant or frauds.

"everything French sounded like porn to me" - Alejandro Zambra

Citizens being murdered daily by a corrupt, apathetic state.